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Literature / Re: "The broken empire" by Mark Lawrence
« on: August 13, 2013, 02:00:54 pm »
Hmm... I'll have to look it up. Thus far, I've not felt much of a lure to read the of Thorns series.
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But the whole mountain isn't a topoi, just the the depth, the pits where the suffering took place... and the gates, where the main part of the battles where.
I wonder, are dieing and suffering the same? Could the suffereing by the dead, at the hands of the hundred, somehow be "grounded" in the geographical place where they died, such that, when a lot of people die in one place, there is inherently a lot of suffering?
Does anyone happen to know when it is first mentioned the Kellhus either apprehends or starts using TTT?
The "hinges of destiny" quote from tDtCB has been bothering me recently and for some reason I see the timing of Kellhus' revelations about TTT being the missing piece in one of my never to be written, hot sauce induced, crackpot theories.
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I though that the firs time Kellhus grasps TTT is as he is cut down from the tree and freed from the circumfix. If not there, then sometime close before that spot, around where he spends weeks in the Probability Trance trying to find a way out of the circumfixtion.
The "hinges of destiny" quote from tDtCB has been bothering me recently and for some reason I see the timing of Kellhus' revelations about TTT being the missing piece in one of my never to be written, hot sauce induced, crackpot theories.
What the hell, you're holding out on us? Come now, lets have it. I'll not stand for this hording of crackpotery.
Though, the same could be said for any action; not just language, no?
You're the carrier/a carrier of the argument now. As in you've repeated it, Mike.
And in reality, it is only a problem so much as other humans use this leverage to dominate other humans because argumentatively,
A problem I've found is that, once you really understand how each word you speak (or write or type) can influence your audience, it can become hard to restrain yourself from purposefully manipulating people. And most people are so damn easy to manipulate.
Eventually, you start to feel a bit like Inrilatas: when every word, every gesture or expression, every subtlety of tone and cadence, becomes a potential tool (or even a potential weapon), how can you really be said to mean anything you say? Even if you feel like you're being honest and "speaking from the heart", how can you be sure you're not just manipulating yourself in order to more easily manipulate others? After all, the best liars and conmen are the ones who really, genuinely believe the lies they're telling while they're telling them. There is nothing so convincing as conviction.
+1 Duskweaver
It would be like Usain Bolt trying to let a young cousin beat him in a race. As far as social interaction goes, I would imagine that people fall into one of two categories: either they are attempting to "speak from the heart" when, in fact, no such objective personal state exists, or they forgo trying to resonate with their "true self" (which doesn't exist) and act/speak how they think they should in order to accomplish a certain goal (manipulation, simple acceptance, etc.)