Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. —
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- Name of the Wind Analysis — Ch 10:
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Name of the Wind Analysis — Ch 10:
Kvothe “kept him busy” and he hadn’t had the leisure with his eyebrows to “burn them off.” Seems like a theme where the sun is concerned in this song of fire and thunder.
Alar in English comes from the adjectival suffix added to the Latin ala. Something that has, resembles, or is composed of alae or wings is called alar. Or, occasionally, winged. As in of Tehlu’s angels.
I think it’s entirely possible that sympathy is where the mind starts to break entirely and not in a great way:
Alar. Those who practice sympathetic magic grow alae. Ala. The hollow in a human limb or a tree where the branch meets the trunk. Ala comes from axla which comes from axis, an old word for both the North Pole and the heavens — or a region or clime of them.
Alar. You know. The things that let you fly through the heavens, both as a person and in planet form.
Riding crop belief.
He tries to teach it using gravity, you know. Stones flying through space. “Move mountains” and “shake trees.”
He compares it to faith in Tehlu.
He compares it to faith in his genes.
He compares it to the rod he uses to beat the letter A and letter B.
“Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don’t exist.” Perhaps that’s what folly is: either he was tricked into perceiving a sword existed that didn’t — or something else — or he’s trying to get someone tricked into perceiving a sword exists that doesn’t.
Ben said a man who truly mastered Heart of Stone could go to his sister’s funeral without ever shedding a tear.
Perhaps one of them did just that? Perhaps the name of stone and the heart of stone are connected? I do, as I’m thinking through personifications, wonder who the person of stone is. For that matter, The Wind.
He also taught me a game called Seek the Stone. The point of the game was to have one part of your mind hide an imaginary stone in an imaginary room. Then you had another, separate part of your mind try to find it.
This sounds to me an awful lot like the Lackless box. It also sounds a lot to me like Jax and the moon and Jax and the folding house.
And therefore sounds an awful lot to me like what we see in Kvothe’s behavior in the frame narrative.
Another time I asked for hints and ended up jeering at myself. It’s no wonder that many arcanists you meet are a little eccentric, if not downright cracked. As Ben had said, sympathy is not for the weak of mind.
Three questions:
1. Is Ben cracked?
2. How much of the moon is cracked? Three parts?
3. How much of Kvothe?
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