/lit/ - Literature

>>17303124

Finished shadow and claw and going to start sword of the lictor. Still very strange (not bad) and lots of questions. Severian remains a very weird guy. It's like every time he makes a commitment/swears allegiance to someone and he later bails/wants to bail and ends up fulfilling his previous agreements by happenstance. To be 100% honest I'm still not sure if there is actual magic in this universe or if everything can be linked to science (either real or fantasy), though I'm leaning toward science-based explanations for everything. Certain things like Dr. Talos's projector and use of solar panels should be incredible pieces of (past) technology but they are mentioned like it's nothing. It also seems like Severian is a "chosen one"-type rather than a random guy who got caught up in all this. I assume most questions would be answered with "keep reading"