FlashWrogan he/him Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 So I was looking at the ketek at the end of TWoK and noticed what I think is a discrepancy. I may be missing something, but I can't see it. “Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms— illuminate the silence above.”The above sample is noteworthy as it is a ketek, a complex form of holy Vorin poem. The ketek not only reads the same forward and backward (al lowing for alteration of verb forms) but is also divisible into five distinct smaller sections, each of which makes a complete thought. A ketek is supposed to have 5 section, but I only count 4. “Above silence,/ the illuminating storms—/dying storms— /illuminate the silence above.” Am I missing something?
Takeshi Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 Look to the titles of the 5 parts of the book. Above silence / the illuminating storms / dying / storms illuminate / the silence above Keteks read as a whole are supposed to make grammatical sense, but part divisions don't need to make grammatical sense (I'm assuming). Only that each part conveys a meaning. So singling out "the" as a single part wouldn't work because it doesn't have any meaning on it's own. 3
Windrunner he/him Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 Yeah, I think Takeshi's got it. Like Brandon said in the forum Q&A, he spent a huge amount of time working on that ketek. There's no way he forget how many parts it's supposed to have XD
Torian'Omil Stonespark Posted February 22, 2013 Posted February 22, 2013 I have to agree, and thanks for the look to the book breakdown...without it, well lets just say I was doing my own thing... Above silence/the illuminating storms/dying storms/illuminate/the silence above, but I certainly agree that you have this dead on.
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