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>>23302194
I don't want Severian to save the world, I'm quite quite happy for him to just wander around but you can't just teehee so random between ideas.

I loved Jack Vances dying earth but this isn't remotely close in feeling. If it was a Vance book, Severian would have performed for the antuarchs or whatever with the doctor and the giant and found out thecyla is still alive or something interesting.

>>23302758
Is there really a secondary layer to the first 150 pages? The only thing so far I thought was clever was the painting of the man in armor on a deserted land with a pole and cloth (Pic related).