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General Discussion - Gene Wolfe's The Claw of the Conciliator

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The Importance of Cultural Memory in Mythology

It's really confusing trying to figure out what his motivation are in doing that other than maybe he is trying to be subtle and not right attract even though he is making a persuasive argument. When he positions himself as wrong he does it in such a way that he can admit how wrong he was and push himself towards rightness quickly when he doesn't want to admit he's wrong like with yolenta he covers it up and minimizes it as much as he can right. A key aspect in the novel is this idea of a flawed cultural memory in mythology now certainly there's been a lot of talk about how this is the far future history is gone and memory is gone but then we do get

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