
Chapters 20 and 21 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
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Is There a Relationship Between Interstellar Travel and the Ancients?
Philip K. Jones: Father Inneri shows Damina an octagonal room with reflections off into infinity and they're seeing this fish like thing come into the bowl. He says that's what people thought for a long time and said with this false belief that creatures they summoned were ever present in the depths of the glass, we need not concern themselves. They were wrong. We know that. In time, they turned to a more serious question by what means can travel be affected when the point of departure is at an astronomical distance from a place of arrival. So he took, let's look at this fish up here and now goes to, there's a relationship here between this and interstellar travel
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