I waited for him to continue. When he didn’t, I asked, “What makes this a good place?”
He looked out over the water for a long time before he answered. “It is an edge,” he said at last. “It is a high place with a chance of falling. Things are more easily seen from edges. Danger rouses the sleeping mind. It makes some things clear. Seeing things is a part of a namer.”
“What about falling?” I asked.
“If you fall, you fall,” Elodin shrugged. “Sometimes falling teaches us things too. In dreams you often fall before you wake.”
©2011 Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two)
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