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|author=[[Corvana]]
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
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|Anak malah kaf, del makian habin yah
|A phrase from the Analectics, translated to mean, "To be human is to want that which we cannot have."{{book ref|sa1|60}}
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The '''Analectics''' wasis a book written by [[Corvana]] on [[Roshar]].{{book ref|sa1|60}}
 
== History ==
In the Analectics, wereCorvana collectedcompiled the chantssome of chants sung by the [[Vanrial]], whichan they'veorder hadof artists.{{book ref|sa1|60}} The Vanrial have sung these words year after year without understanding the words, whose meaning had been lost to time. The Vanrial claimed that these songs were written in the [[Dawnchant]] by the Heralds.{{book ref|twok|60}}
 
WhenPrincess [[Jasnah Kholin]] owned a copy of the Analectics, which she left on the [[Shattered Plains]] in the care of her uncle.{{book ref|sa1|60}} In 1173, when Brightlady [[Navani Kholin]] recorded the fourteenth vision that Highprince [[Dalinar Kholin]] had, she recognized that his last words as part of the Analectics.{{book ref|sa1|60}} She referred to Jasnah's copy and confirmed that it was identical to a quote from the Vanrial's songs. In doing so, she proved that Dalinar's visions were nonot delusionsfabrications, andbut rather drawn from somewhere else. This discovery also gotallowed for the possibility toof translatetranslating Analectics--andthe songs recorded in the Dawnchant--Analectics, as well.{{book ref|twok|60}}as the Dawnchant.
 
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