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Interview #938: AMOL Signing Report - Anna Hornbostel, Entry #2

Question

Tell me why there are so many references to peach pits in the Wheel of Time.

Brandon Sanderson

Harriet? (laughter)

Harriet McDougal

I’ve never counted them! (laughter) I will tell you this, though, that peach pits do…. someone wrote and said, “When did peaches become poisonous?” And I said, “You know, they’re not.” One of Robert Jordan’s great themes was the unreliability of information, that we all think we know things that sometimes are absolutely cuckoo, and that’s one of them. We do…if a child manages to eat a peach pit, chewing on it to get at the kernel inside, then you have to call poison control. That’s true now, so that’s why. I guess. (laughter) I don’t know how many references there are.

Footnote

Harriet is referring to her interview with Luckers, which was conducted by email.

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