<div>>I was thinking the same thing. I mean there is some violence in<br>>there, but nothing more than you'd find in any of his other books.<br>>Heck, he had an executioner for a protaganist. So what did you find
<br>>offensive David?</div>
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<div>I don't think that David is going out on a limb, at all. Severian</div>
<div>may have been a torturer, but in the end he took off his fuligin and</div>
<div>disbanded the torturer's guild. </div>
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<div>While "The Death Of Dr. Island," a violent young man murders a</div>
<div>young girl and, far from being punished, the good Dr. deems it</div>
<div>was a vital therapeutic step and declares the offender cured. </div>
<div>It's one of Wolfe's better early stories, but certainly one of his</div>
<div>most brutal and disturbing. I don't find it offensive, but I can</div>
<div>easily see how some might.</div>
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