No thought.
The boy extinguished.
Only a place.
This place.
...
I have been legion
...
Now I understand
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?