tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post6577118847302372850..comments2024-01-14T15:52:43.644-05:00Comments on The Thirteenth Depository - A Wheel of Time Blog: The Eye of the World Read-Through #4 - From Inn to InnDominichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17610557134981958201noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post-25283148363724548492009-04-22T14:00:00.000-04:002009-04-22T14:00:00.000-04:00Thanks - and exactly for Aviendha :) For related ...Thanks - and exactly for Aviendha :) For related stuff, take 'bath' in the largest possible sense: falling in the sea, in ponds, being afraid to cross water, sweat tents, carrying water (recurrent for both Egwene and Rand in EOTW) learning to swim, imagining someone bathing, dreams about swimming/baths (the last two are recurrent about Lanfear, and for the three women). For moments in particular, there's the taking of boats which is related to controlling saidar/relation of the character to saidar and thus full of 'inside jokes': The Amyrlin is the 'River Queen' and splashed water all over the place, the three girls try to pass themselves up for full sisters, and their ship run into a mud bank :D, Nyaneve with her block is always sea sick and don't want to come up deck - and it's when her little boat sinks that she finally breaks her block. Elayne rather learns fast and with enthusiasm what the Windfinder teaches her, Egwene's Skimming plateform is a boat. Egeanin who learns the truth about sul'dam and the lies/misconceptions about Aes Aedai is bereft of her ship. Setalle, who burned out, survived thanks to the love of a fisherman with a few little boats. Etc. It's a very rich theme to explore for the imagery. (one of many... We'll bring up more as we go along). Have fun. <br /><br />For Anonymous: Nice catch about the Innkeepers - RJ was very good with little touches like this - it's like a clue to the reader: there's patterns there. The characters in the story also LOVE patterns - Rand seemed to feel safer once he noticed fat innkeeepers are nice, slim ones can't be trusted. It's part of their worldview, that everything form patterns. They don't like it when the patterns are broken. Don't worry too much about beeing analytical - it all started with spotting a few things like this. It took years and many rereads and tons of discussions with like-minded readers for us to go much beyond that and to have collected enough 'data' to be analytical.Dominichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17610557134981958201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post-51627683982179791952009-04-22T09:32:00.000-04:002009-04-22T09:32:00.000-04:00Thanks for the insight on Bath Scenes. I'm going t...Thanks for the insight on Bath Scenes. I'm going to have to pay a <I>lot</I> more attention when those come up. Just thinking about Aviendha and her relationship to baths produces all kinds of interesting windows on her character.SteelBlaiddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01233479838726084794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post-46434688042545787002009-04-21T16:30:00.000-04:002009-04-21T16:30:00.000-04:00This comment is far less analytical than the blog ...This comment is far less analytical than the blog post, but I always liked how the "safe" inns were the ones with fat innkeepers, while the dangerous ones had thin or gaunt innkeepers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com