You may be right, but the Snakes at least left him preoccupied with his destiny and convinced that it must come true. Would have looked at Tuon twice had he not known about the prophecy? I honestly don't think so.
Oh I completely agree with you on that, which is what I meant with the self-fulfilling prophecy line. It's a tactic that has been around nearly as long as literature has and is perhaps most famously seen in Oedipus Rex. He hears a prophecy and decides to avoid it, so he radically alters the course of his life with the end result being that he causes the prophecy to come true. Mat has a fairly similar experience.The counter-argument is that because it was destiny, or fate, it would have happened anyway without the interference of the Oracle/Snake people. My counter-counter-argument is that counter-history is dumb, because there is no way to ever possibly know.
There is not enough Egwene hate. Three days without ANY is too long.
02/09/2009 12:05:29 AM
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02/09/2009 12:57:07 AM
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02/09/2009 01:50:29 AM
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Her capabilty to love is astonishing.
02/09/2009 05:23:24 AM
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I particularly like how her declaration of love is practically the first thing she ever says to him.
02/09/2009 06:24:01 AM
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02/09/2009 06:38:55 AM
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02/09/2009 04:42:43 PM
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I take objection to Mat.
03/09/2009 02:34:37 AM
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I don't really agree
03/09/2009 05:13:46 AM
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not a wish
03/09/2009 01:30:30 PM
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Re: not a wish
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03/09/2009 05:01:33 PM
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Oh goodie another useless cannoli post---let me know if you ever come up with something original *NM*
02/09/2009 11:56:27 AM
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Funny, I can't recall ANYTHING you've contributed for like, months back, now.
04/09/2009 11:32:05 PM
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Bah... here's my version
02/09/2009 04:40:00 PM
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Now you just need your 35 part series on her...
03/09/2009 02:45:16 AM
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I'm rereading FoH right now, and it's so weird now that I pay attention to Egwene
04/09/2009 09:41:19 PM
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