Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 4: Entirely the Wrong Sort of Songs
The Name of the Wind. WMF = The Wise Man’s Fear. DT = Day Three, the forthcoming final volume. K = Kvothe or Kote when I can’t figure out what to call him and I’m feeling Kafkaesque. Spoilers and speculations below. Chapter Sixteen is called Hope, and it is the terrible chapter in which Kvothe’s troupe are killed by the Chandrian. The hope is that his parents didn’t waste their time preparing dinner but had a little time to be together before they died… and that’s about as hopeful as it gets. There’s a lot in this chapter. To start with, they’re traveling fifteen or twenty...
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