Hey! lyssa027 suggested we may be good friends. I've seen you comment on her journal. I generally post about my dogs and horse, my husband, my photography, and the occasional rant.
If you're up for trying it out, awesome! If not, no worries. :)
for some reason, I cannot comment to your comment on Aome's LJ entry, I get always the "invalid" message.- So, I use this place to comment to you, I hope you do not mind:
Yes, I find, too, the way the author "explained" the magic by the underlying physics, chemistry and maths was great! :) And I like the books for exactly the same reasons you do! And since I had read the books back-to-back I really have lost the overview of what has been covered in which book, so, I am careful not to spoil-.
But I would like to hear why you thinks Kvothe has so much harder a time to learn Naming...
BTW, I "know" you for a long time through our mutual friend(s)through your comments. I would like to add you to my friends' list if you don't mind and would be thrilled if you added me back. :)
Hi! Sorry it's taken me a while to respond to you (as you may have seen, we had out-of-town guests, so my LJ time is only now recovering :)
Happy to have you as a friend -- I've seen your comments on aome's journal for ages, too :) -- and definitely don't mind continuing the Kvothe conversation here (although if you'd like to see my thoughts on the books in situ, they're at this tag).
But I would like to hear why you thinks Kvothe has so much harder a time to learn Naming... My thinking was that Naming seems to require some kind of zen-like state (at least that's what I got out of Kvothe gaining more control over it after his time with the Adem), and Kvothe's mind tending to go a mile a minute probably makes achieving that harder, especially when he doesn't know that's what he's trying to do. To me this jives with Elodin's rather random approach to teaching Naming (which could also be because he's crazy, of course, but still), and maybe even with Fela, who, as an artist, may have an easier time accessing that sort of altered state than
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for some reason, I cannot comment to your comment on Aome's LJ entry, I get always the "invalid" message.-
So, I use this place to comment to you, I hope you do not mind:
Yes, I find, too, the way the author "explained" the magic by the underlying physics, chemistry and maths was great! :)
And I like the books for exactly the same reasons you do!
And since I had read the books back-to-back I really have lost the overview of what has been covered in which book, so, I am careful not to spoil-.
But I would like to hear why you thinks Kvothe has so much harder a time to learn Naming...
BTW, I "know" you for a long time through our mutual friend(s)through your comments. I would like to add you to my friends' list if you don't mind and would be thrilled if you added me back. :)
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Happy to have you as a friend -- I've seen your comments on aome's journal for ages, too :) -- and definitely don't mind continuing the Kvothe conversation here (although if you'd like to see my thoughts on the books in situ, they're at this tag).
But I would like to hear why you thinks Kvothe has so much harder a time to learn Naming... My thinking was that Naming seems to require some kind of zen-like state (at least that's what I got out of Kvothe gaining more control over it after his time with the Adem), and Kvothe's mind tending to go a mile a minute probably makes achieving that harder, especially when he doesn't know that's what he's trying to do. To me this jives with Elodin's rather random approach to teaching Naming (which could also be because he's crazy, of course, but still), and maybe even with Fela, who, as an artist, may have an easier time accessing that sort of altered state than ( ... )
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