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

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The Gjol Is the River of Death

If we're careful readers and we're able to divorce themselves from the action, we might start to question why do people have to come into the graveyard at night to protect their, the dead? That hasn't been explicitly stated. We get another passage here where he's much more explicit. It is my nature, my joy and my curse to forget nothing. He talks and gives a very specific description of the moments that evening as he's walking up the hill with these volunteer bodyguards,. literal bodyguards.

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