Exile - Part Five (Interlude)
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i_read_whatSo last time, a lot of things happened! Drizzt found out that his father is a homicidal undead zombie! Clacker saved his life but may be dying! Everything is super emotional and tense!
Which means of course, we're going to interrupt everything with yet another journal entry.
I rant every time, but I really don't understand the point of these journal entries. It's not like Salvatore's a bad writer. He's not one that wallows in his characters' angst and torment, but he doesn't write cold fish characters either. He was perfectly capable of showing us young Drizzt's horror and betrayal last chapter. We don't need future Drizzt poking his head in to go "by the way, I was very sad."
Though, I might forgive these entries if they WERE like that. If Drizzt said something like, "At the time, I was so busy running and fighting to survive that the true horror of what happened to my father didn't sink in until much later. Even now, sometimes I wake up from nightmares where I'm trapped inside my own body while someone else makes me hurt the people that I love."
But it's not like that. Instead, they basically read like Drizzt is writing a college application essay on the theme of "spirit".
And it still tends to ruin the plot twists. Like...this one:
Spirit. It cannot be broken and it cannot be stolen away. A victim in the throes of despair might feel otherwise, and certainly the victim’s “master” would like to believe it so. But in truth, the spirit remains, sometimes buried but never fully removed.
That is the false assumption of Zincarla and the danger of such sentient animation. The priestesses, I have come to learn, claim it as the highest gift of the Spider Queen deity who rules the drow. I think not. Better to call Zin-carla Lolth’s greatest lie.
The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They are one and the same, a compilation of a singular being. It is in the harmony of these three—body, mind, and heart—that we find spirit.
Gosh, I wonder what's going to come of this upcoming confrontation, with all this talk about how the body, mind and emotions can't be separated!
And just to reinforce the college essay theme, he ends it this way:
Spirit. In every language in all the Realms, surface and Underdark, in every time and every place, the word has a ring of strength and determination. It is the hero’s strength, the mother’s resilience, and the poor man’s armor. It cannot be broken, and it cannot be taken away. This I must believe.
Go away, you pontificating git, and let your much less irritating younger self reclaim the stage.
Which means of course, we're going to interrupt everything with yet another journal entry.
I rant every time, but I really don't understand the point of these journal entries. It's not like Salvatore's a bad writer. He's not one that wallows in his characters' angst and torment, but he doesn't write cold fish characters either. He was perfectly capable of showing us young Drizzt's horror and betrayal last chapter. We don't need future Drizzt poking his head in to go "by the way, I was very sad."
Though, I might forgive these entries if they WERE like that. If Drizzt said something like, "At the time, I was so busy running and fighting to survive that the true horror of what happened to my father didn't sink in until much later. Even now, sometimes I wake up from nightmares where I'm trapped inside my own body while someone else makes me hurt the people that I love."
But it's not like that. Instead, they basically read like Drizzt is writing a college application essay on the theme of "spirit".
And it still tends to ruin the plot twists. Like...this one:
Spirit. It cannot be broken and it cannot be stolen away. A victim in the throes of despair might feel otherwise, and certainly the victim’s “master” would like to believe it so. But in truth, the spirit remains, sometimes buried but never fully removed.
That is the false assumption of Zincarla and the danger of such sentient animation. The priestesses, I have come to learn, claim it as the highest gift of the Spider Queen deity who rules the drow. I think not. Better to call Zin-carla Lolth’s greatest lie.
The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They are one and the same, a compilation of a singular being. It is in the harmony of these three—body, mind, and heart—that we find spirit.
Gosh, I wonder what's going to come of this upcoming confrontation, with all this talk about how the body, mind and emotions can't be separated!
And just to reinforce the college essay theme, he ends it this way:
Spirit. In every language in all the Realms, surface and Underdark, in every time and every place, the word has a ring of strength and determination. It is the hero’s strength, the mother’s resilience, and the poor man’s armor. It cannot be broken, and it cannot be taken away. This I must believe.
Go away, you pontificating git, and let your much less irritating younger self reclaim the stage.
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Date: 2022-11-07 12:52 pm (UTC)And now I just imagined Maetron Baenre as Yzma. Shit.
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Date: 2022-11-07 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-07 03:49 pm (UTC)You'll see when you get there.
Though, I might be misremembering, so... yeah.
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Date: 2022-11-07 07:58 pm (UTC)