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Transition

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Transition	label	Transition
Transition	page	Transition
Transition	comment	Transition is a novel by Iain Banks, first published in 2009.It is based on the premise that a virtually infinite number of parallel dimensions do indeed exist. Set between the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the destruction of the Twin Towers, Transition centres on a shadowy organisation called 'The Concern' whose members can transport their consciousness into the bodies of unsuspecting people in other dimensions by ingesting a drug called Septus and thus meddle with the socio-political development of other Earths.
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Transition / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Transition / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The Philosopher Wouldn't Hurt a Child. While some of his colleagues are happy to oblige when a child must be tortured to force a parent to talk, he thinks doing so is "both morally objectionable and suspect in principle."
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Transition / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Transition / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: The novel has a torturer's POV, in which he describes, among other things, his favorite methods, the importance of simply scaring people into talking, and the need to inflict a minimum amount of pain so that the agency he works for will remain feared.
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Transition / int_6b4f4350	type	Zeppelins from Another World
Transition / int_6b4f4350	comment	Zeppelins from Another World: Invoked. A man who frequently travels between universes at one point looks up at the sky when arriving in a new one, searching for zeppelins. As he says, he 'likes it when there's zeppelins'.
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Transition / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Transition / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: The Philosopher does not enjoy torturing people, but is "not ashamed of it", and would even say he was proud of it. Put simply, he believes "it is something that has to be done, and somebody has to do it"
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Transition / int_b43a531c	type	Selective Slaughter
Transition / int_b43a531c	comment	Selective Slaughter: The Philosopher, a torturer, refuses to hurt women or children. He notes that some would claim that it was because he once heard his father raping his mother, but he believes that it's because he's a gentleman.
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Transition / int_bf3e372	type	Torture Is Ineffective
Transition / int_bf3e372	comment	Torture Is Ineffective: A torturer/narrator explains that the worst torture of all is just describing what will happen. Later in the same book, torture fails to work, but only because the character being tortured teleports out of his body first.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Transition	hasFeature	Body Surf / int_f6d8d722
Transition	hasFeature	Cold-Blooded Torture / int_f6d8d722
Transition	hasFeature	Selective Slaughter / int_f6d8d722
Transition	hasFeature	Zeppelins from Another World / int_f6d8d722

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