Friday, March 22, 2019

Book Excerpt for the Day


    “Adonalsium.”

    Dalinar frowned more deeply.  “What?”

    Wit scratched his face.  “Have you ever heard the term, Dalinar?”

    “Ado … what?”

    “Nothing,” Wit said.  He seemed preoccupied., unlike his usual self.  “Nonsense.  Balderdash.  Piggldygrak.  Isn’t it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them – yet wholly unlike them at the same time?”

    Dalinar frowned.

    “I wonder if you could do that to a man.  Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk.  Then combine them back together again into something else, like a Dysian Aimian.  If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me.  Or perhaps Gibletfish.”

    (from The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson)

  9*/10.  The complete review is here.
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