The Claw of the Conciliator – Part 2

Shelved By Genre

Ranged Touch

Education, Books, Arts

4.9 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 184 minutes

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We talk about Chapters X – XIX of The Claw of the Conciliator, the second book of The Book of the New Sun. Content warnings for this episode include: cannibalism, transphobia and homophobia, suicide, pedophilia, imprisonment and torture, misogyny. Next episode we read through the end of The Claw of the Conciliator. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support… Continue reading

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0:13.0	Oh Oh Welcome to Shelf by genre, a show about types of literature in the worlds they imagine.
0:33.6	This season, we're reading Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun.
0:36.2	In this episode is about chapters 10 through 19 of The Claw of the Conciliator.
0:41.9	For a list of content warnings, please check the episode description.
0:44.6	I am Cameron, and with me are the seventh generation prisoners, Michael and Austin.
0:50.9	The summer of agency continues.
0:53.5	Yeah.
0:54.1	Does consuming the flesh memory of your ex shape how you write your own story?
0:59.0	I'm just going to consume these delicious sweet treats and coffee.
1:03.0	Do we not just play the game of surrender when someone detains us acting as if we have no options when the magistrate asks us to come with them when in fact a whole range of agency remains still aiming all my agency at the sweet treats and coffee is society not just some sort of prison built into the depths of an office complex.
1:30.8	I think bumblebees are as big as pigs.
1:36.3	Tell me of the big bumble pig.
1:46.7	This is a wild, this was a wild reading to do because I was like, oh, we're going to talk about the El Zabomile.
1:54.2	Like, and that's, that's the big thing. And then two other big things happen that are just different. And also just, Jean goes off on some fantasy writing shit in the middle that is wild. So we got a lot to talk about today.
2:02.4	There's a lot. Yes, there's a huge amount in this episode, part of episode, whatever it is.
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