![]() I was the last Autarch of our Commonwealth, and as such the only legitimate ruler of this world when we called it Urth.īut what a disease this writing business is! A few years ago (if time retains any meaning), I wrote in my cabin on the ship of Tzadkiel, re-creating from memory the book I had composed in a clerestory of the House Absolute. By my foes, who bred like flies, and like flies were spawned from the corpses that strewed my battlefields, Severian the Torturer. ![]() ![]() By my soldiers, of whom I once commanded a great many, though never enough, Severian the Great. By my friends, of whom there were never very many, I was called Severian the Lame. Let me describe then, to no one and nothing, just who I am and what it is that I have done to Urth. Surely it is absurd but I am not-I will not be-so absurd myself as to suppose that this will ever find a reader, even in me. ![]() HAVING CAST ONE MANUSCRIPT INTO THE SEAS OF TIME, I now begin again. ![]()
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