Relayer wrote:Well, for one thing we get a chapter from Triock's POV, so we get to know some of what he's thinking and has experienced in his life. We never get that for Trell.
Oh, umm... funny thing, when reading SRD's stuff, half the time I never quite realize that a given chapter is from a particular person's POV... I just assume that it is absolute truth about what's happening in the world from until the person starts thinking things that are really suspect.
Ahhh, the perils of being an "NF" (personality type), and reading the writing of someone who is greatly trying to built empathy with the chars.
SGuilfoyle1966 wrote:That story always gets to me, too.
I wonder, given the reaction of the Lords. WAS it actually prophecy, do you think?
Only because the Lords tend to be rather wise about that sort of thing. I can't trace it and get specific and point out parallel details, except for the general tendency of the Land and its inhabitants to be so opposite to Covenant (who Covenant is when he first enters the land) in the area of "holding out hope against all odds and in spite of high costs." It's the question of "what is most important?", "what is most valuable?"
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
And when he really wants to party, he mixes it up with The Captain and Tenille's "Muskrat Love." 
