1. Why do you think the Magistrate is interested in the
ruins, and if he is truly fascinated with them why does he have others work on
the excavation?
2. The Magistrate talks of how he is forgetting how the blind
girl looks(100), how is such a thing possible after the ritual of oiling her body occurred
numerous times, what does it say about what she was to him?
3. Does the Magistrate truly think of himself as a martyr,
or the One Just Man?
4. When the blind girl says “Yes, there were other men. I
did not have a choice…”(61) do you believe she includes him in this category?
5. When it comes to the quote “I wish that these barbarians
would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would learn to respect them” (58)
do you see this as hopeful, naïve, a passing fancy etc.? How does this quote match
up with others that appear in the first part of the novel?
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