Just A Thing I Noticed

[+Slowswift]

This may have already been pointed out, but I didn't see any topic to do with this, so here we go.

 

Some time ago I was perusing WoK for the umpteenth time, and I came across this quote in "Of Alds and Milp," one of the Kaladin flashback chapters:

 

"Some people -- like a festering finger or a leg shattered beyond repair -- just needed to be removed." -- The Way of Kings, p. 586

 

Sound familiar? In the Words of Radiance chapter "The One Who Killed Promises," the following is found:

 

"Some people -- like a festering finger or a leg shattered beyond repair -- just needed to be removed." -- Word of Radiance, p. 751

 

Sneaky, sneaky Brandon Sanderson. 

[Kobold King he/him]

A dramatic echo--common in fiction, but as usual put to particularly good use by our beloved Author. Re-reading Sanderson's works always seems to uncover multiple layers of brilliance.

[Topomouse he/him]

I don't get what it is that you are pointing it out. Yeah in WoK we see Kaladin's flashback of when Tien died and Kaladin hears that phrase from the officer who used him as bait, and then in WoR he remember those words when thinking about killing the king since they were very relevant to the situation. I don't get what's so special about it.

[+Slowswift]

@Topomouse: There isn't anything really mega-Cosmere-special about it. Just dramatic echo, as Kobold pointed out. I just thought it was interesting.

Edited February 23, 2015 by Slowswift

[Meg]

I don't get what it is that you are pointing it out. Yeah in WoK we see Kaladin's flashback of when Tien died and Kaladin hears that phrase from the officer who used him as bait, and then in WoR he remember those words when thinking about killing the king since they were very relevant to the situation. I don't get what's so special about it.

You didn't look at that part in The Way of Kings, did you? Then you would have seen that it's not at all about the scene with Tien. Its the last sentence of Chapter 41 (as Slowswift said).

 

Your mixing up two -- yet important -- phrases that Kaladin has imprinted in his head. What you mean is:

 

Gotta do what you can to stay alive, a voice from his past seemed to whisper. Turn a liability into an advantage….

 

The Way of Kings, Chapter 32

 

It comes up in other chapters, too, also in the chapter with Tien's death.

[Topomouse he/him]

Ops...

You are right, I went by memory and mixed up the two phrases since they both come up in regard to Elkohar's assassination.

 

@Slowswift: NO problem, I just wanted to know if there was something more to what you pointed out.

[hoidhunter he/him]

I like this...we should talk about things like this more often.