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Chapter 37 - Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch

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The Autarky Is Not the Autark

Yada is particularly nervous about the girl on the boat and wondering whether or not she's safe. Love is a long labor for torturers, Yada would become a torturer as all men are bound by the contempt of wealth without which a man is less than a man. So in there, he's acknowledging the presence of this feeling and this drive toward torture and pain within humanity. Oh, men destroy the women they love, right?

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