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

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Saverian's Resurrection and Death

Where is the point when Saverian becomes a man? It's not when he saves Volus because his admiration of Volus is a very childlike kind of jealousy and desire. After this moment he sees himself as being in league with Vodilis, right? And this will lead to some extreme stuff later on. I mean, he starts the story here for this reason. This event is really important. But when you get past all the obfuscation, he's only doing it because he was a child in the moment and he was working on child motivations.

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