
Chapters 18 and 19 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
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Severance's Death by Ritual Suicide
Severance has to go through this ritualistic way of getting himself killed. It doesn't land as solid with some of his actions because he is talking about how much he loves for her and how he wants her. The two weapons represent the two sides of that kind of conflict within a person's moral journey. And it's really cool that it comes out of this very tiny little part of Christiandom that Wolf has pulled out here"
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