Jun-01-2010, 10:12 AM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Aug-24-2011, 10:12 PM (UTC) by Farseer.)
We have discussed how the Skill and the Wit works in a few different threads, but when I looked for a thread to post this none was really ABOUT that. So I'm starting one for future discussions!
OK this post is a relatively minor point about the Skill, but one that I found in Fool's Fate when looking for something else today.
When the Fool joins the coterie in their skilling, afterward Fitz is speaking of what happened between the two of them and thinks to himself:
'I called it the Skill yet I was not sure that was a proper name for it. As well call a spark the sun.'
I could easily put this down to Fitz (and the others) relatively limited experience in the Skill (they are still regaining lost knowledge), BUT are we to take this comment more seriously? IS there something other than the Skill involved here?
Thick also has a strange response to what happens, and Fitz puts this down to the fact that he was the only other one of the coterie actually aware of what was happening between Fitz and the Fool. But was there more to it? As he leaves 'Thick turned and gave the Fool an oddly appraising look'. This could be interpreted as him wondering just what is going on between Fitz and the Fool, but I think Thick has very little interest in human relationships per se, and a lot more interest in the Skill.
OK this post is a relatively minor point about the Skill, but one that I found in Fool's Fate when looking for something else today.
When the Fool joins the coterie in their skilling, afterward Fitz is speaking of what happened between the two of them and thinks to himself:
'I called it the Skill yet I was not sure that was a proper name for it. As well call a spark the sun.'
I could easily put this down to Fitz (and the others) relatively limited experience in the Skill (they are still regaining lost knowledge), BUT are we to take this comment more seriously? IS there something other than the Skill involved here?
Thick also has a strange response to what happens, and Fitz puts this down to the fact that he was the only other one of the coterie actually aware of what was happening between Fitz and the Fool. But was there more to it? As he leaves 'Thick turned and gave the Fool an oddly appraising look'. This could be interpreted as him wondering just what is going on between Fitz and the Fool, but I think Thick has very little interest in human relationships per se, and a lot more interest in the Skill.
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