ReReading Wolfe

tBotNS 1:24 The Flower of Dissolution - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 24, "The Flower of Dissolution"

Severian, Agia, Dorcas, and Hildegrin cross the Lake of Birds. Severian and Dorcas both pick flowers.

Links:

  • Sean Michael Robinson on Beatrix Potter of the New Sun
  • Mike Bennewitz on Hildegrin's persistent presence at resurrections
  • Sean Michael Robinson on the coincidence of Severian happening upon Dorcas's body
  • Mike Farrar's theory about the voices Severian hears on the Lake of Birds
  • Fillipo di Paola on Agia's peacock print dress and the Islamic Garden of Eden story
  • Wolfe on the tBotNS being about "a man who was raised to do terrible things and who reforms himself from inside” 
  • Michael Andre-Driussi's new article on Ultan's Library about the timeline of the Autarchy
  • Redditor Harshael on Gene Wolfe's female characters

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