Place. Boy. Man. Kellhus

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« on: March 08, 2016, 06:52:11 am »
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No thought.

The boy extinguished.

Only a place.

This place.

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I have been legion

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Now I understand

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His intellect flailed, found purchase, and grasped. He could sense wild cause sweep around him in statistical tides. Touch him and leave him untouched.

I am a man. I stand apart from these things.

In these two quotes, from the end and beginning of the first book, respectively, describe a contradiction.  In the first quote, during his boyhood training, it is the absence of assertion of personhood, "the boy extinguished," that demonstrates Kellhus ability to master circumstance, in the second quote, during the prologue journey, it is the assertion of personhood, "I am a man," that demonstrates Kellhus ability to master circumstance.

Will you resolve this contradiction?

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« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2016, 05:58:57 am »
In a re read I also noticed that there are interesting elements of kellhus' psyche involving "place" in both coming down from the circumfix and in casting his cant of translocation at the end of thousandfold  thought. Do all of these things have a significant relationship?


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