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I can't believe that it took me THIS LONG to realize that her name is almost literally the same as the word Rothfuss made up for meth Like this is on a level of subtlety akin to naming a character "Morphina"
Denna/Denner Resin I thought it was too obvious to mention ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm also sticking by my psychodynamic reading of the text and I'm like 1000% committed to the entire inner Kvothe story being a series of elaborate self-serving lies by the real character Kote
maybe Rothfuss will pull a "LOST" and go on for like six more books before finally admitting that it was what he'd had in mind all along and he only kept going because he was mad that we tumbled to it so early.
lmao probably not. i think the reason he's taking so long to finish the third book is that he's read too much of this type of shit on the internet and has come down with a bad case of self-doubt because so many people read the story at face value.
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.
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.
Heinleinitis strikes again
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?
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.
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.
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?
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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