This is a locked chapterChapter 17.1: Confrontation(1)
About This Chapter
This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous line from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, in which he says, "A man's life is a living, breathing thing, a thing of which he is a part." In this passage, Shakespeare is referring to the fact that a man can be killed by anyone who encounters him, whether or not the man is a wordsmith. This is a reference to the emperor's ruling that
This is a locked chapterChapter 17.1: Confrontation(1)
About This Chapter
This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous line from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, in which he says, "A man's life is a living, breathing thing, a thing of which he is a part." In this passage, Shakespeare is referring to the fact that a man can be killed by anyone who encounters him, whether or not the man is a wordsmith. This is a reference to the emperor's ruling that