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The Wheel of Time as Humanist Fiction
Here is your flaw, Shai’tan—Lord of the Dark, Lord of Envy! Lord of Nothing! Here is why you fail! It was not about me. It’s never been about me!
What’s Next?
What’s Next? 2020 was a remarkably shitty year in almost every respect and only the fact that my wife passed away in 2018 kept it from being the worst year of my life. It kicked my depression into high gear and made even trying to make a living something I could...
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6 Ways the EOTW Prologue Spoils Everything
The Wheel of Time is one of those series that sliced open my gullet and made a home in my innards. I’ve been reading—and re-reading—it off and once since the early 90s and have spent more time listening to narrators Michael Kramer and Kate Reading than is accepted by polite society.
On many of those re-reads, I made the mistake of skipping the prologue. Prompted by news of the upcoming show, I re-read the whole thing again and realized that it is, almost literally, all there in the prologue.
So here, to start the most epic of re-reads, I’m digging into the prologue and spoiling everything.
The Wheel of Time as Humanist Fiction
Here is your flaw, Shai’tan—Lord of the Dark, Lord of Envy! Lord of Nothing! Here is why you fail! It was not about me. It’s never been about me!
What’s Next?
What’s Next? 2020 was a remarkably shitty year in almost every respect and only the fact that my wife passed away in 2018 kept it from being the worst year of my life. It kicked my depression into high gear and made even trying to make a living something I could...