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traveling mummer's troupe. Here the doubling that works through all the tales is with a silent auditor to the mummer's story, a man whom we learn is a teacher, a philosopher, a lover and supporter of the arts (a democratic minded prince, who has given up his title to pursue his intellectual work), and who has known the narrator over the same period, and has been his friend over the same twenty years — but has never met with or known till now the mummer's petty criminal friend.
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Granite,” is a short novel that basically tells of the many people trying to counterfeit Gorgik the Liberator throughout Nevèrÿon and to use a semblance of his project for their own ends.
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Liberator and bring him to heel as well as to distract the people from the “plague” that moves among them, the government
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Plagues and Carnivals” ), the parallels between the way Nevèrÿon handles its situation and the way current
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Barbarian genius Belham, dead a generation before, whose name is connected with many of the land's architectural wonders. Even as the Young Master learns how
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