I so remember the word football.  I think I do.  Highlighted it and everything, but my ex wife has that iPad now, and I'd prefer to brave Wutteat than her :p

Will start a re-read tonight of any chapters it might have been in.

Big sorry if I got that one wrong, let's see

There's a long post brewing somewhere :: found the ending quite logical and uplifting, until reading everything here !

But this isn't that post.

The (sub-optimal) title of this post refers to a couple of weird clues found in the text, single words used by the narrator which broke the world building.

I discussed this with my wife, who is a lot more literary than me, and she assured me that any skilled writer would have done this on purpose.  It wasn't a mistake and it wasn't an editorial oversight.

Pfff, after all that build-up these two examples seem a bit pathetic - heregoes anyway

1) on my 3rd re-read of TJE or WLW (the part where the skin eaters are in the old non-man mansion) the narrator describes the dimensions as (from memory) “the length of a football field”.  A huge jump out of Earwa's world into our own.

2) again, a measurement thing, I think from an even earlier book, the narrator describes a distance in “Miles” or “Kilometres” - not Earwan measurements.

These two (surely intentional) breaks in the narrative consciousness subtly suggested the possibility of the nuke scene.  That there were contemporary eyes looking into & shaping Earwa.

Has anyone else found any other “sticky out bits” like these ?  I'll be looking out for them on the 4th re-read.

This also raises the question as to why it was fine for the narrator to use present day, our world concepts to describe Earwan phenomena, yet couldn't call a nuke a nuke, or a hologram a hologram.

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Slightly unrelated, but involving a stick (or was it a bone... ).  Right at the end of TTT on the way to meeting Big Moe, Kellhus steps on a twig or something.  It cracks.  That was just so un-Kellhus.

I've seen a few posts about the meaning of this, but no conclusions.

It was interesting that in almost exactly the same point of the second series (20 pages before the end) there was another “Twig”; ground seemingly unconditioned by Kellhus, though this time much more explicitly significant to the unfolding of events : Kelmomas.

Are there any conclusions to be drawn from this, or is it simply random structural echoes ?

How did you guys manage to get an electronic copy of The Great Ordeal on the other side of the pond? I live in Europe but changed my address on Amazon so I could buy it on Kindle today, but it still says the Kindle copy won't arrive until September...

I'd be thankful for some advice.

I guess that if you follow the steps I posted on the previous page  ( amazon,  kindle not ip spoofing madness ) you should be good, being from Europe as well.  The step which nearly tripped me was changing kindle settings. Says something like 'I've changed address' swap this to a canada address and everything will be fine.  If you're really stuck pm me... wait for the pm to come through and I'm happy to go through the process with you on Skype.

I hate borders.

A kindred spirit; it's my hope that in the future people will view the lottery of hunger and life possibilities decided on something as random as birth location with the same barbaric darkness with which we see human sacrifice, slavery and the 'corrective' torture of homosexuals.

Quote from: Omnirom on July 12, 2016, 01:19:21 am

Keep checking the b&n site for the digital edition.  Anyone know what time it is in noblebarnesland?

Nowwwww!

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ballix, I'm going to bed

Keep checking the b&n site for the digital edition.  Anyone know what time it is in noblebarnesland?

EDIT: Though, if we can't have GRRM, I'd love if MG's bakkerfans quote graced the cover !

jajaja, great call !