Okay, so…my pet peeve is the famous library ter’angreal that was uncovered in Ebou Dar. Why is it that….is all that non-fictional knowledge ever going to come into play, and what’s wrong with Elayne that she’s not using it to find out some things that they probably desperately need to know? Or I guess she’s using it as a doorstop.
Well, 1) we haven’t seen Elayne in a whole book; we don’t really know what she’s doing, and 2) she has problems channeling because of this pregnancy deal, and 3) everything’s going to be in the Old Tongue and she’s a little busy to sit down and translate documents.
That’s true.
Oh, no!
Mmhmm, he did. And actually, Elayne—right now as we speak—is in her bed reading fiction on that.
I bet they’re dirty romance novels.
I was going to peg her for an urban fantasy fan.
No, no, no, no, no. She loves the Harlequins. Case closed.
Oh, the Harlequins. Yeah.
Yes, totally.
Either her or Aviendha, but one of those two is definitely into the Harlequin super-romance.
How can she get all excited about the cover art of Fabio when she’s got Rand ? [laughter]
Have you seen the cover of Lord of Chaos ?
Yeah, I’m telling you! No comparison.
Yeah, that one was nicknamed at our house ‘Passion of the Aes Sedai’. I actually had to take the dust jacket off of that one when I would take it to school, when I was in high school, because I was like, “I do not want people to think I’m reading some kind of filthy romance novel in class.”
Well, I’m thinking more of, what was it? A Crown of Swords ? Where he’s got the, uh…all he needs is some baby oil and a little less clothes and he looks like he’s posing…
We love fist-pumping, body-building Rand.
Don’t make me get out the water bottle to squirt you ladies. Jeez… [laughter]
I have a big cardboard cut-out of fist-pumping, baby-oil Rand in my garage right now. I use it as a [decoration] at conventions. [Amusingly, it was stolen at JordanCon 2011, a few months after this interview.]
Oh, cool.
Is that cool, or is that creepy?
Well, it’s a little insane I think.
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