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Introduction and Chapter 1 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer

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The Last Accounting Loses Nothing

The dialogue when it hits is very formalized, not nearly as much so as in vance. But here we do have a formalized language that again is a signifer of older stories, not future story. At the bottom of the first page get a very important little aside. Just as all that appears imperishable tends towards its own destruction, those moments that at the time seem the most fleeting recreate themselves. The key phrase I want to pull out there is, which in the final accounting loses nothing.

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