
General Discussion - Gene Wolfe's The Claw of the Conciliator
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Sevarion's Obesity to Authority
He learns so much but doesn't learn how to take responsibility. He's still feeling that guilt he still needs absolution of it but he won't accept responsibility for messing up. Once he leaves saltis and is kidnapped by vodelis he makes no attempt to return to saltis and finish out his duties. That's another example of the book confusing the issue right where does sevarion stand in terms of being his own person or being an agent of literally anyone who crosses his path? It took one good conversation with possibly some psychic convincing involved in it as well but all it took was a short conversation with an undying to be like yeah i could i could call it with the
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