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Re: Who comes out looking worst in the Egwene-Suana encounter? Egwene, Suana or B-Sand? Cannoli Send a noteboard - 27/11/2009 09:17:58 PM
I've been saying for years that you don't need to be good at Healing to be in the Yellows. It's merely where your interest lies. I actually think there are Yellows who are only average at Healing and have to strain to Heal a broken arm. Consider that Anaiya is Blue but is a good healer... she doesn't want to be Yellow. There are probably weak healers in the Yellows who have adept political skill, but they're not interested in being Blue. The ajah isn't their permanent occupation or even their identity really - it's where they live and who their friends are, and what their attitude towards the Power is.
I hold the same position, but you would think it would take more than a modicum of that skill. How can someone TRULY hold Healing to be paramount in importance and be unable to do it? How is a person supposed to resolve that dichotomy of thinking something is great and wonderful and important, but they suck at it? I would think such a person could find better things to do with her life than hanging around like some sort of pathetic Yellow-groupie. It would be like letting a burned-out woman still call herself Aes Sedai and hang around the Tower. Her mind is the same, after all...
Furthermore, if that whole "fixing things" mentality was TRULY a part of the Yellow, why was Romanda so pressed for a rationale to take charge of the embassy to the Black Tower? Either that is NOT the Yellows' mentality, and just an interpretation of Sanderson, or else the Salidar crew has the worst Yellows.

You need to hate men to be a Red - that's hardly more trivial than if you like to fix things.
Yeah, that's according to everyone but the Reds. The hating men is a RESULT of being in the Reds, just like arrogance is a result of being in the Yellows.

Because Nynaeve is rarely right about anything. Between Egwene and Nynaeve, Egwene got all the brains. Nynaeve is just emotion that you need to aim. Nynaeve stubbornly believes in her stupid herbs but not only are they greatly inferior even to the meanest Healing, but they probably don't work AT ALL.
Ah, so she's Healing herself when she takes them? And as for Nynaeve being emotional and intuitive, she is more often right with her feelings and hunches than Egwene is by any reasoning. Egwene lacks both Nynaeve's inuitive...wisdom for lack of a better term, and true intellectual ability. What she does have is good instincts and a nose for opportunity. Egwene makes the most of things and recognizes cirucmstances without thinking about them. She doesn't have the pure rational faculties to reason things out.

It was a passing comment with no weight from Egwene. Besides, you don't know how the Tower has changed. Perhaps forkroot has created some interest in herbs.
Hence, food. The point is, why such associations. She sees food and thinks "medicine." Is she the idiot or Sanderson?

Or instead of Healing the injured all day she's a normal person with hobbies, like growing plants.
True dat. But Egwene equates it with Nynaeve's professional interests. So, wrong again.

Or more likely Egwene entered the room and saw lots of plants, so her mind jumped to healing Herbs because she was in the room of the LEADER OF THE AJAH.
So, because she's in the Healing Ajah, her "food" must therefore be "medicine"?

The scene can be summarized as...
- Egwene notices things and keeps them to herself.

Furtive and sneaky
- Suana has hobbies.

To which Egwene attributes odd significance.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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Who comes out looking worst in the Egwene-Suana encounter? Egwene, Suana or B-Sand? Cannoli - 27/11/2009 04:16:18 PM 1665 Views
Re: Who comes out looking worst in the Egwene-Suana encounter? Egwene, Suana or B-Sand? darius_sedai - 27/11/2009 06:30:31 PM 718 Views
I interpreted it as Branderson trying to make the Yellow more believable. lord-of-shadow - 27/11/2009 07:09:43 PM 830 Views
Re: I interpreted it as Branderson trying to make the Yellow more believable. Cannoli - 27/11/2009 08:16:48 PM 753 Views
anti-Nynaeve? darius_sedai - 27/11/2009 08:26:54 PM 733 Views
But that is not the connotation of Egwene's comment. Cannoli - 27/11/2009 08:45:40 PM 808 Views
I disagree darius_sedai - 27/11/2009 09:01:04 PM 696 Views
Cannoli comes out looking like crap. RtDB! fionwe1987 - 27/11/2009 07:51:53 PM 749 Views
Re: Cannoli comes out looking like crap. RtDB! darius_sedai - 27/11/2009 08:19:46 PM 653 Views
He's doing a crappy job of that, too. Cannoli - 27/11/2009 08:37:06 PM 710 Views
Re: Cannoli comes out looking like crap. RtDB! fionwe1987 - 27/11/2009 11:06:06 PM 716 Views
Please recall that you have admitted an inferior understanding of American English connotations. Cannoli - 27/11/2009 08:23:41 PM 719 Views
Yes. I admit to not being fully familiar with a third rate rip off of a language I speak. So? fionwe1987 - 27/11/2009 11:18:39 PM 658 Views
How can Egwene know she's unskilled if she's never Healed? darius_sedai - 28/11/2009 12:19:58 AM 653 Views
Simple... fionwe1987 - 28/11/2009 01:16:44 AM 659 Views
I can see that for weaves they aren't stong enough darius_sedai - 28/11/2009 01:35:43 AM 621 Views
Nitpicking. Rand al'Thor - 27/11/2009 08:18:02 PM 743 Views
Actually it's trying to sort who is to blame for various idiocies. Cannoli - 27/11/2009 08:25:28 PM 699 Views
hrmm Yunalesca - 27/11/2009 11:12:04 PM 596 Views
Re: Who comes out looking worst in the Egwene-Suana encounter? Egwene, Suana or B-Sand? Sidious - 27/11/2009 08:27:29 PM 777 Views
Re: Who comes out looking worst in the Egwene-Suana encounter? Egwene, Suana or B-Sand? Mat_Cauthon33 - 27/11/2009 08:43:42 PM 747 Views
I agree that B-Sand did an excellent job overall darius_sedai - 27/11/2009 08:51:41 PM 710 Views
Re: I agree that B-Sand did an excellent job overall Sidious - 27/11/2009 09:12:14 PM 617 Views
Re: I agree that B-Sand did an excellent job overall darius_sedai - 27/11/2009 09:15:01 PM 638 Views
Re: I agree that B-Sand did an excellent job overall Sidious - 27/11/2009 09:20:17 PM 593 Views
You are correct! darius_sedai - 27/11/2009 09:21:08 PM 574 Views
Why would I justify obviously right actions? Cannoli - 27/11/2009 09:25:45 PM 677 Views
This sounds like the descriptions I've heard of The Sword of Truth. Fanatic-Templar - 27/11/2009 10:01:33 PM 605 Views
Have you actually read that? It's so booooooring. Cannoli - 27/11/2009 09:23:27 PM 616 Views
Well it's the raving of a lunatic darius_sedai - 27/11/2009 09:26:27 PM 612 Views
like the scene at natrin's barrows? moondog - 28/11/2009 05:56:21 PM 665 Views
This line gave me a laugh... RugbyPlayingAshaman - 28/11/2009 12:44:14 AM 644 Views
Re: Who comes out looking worst in the Egwene-Suana encounter? Egwene, Suana or B-Sand? Cannoli - 27/11/2009 09:17:58 PM 668 Views
Re: Who comes out looking worst in the Egwene-Suana encounter? Egwene, Suana or B-Sand? Sidious - 27/11/2009 09:31:23 PM 638 Views
Nice one, Mr. Chauvinist, but you do make a point, too Lordling - 27/11/2009 09:19:33 PM 652 Views
Re: Who comes out looking worst in the Egwene-Suana encounter? Egwene, Suana or B-Sand? Insomdeon - 27/11/2009 10:19:14 PM 627 Views
Re: Who comes out looking worst in the Egwene-Suana encounter? Egwene, Suana or B-Sand? rAndy aL - 28/11/2009 01:32:57 AM 680 Views
Yes. A VERY lame joke. Cannoli - 28/11/2009 11:20:34 AM 823 Views
Lets look at it in perspective Ryan - 28/11/2009 02:23:37 AM 693 Views
Deconstruction of failed comprehension TheUltimateReality - 30/11/2009 10:04:24 PM 601 Views
I was reminded of Elaida's liking for plants guttering flame - 01/12/2009 07:51:31 AM 594 Views
Silly Cannoli BlackAdder - 01/12/2009 11:41:21 PM 898 Views
You got to admit, reading Cannoli is fun! *NM* Skeeve the Great - 10/12/2009 02:46:01 AM 269 Views
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