I care that he succeeded in creating a narrative fiction in which both drug addiction and mental illness are personified as mysterious and beautiful women and where a swaggering hero's instincts to publicly humiliate his bullies are the WORST fucking decisions.
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
we must have read different books because I have no idea what you mean about personifying drug addiction and mental illness as women
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
Auri's mentally ill, not a personification of mental illness, I'd say. I also have no idea how Denna is at all connected to addiction.
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But then Denna's main role is to be interesting, strong, and independent when she's acting on her own, and a simpering idiot in every scene she shares with Kvothe, lest she somehow steal a lumen of his spotlight.
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Replying to @chaosprime @palecur
I disagree with that and seriously will push the psychodynamic reading of the inner narrative as hard as necessary to make the point. Kvothe isn't a person we've actually met in the story at all. He's a fiction made up by the innkeeper Kote. Why does Kote tell the story that way?
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
This is pretty much the 'Trump 4-D chess' thing in lit-crit form, man. "This boring, stultifying, self-indulgent narrative is just a setup for a ::masterstroke:: later on!" Even if that's the case, it's not worth suffering through.
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it's probably not worth suffering through but the circumstantial evidence that that's what he's doing is overwhelming and you know that Rothfuss is exactly the type of nerd to be too clever by half.
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Like, the end of the story is going to be a riff on The Usual Suspects and the chronicler's going to look around the inn and realize that the innkeeper was just making everything up the whole time?
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something like that. Kote the innkeeper and Bast his faerie/demon apprentice (or is it minder/jailer?) are real, and he got that sword "Folly" from somewhere. the rest of it, well, I wouldn't take it literally. it's a ruse.
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Could be that the Big Twist is that the whole time it was the demon driving him to do things. Big end scene: "You can't kill me! I MADE YOU!" "Yes, you did...but what you made is MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU!" (stab)
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