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Chapter 1 - Gene Wolfe's The Sword of the Lictor

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The Assis River in Ovid's Metamorphosis

Saverian writes, in the city below the lamps of the swarming shops were beginning to fill the valley of the Aziz with a yellow radiance. The flower symbolology that Dorkis has brought with her often putting the flowers in her hair still is raised up again here at this moment. Zavarian notes that he's in charge of a prison. And there are only about 1,600 people in this prison. This gives us a lot of context, too, that I don't want to lose - but it does give us a little insight into his character.

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