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== Excerpts ==

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|I find this format most comfortable, as it is how I’ve collaborated in the past. I have never done it in this way, and with this kind of partner.

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|In my fevered state, I worry I’m unable to focus on what is important.

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|"When in such a state, detachment is enviable. I have learned that my greatest discoveries come when I abandon lesser connections."

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|This song—this tone, this rhythm—sounds so familiar, in ways I cannot explain or express.

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|I am led to wonder, from experiences such as this, if we have been wrong. We call humans alien to Roshar, yet they have lived here for thousands of years now. Perhaps it is time to acknowledge there are no aliens or interlopers. Only cousins.

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|It would have been so easy if Voidlight and Stormlight destroyed one another. Such a simple answer.

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|We must not let our desires for a specific result cloud our perceptions.

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|But how can we not, in searching, wish for a specific result? What scientist goes into a project without a hope for what they will find?

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|I find this experience so odd. I work with a scholar from the ancient days, before modern scientific theory was developed. I keep forgetting all the thousands of years of tradition you completely missed.

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|This point regarding the Rhythm of War’s emotional influence will be of particular interest to El.

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|Who is this person? You used no title, so I assume they are not a Fused. Who, then, is El?

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|In other circumstances, I would be fascinated by this sand to the point of abandoning all other rational pursuits. What is it? Where did it come from?

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|I am told that it is not the sand itself, but something that grows upon it, that exhibits the strange properties. One can make more, with proper materials and a seed of the original.

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|The sand originated offworld. It is only one of such amazing wonders that come from other lands—I have recently obtained a chain from the lands of the dead, said to be able to anchor a person through Cognitive anomalies. I fail to see what use it could be to me, as I am unable to leave the Rosharan system. But it is a priceless object nonetheless.

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|As we dig further into this project, I am left questioning the very nature of God. How can a God exist in all things, yet have a substance that can be destroyed?

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|I am not convinced any of the gods can be destroyed, so perhaps I misspoke. They can change state however, like a spren—or like the various Lights. This is what we seek.

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|Do not mourn for what has happened. This notebook was a dream we shared, which is itself a beautiful thing. Proof of the truth of my intent, even if the project was ultimately doomed.

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|I leave you now to your own company.

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|Opposites. Opposites of sounds. Sound has no opposite. It’s merely overlapped vibration, the same sound, but sound has meaning. This sound does, at least. These sounds. The voices of gods.

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|Voice of Lights. Voice for Lights. If I speak for the Lights, then I must express their desires. If Light is Investiture, and all Investiture is deity, and deity has Intent, then Light must have Intent.

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|Intent matters. Intent is king. You cannot do what I attempt by accident. You must mean it. This seems a much greater law than we’ve ever before understood.

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== Notes ==