Kevin's Watch

sherlock_525 wrote:Just for you man. Just for you.

sherlock_525 wrote:Hey Leper, you ever hear of "Killer Klowns From Outer Space"? That ranks a 6.5, but doesn't suck bad enough to kill.

sherlock_525 wrote:How's that?

Stutty wrote:Oh c'mon EL. No need to be so obscure.. fess up!

I vaguely remember a very intoxicated night watching that film on VHS way back in the late 80's I think.

Loved how the clowns used the balloon animals.

oh yeah..
7 words...

nope, can't save this post.

stutt

amanibhavam wrote:ad: "- It destroys the mythology of the back story of the series, by exposing what happened directly and eliminating much of the cool stuff (such as the Earth speaking to Berek)"

It doesn't, not in my book. It provides a wholly plausible story to see how those legends came into existence, that the Earth didn't actually speak to Berek just the poor blighter could not interpret it otherwise. We know now an answer to the perplexing question how the legend of the white gold came was born in the first place when white gold per se cannot be found in the Land except the two Covenant-rings: Berek saw/felt it on Linden's neck, did not understand a bit of it perhaps but it was enough to create a legend.
The Land/the story is full of magic anyway, begging us to suspend our disbelief at nearly every corner. It is _nice_ to know that some things have an everyday explanation after all. For me, anyway.

I wanted to come here and say that Linden using the 7 words at the end of Part 1 was one of the coolest scenes in all the Chronicles. I know I've had my problems with the motivation and plot structure up to this point, but from sheer narrative force, pure dramatic dramatic achievement . . . that's a cool scene. Of course, the fact that it's a culmination of something which began two Chronicles ago, adds to its force. The recent revelation of the 7th word and how Linden learns the whole string while in the past, ties together this almost "cinematic" depiction of Linden screaming these words while wielding an Earthblood-powered Staff of Law, with the rich history of those words in terms of Donaldson's mythology. That scene reverberates, both in its own right and throughout the entire canvas of Donaldson's creation.

ron beck: after re-reading the previous books in the series I am about half way through the Fatal Revenant, and the (missing) 7th word of power (Harad) is finally revealed. If the Theomach is to be believed, it signifies that anyone using the words of power may not wield Earthpower to advance the cause of Despair.

In the earlier books when the Words of Power are invoked, this one is not used. Will we discover the possible philosophical ramifications of this omission, or am I thinking too much about this?

or (even more likely) is it a Read and Find Out?

In this case, I don't think there's much explanantion required. In one way or another, Kevin is responsible for what the "new" Lords both do and do not know. So if *you* were contemplating performing a Ritual of Desecration, which of the Seven Words would *you* suppress? In other words, I think it's obvious that the "loss" of that particular word was Kevin's doing.

(01/21/2008)

dlbpharmd wrote:

I wanted to come here and say that Linden using the 7 words at the end of Part 1 was one of the coolest scenes in all the Chronicles. I know I've had my problems with the motivation and plot structure up to this point, but from sheer narrative force, pure dramatic dramatic achievement . . . that's a cool scene. Of course, the fact that it's a culmination of something which began two Chronicles ago, adds to its force. The recent revelation of the 7th word and how Linden learns the whole string while in the past, ties together this almost "cinematic" depiction of Linden screaming these words while wielding an Earthblood-powered Staff of Law, with the rich history of those words in terms of Donaldson's mythology. That scene reverberates, both in its own right and throughout the entire canvas of Donaldson's creation.

Well said.