That was all the time available for questions. Brandon then said “We are going to do a very short reading, and what we’re going to do is have Harriet read to you one paragraph.” To which Harriet replied “I was afraid that’s what ‘we’ meant”.
So Harriet read the first paragraph of the first chapter of the last volume of the Wheel of Time. It is verbatim identical to the same paragraph in the Eye of the World, because the wind rises out of the Mountains of Mist. When she came to the final phrase, she invited the crowd to recite with her, “But it was a beginning”, which drew a huge ovation.
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