Anyone catch the Alcatraz reference in Yumi?

[AonDorSmiteThisGuy She/her]

So in yumi and the nightmare painter hoid says something like "more twisted than a librarians love life" I cant think of anything else this coukd be referencing, but Alcatraz takes place on earth, so decidedly not cosmere. Any insights or am I just crazy 

[Treamayne]

1 hour ago, AonDorSmiteThisGuy said:

So in yumi and the nightmare painter hoid says something like "more twisted than a librarians love life" I cant think of anything else this coukd be referencing, but Alcatraz takes place on earth, so decidedly not cosmere. Any insights or am I just crazy 

Eye-reading or ear-reading?
Do you happen to know what chapter?

Searching the book, I cannot find any references to the word Librarian (outside of the "other works") or to the phrase "love life." If I knew what chapter you were referencing, I might be able to pinpoint what was actually in the passage. 

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Hope that helps.

[AonDorSmiteThisGuy She/her]

@Treamayne i dont have the passage but the exact quote is "more twisted than a librarian's love life (trust me theyre a strange bunch)"

Omg im so stupid its in tress not yumi

[Treamayne]

20 minutes ago, AonDorSmiteThisGuy said:

@Treamayne i dont have the passage but the exact quote is "more twisted than a librarian's love life (trust me theyre a strange bunch)"

Omg im so stupid its in tress not yumi

TES Ch 11:

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A treelike burst of vines exploded into existence inches away from Tress. More twisted than a librarian’s love life (trust me, they’re a strange bunch), it writhed with overlapping tendrils. It reminded Tress of her hair most mornings, before she got out her brush.

It likely is an author shout-out to his other work; but from Hoid's point of view there are likely no shortage of strange librarians he could be referencing - like (SA Spoilers) The herald masquerading as a Librarian in the Palanaeum in Kharbranth.

That said, the only non-Cosmere work that was originally in the Cosmere was Rithmatist - so Hoid making an in-Cosmere Earth reference is not likely. WoB:

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Questioner

Lines of Protection. Is the field generated once the line is completed? Or is it a progressive thing?

Brandon Sanderson

Almost everything that's going with this takes effect as the person's thinking of it taking effect. There is a mental connection. So, as you are drawing, until you are finished, there is nothing there;  unless, sometimes, you want it to be. There is a direct link. The Rithmatist does have a magic that is consistent with cosmere rules. I decided not to set it in the cosmere primarily because I did not want Earth to be in the cosmere.

Questioner

So how strongly consistent is it with <realmatic theory>?

Brandon Sanderson

I didn't keep myself completely to the rules. It could fit, but... don't take anything The Rithmatist does and apply it to the other books.

SpoCon 2013 (July 10, 2013)

 Hope that helps. 

[AonDorSmiteThisGuy She/her]

@Treamayne yes! That was what i was referencing. Yeah I guess it could be what you mentioned i just specifically think its referencing Alcatraz because of the situation with Alcatraz's mother being a librarian and leaving his father and all that jazz. Could just be an Easter egg but Brandon rarely just says stuff in my experience