The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 23, "Hildegrin"

Severian and Agia meet Dorcas and Hildegrin in the Garden of Endless Sleep. 

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• Old Man By the Gyoll

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 22, "Dorcas"

Severian and Agia go to the Garden of Endless Sleep. Severian meets his grandfather who is looking for Grandma 'Cas. Then Severian falls into the lake and has an underwater encounter. 

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• Cloisonné in wikipedia  

• Origin story and Pratchett's Library of the Unseen University

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Michael Swanwick, Nebula and Hugo award winner, talks about Gene Wolfe and his own writings.   

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Tor review of Shadows of the New Sun that contains Swanwick’s short story “The She-Wolf’s Hidden Grin”

"The Hagiography of St Dozois" by Michael Swanwick

"The Gardner Dozois You Didn’t Think You Knew" by Michael Swanwick

Tor review, “25 Years in the Making — City Under the Stars by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick”

"The Iron Dragon’s Daughter" by Michael Swanwick

"The Dragon’s of Babel" by Michael Swanwick

"Stations of the Tide" by Michael Swanwick 

“The Eyeflash Miracles” and “Tracking Song” are included in “The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories”

“The Ziggurat” is collected in “Strange Travelers”

Carol Emshwiller on Wikipedia

Jack Dann on Wikipedia

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 21, "The Hut in the Jungle"

Marc Aramini assists. In the Jungle Garden, Severian and Agia sit in a hut and listen to a conversation among the inhabitants.  

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• Craig posts a bibliography of Wolfe criticism 

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 20, "Father Inire's Mirrors"

Severian and Agia walk the Jungle Gardens as Severian tells the story of Domnina and Father Inire's mirrors. Also, we discuss Inire and Sancha's cat. It all wraps up at the hut in the Jungle.

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• Filippo Di Paola on the Adamnian Steps

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 19, "The Botanic Gardens"

Severian and Agia go to the Botanic Gardens discussing matters religious and historical. They visit the Sand Garden and then enter the Jungle Garden. 

Author and journalist, Fabio Fernandez, joins Craig and James for this chapter. Fabio has just completed a series for Tor.com entitled Rereading Wolfe. Nice title.

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• List of Fabio Fernandez's writings at Tor.com

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Severian and Agia take off for the Botanical Gardens. They get in a street race. They crash into the Cathedral of the Pelerines. The Claw goes missing.

Links:

• CS Lewis Discusses God and Time and the First, Second, and Third Persons of the Trinity in ways that, James thinks, are especially applicable to the First and Second Severian:

• Samuel R. Delaney about the blow up over Gene Wolfe's teaching methods at Clarion

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Severian meets Agilus in the rag shop. He gets a challenge to a duel. Agia agrees to take him to get the flower he'll need to fight it and give him tips.

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• Robert Borski's theory of Severian's family tree

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 16, "The Rag Shop"

Severian has breakfast with Baldanders and Talos and meets a skinny waitress. Then Severian bids Baldanders & Co fare-thee-well and encounters Agia in front of her rag shop.

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 15, "Baldanders"

Severian's first night on his own. He stops at an inn and gets an interesting bed partner.

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• The Decade-Long Quest For Shadow of the Colossus’ Last Secret

• DrEvil1380

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