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Say hello to our special little aryan princess! Can an uwu baby bwain widdle gworl be a legitimate love interest? Apparently yes! Does this have sinister implications? Of course! Join us as we read chapters 25 & 26 of Shadow of the Torturer and get into some truly baffling narrative choices as well as some even more baffling diatribes on women. Later, we turn once more to reddit to understand...

What awaits Severian in the Garden of Endless Sleep? Join us as we read chapters 22, 23, & 24 of Shadow of the Torturer. While Severian cruises the Lake of Birds for hot GILFS, we attempt to untangle Severian's twisty family tree, the philosophical implications of the observer effect, and Terminus Est (which has become stuck in some water weeds). As we do that, we also finally meet Dorcas and...

We're going on a field trip! Join us as we read chapters 20 & 21 of Shadow of the Torturer and visit Father Inire's mysterious and fantastical Botanic Gardens. Inside, we'll encounter venomous beasts, otherworldly mirror-fish, and racism! Later, we take a deep dive into who and what, exactly, Father Inire is supposed to be. As always, we turn to the eternal wisdom of Reddit to find out. (Also,...

What happens when you let a hot young woman draw you in to a dangerous drag race across a crowded city? You kick off a highly coincidental sequence of events which eventually lead to the end of the world as we know it! Join us as we read chapters 18 & 19 of Shadow of the Torturer and tag along with one of our favorite characters as she turns this plot upside down. Ft. an all-time classic freud...

Uh oh, somebody's horny, and his name starts with S! :/ In which Severian promises to meet up with Dr. Talos & Co. later, but totally bails (#relatable). Don't worry, he finds a much more interesting character to follow around! Join us as we read chapters 16 & 17 of Shadow of the Torturer and examine how Severian's ~unquenchable thirst~ relates to Wolfe's depictions of race and gender in t...

In this freewheeling discussion of chapters 15 & 16 of Shadow of the Torturer , we and Severian begin to explore the wide world outside the Torturer's Guild. On the way we encounter a big anime sword, Wolfe's disgust for innkeepers and poor people, a giant named Baldanders, and too many allusions. Come for the weird old songs, stay for the extended digression on Moby Dick . Brought to you by A...

Who would you cast in your dream Book of the New Sun movie? While we answer this unimaginably difficult question, Severian and The Guild have some difficult choices of their own to make. Join us as we read chapters 12 & 13 of Shadow of the Torturer and get into some of our favorite chapters thus far! Also, apologies for the weird inexplicable background thumping in this episode?! Thankfully it...

What does it mean to choose to be a torturer? In which the hosts attempt to answer this question, because Wolfe sure ain't! Join us in a meandering, loosely structured discussion of chapters 10 & 11 of Shadow of the Torturer including extended digressions about The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas and Julian of Norwich. Brought to you by AD & Will. Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon...

Is there anything sexier than starting a new philosophical inquiry? Join us as we read chapters 7, 8, and 9 of Shadow of the Torturer and tackle humanity's biggest questions: Is religion only cool and rad if it is inherently contradictory? Can cops be sympathetic? Does Severian f@$&? Later, we discuss The Knight and why Will takes a "guilty until proven innocent" approach to Wolfe's depictions...

In which the hosts, for the first time in their lives, are disappointed by a trip to the library. Join us as we read chapters 5 & 6 of Shadow of the Torturer. Thankfully, for those listeners who endure til the end, we have other books which might intrigue and delight! Included within: Mervin Peake and a tortured sexy man. Our Read Another Book segment is named in homage of one of our favorite...

In which the hosts meet a really cool dog! Join us as we read chapters 3 & 4 of Shadow of the Torturer and you too can meet this really cool dog! Then we scour the internet's finest marketplace of ideas, Reddit, for theories about what the heck is going on with Valeria. Brought to you by AD & Will. Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon Check out Phillament Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

In which the hosts meet our protagonist, Severian. Who is he? Why is he running around in a graveyard in the middle of the night? What even is a torturer's apprentice, exactly? Are we actually enjoying this book?! Join us as we read the first two chapters of Shadow of the Torturer, and later investigate the mysterious Castle of the Otter to learn from the world's foremost Gene Wolfe expert...the m...

In which the hosts attempt to justify themselves and this endeavor to the universe, with the help of some eternal wisdom from Neil Gaiman. Brought to you by AD & Will. Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon Check out Phillament Sources: "How to Read Gene Wolfe" by Neil Gaiman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.