You made it too deliciously irresistible. Er, the teasing, not the long showers (just to be clear. ' />) Sorry if it came off as a cheap shot, 'cos I was just having a little fun and meant no harm.

Also recall that until recently the same complaint was often made against Jordan for overuse of many phrases, some quite adroit when first observed. I'm less rather than more concerned by this because it's so eminently preferable to elegant variation (which Wikipedia says has been rechristened "inelegant variation" because the other adjective has lost a negative connotation it once possessed; I like it. ) We may not care for the feel of it, but it's unambiguous and doesn't leave us thinking he's referring to a dozen things just because he refers to the same thing by a dozen names in as many sentences just to avoid repetition. Indeed, parallel constructions are frequently valuable for just this reason.

In a twelve plus volume series with installments averaging well over 700 pages a certain amount of repetition is inevitable. Note that I don't feel obliged to speak of "redundancy" "recurrence" "recidivism" and the like just to prove my vocabulary (read: that thesauruses exist. ) Repetition is repetition and I'll call it such how ever many times required to discuss it.

Perhaps it's not quite the same, but a skirt smoothing mouse could starve on the difference while teaching a fish to fly (I've always liked that second example so much I occasionally use it also. )