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Chapter XII Summary
Chapter XII Summary
The orders for Thecla's torture arrive just a couple of days after Severian is made an apprentice. After she is tortured, Severian gives her a knife so she can take her own life, and then turns himself in to Master Gurloes.
TERMINOLOGY
TERMINOLOGY
cataphracts (78.2/2) a soldier in full armor, typically chain mail.
anagnost (78.2/2) a reader, a prelector; one employed to read aloud; the reader of the lessons in church.
Marcellina (79.8/20) an optimate woman sent to the Matachin Tower for the crime of paying bravos to set fire to the house of her fiance's house. Her fiance was an officer.
dhow (80.4/41) a native vessel used on the Arabian Sea, generally with a single mast, and 150 to 200 tons burden.
POST READING THOUGHTS
POST READING THOUGHTS
81.0/50 The apparatus is the same torture machine from The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka.
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