![]() ![]() ![]() The Alcalde (Mayor) of Saltus, with an eye to the commercial aspect of things, has made the two executions the focus of a week-long fair. The woman has been accused of murdering her husband and children (though after she dies her rival admits to having framed her), the man is an agent of Vodalus. Severian has been engaged to carry out two executions, one woman, one man. Talos’ troupe, most especially from Dorcas, though before the end of this volume we will learn that at first he headed in the same direction as Baldanders, albeit not at the giant’s instance. Severian has become separated from the rest of Dr. His only companion is Jonas, the middle-aged man with a metal hand encountered in the tunnel beneath the wall where Shadow ended. An unmeasured period of time has elapsed, and Severian has travelled an unspecified distance – far enough at any rate that the Wall is no longer visible, though it must be remembered that we are now beyond Nessus, and into the forests and hills, approaching the mountains – to the town of Saltus. In Wolfean fashion, the abrupt end of the first book does not lead directly into the second. ![]() The Claw of the Conciliator followed a year later. Trout Nation – Your One-Stop Procrastination Stop.To Read or not To Read: Denny O’Neill’s The Question.The Infinite Jukebox: Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel’s ‘Understand’. ![]()
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