ReReading Wolfe

tBotNS 1:21 The Hut in the Jungle - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun

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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.  

Links:

  • Craig posts a bibliography of Wolfe criticism 
  • Father Inire, Lewis Carroll, and Rubber Bend 
  • Baudrillard, Domnina as a horror story, catoptromanchy and Agia/Agillus
  • Jonathan Goodwin on captoptramancy
  • Father Inire's mirrors and Star Trek 
  • Wolfe as a non-Star Trek fan 
  • Plato, Socrates, Apollodorus, and Glaucon 
  • Why the Pelerines's robes are red
  • "The Conciliator was a man: Severian the Lictor"
  • Thecla's Religion 
  • The Forged Excruciation Orders Theory 
  • How did Wolfe choose Thecla's name 
  • The shape of the Botanical Gardens 
  • The Crystal Palace - London
  • The Crystal Palace - New York
  • Time, dreams, Severian’s memories, and the Cumaean

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  • Outro from "Concrete Jungle" by Marley and the Holmes Brothers
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