Indeed, one of the things I am keeping in mind as an issue coming up is how to approach those idiotic socratic dialogues, where she does not come off as clever, so much as someone in the hands of idiots. Especially with the Whites, who are supposed to be intellectually superior and whose methods of debate should have left her unable to respond (compare, for instance, their discussion with her, and the argument going on among the Whites guarding Leane in KoD, and then ask yourselves if women of the same mindset as those jailers would really have been impressed with Egwene's logic. Somehow I doubt it.
Too true, it seemed more an exercise in common sense, and as it went, not too bad, but not really great logic as such. Similar to her advice to the Brown Sister regarding the secret library - are the Browns really so isolated for the sister not to have worked out herself how to approach it?
Another point I found a little off was the performance of the Green Ajah, and the negative comparison of them against Egwene - Egwene just acted as a Seanchan Damane in alot of respects to my mind, just with a lot more power behind her than any of the Damane could wield, and that has nothing to do with being part of the Battle Ajah, that is just being a weapon, as well as being free of the oaths.
The thought processes I had in mind though were more around her stating she shouldn't dwell much on the fact that the Black Ajah likely got her where she is and manipulated her for their own ends (aided by Siuan really), as it is in the past, but chooses to dwell on why Siuan broke her word and rescued her, trying to determine what Egwene did wrong and what she could do better in future to make Siuan more obedient, the latter seemed a relatively simple mistake / loophole, which is done and done, and so she should continue to concentrate on the future, whereas the former should make her question whether she should continue to do what she has been doing to date, and so should be dwelt on more.
But as always, if what she should do has a chance of lessening her power, she'll find an excuse to avoid it. Much better to nit-pick over others' failings or shortcomings. Ben Franklin said "Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones." Egwene remembers at some level, which is why she turns a critical and unblinking eye on other's small faults - so she won't have to confront the proverbial beam in her own eye while probing for her neighbor's splinter.
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
