The Shadow of the Torturer, Timescape Book Club Edition, chapter 1, page 7.

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The Shadow of the Torturer, Timescape Book Club Edition, chapter 1, page 7.
Love it when the next books titles are casually mentioned. By the way, at this point I have ZERO idea of what any of this means, but okay, I'll find out.
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Severian
What if you were a brooding allegory of Christ and I was a resurrected teenage girl and we’re on a zaney sci-fi roadtrip that happened off screen?
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every time thecla comes up in severian’s mind like this I go crazy
Desperately to figure out what the actual fuck Gene Wolfe meant by “yellow-brown linen Simar”
tfw you die and then your memories & the essence of your being become trapped in your ex boyfriend via an alien cannibalism ritual & you can only live a shadowy half-life in his mind