tBotNS 1:18 The Destruction of the Altar - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun

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:

• 4:3 Time and Beyond Time
• 4:4 Good Infection

• Samuel R. Delaney about the blow up over Gene Wolfe's teaching methods at Clarion
• Mike Bennewitz shares his theory about elevation and the hierarchy of Severian's advesaries 
• Charles Gillingham stirs it up about the First Severian on FB
• Bruce Pennington vs Mandelorian?
• Gene Wolfe Fan Fiction

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• Clip from "I Am the Bandersnatch" from "The Hunting of the Snark"
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