![]() ![]() There are many strange places, but there is no orienting yourself in it, or dispelling the mystery of these places with a name and icon. Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series isn't one of those fantasy series that has a map on the first page. ![]() No one truly obeys unless he will do the unthinkable in obedience no one will do the unthinkable save we. In all the lofty order of the body politic, the pyramid of lives that is immensely taller than any material tower, taller than the Bell Keep, taller than the Wall of Nessus, taller than Mount Typhon, a pyramid that stretches from the Autarch on the Phoenix Throne to the most humble clerk grubbing for the most dishonorable trader-a creature lower than the lowest beggar-we are the only sound stone. And the secret is only that we torturers obey. ![]() But I will tell one now, because what I did that night on Lake Diuturna cannot be understood without understanding it. I had not thought, when I began this record of my life, to reveal any of the secrets of our guild that were imparted to me by Master Palaemon and Master Gurloes just before I was elevated, at the feast of Holy Katharine, to the rank of journeyman. ![]()
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