Santa Monica, CA Signing
Mighty Morgno
about 5 minutes after six last night (October 28). We were given
numbers 23 and 24. Robert Jordan hadn't arrived so everyone just
milled around inside the store which became quite warm. I was wearing
my Bela '96 button (ftp://netcom.com/pub/morgno/wot/bela.gif), but
nobody commented on it. I heard no indication that any other rasfwrj
readers were present, but then, I didn't ask. Someone had two children
there, but they seemed ordinary children, not wide eyed and clinging,
and I had no reason to suspect that Moghedien was among the crowd.
About 6:20, they started lining us up, announced a three book limit and
requested that we write our names down so he would know how to sign it.
I would guess there were maybe fifteen people behind us before the
line went out the door.
A brief moment later, he entered the back of the store wearing, as
foreshadowed in the previous signing reports, the hat and carrying the
trolloc-horn cane. The hat and cane were more impressive than I had
expected. His wife (I presume - no announcement or introductions were
made) has a streak of white in her hair, so I immediately wondered if
she were one of the Black Ajah, but she has far too much presence and
charisma for that.
From reading reports from the other signings, I knew there wasn't much
point in asking any substantive questions. Since the books usually do
answer the questions eventually, there's no need to ask what's going to
happen - in fact, such are really spoilers anyway. One young man was
brandishing three printed pages of questions. The YM stationed himself
off Jordan's left shoulder and sort of shouted out questions whenever
there was a pause in the action. I don't expect he got much, but
perhaps if the YM is one of us, he'll post his results here.
Things I overheard:
o The YM asked "who was BAY-doe-mun." There was a pause (I
speculated this was a mispronunciation of Beidomon and Jordan had
to figure out what was being asked) followed by the usual, "you'll
have to read the books."
o Jordan: "I've stopped saying how many more books there will be."
o Jordan: "No prequels, no sequels, and no one else writing in my
universe." The latter is certainly a relief.
When we got to the head of the line, Harriet was taking the books, and
opening them to get them ready. I handed her a copy of Reagan O'Neal's
_The Fallon Blood_, and asked if he would mind signing it. She
exclaimed over how long it had been since she'd seen that book. He
exclaimed over it too, and signed it, "Reagan O'Neal." I asked him if
_Lord Valentine's Castle in any way inspired the menagerie scenes and
he said, "No." I showed him my Bela '96 button, and he said, "So
you're not one of those who think she's a darkfriend?"
Lorie and I went and begged the Tor rep for posters while Aline was
getting her books signed. He looked in his trunk, but no posters.
Then we left. The line was still out the door, but only two or three
people worth.
The limo was black, FWIW.
--
Michael Thompson
Castle Morgno
mor...@netcom.com
Jared S. Samet
: In article <morgnoCy...@netcom.com>, mor...@netcom.com (Mighty Morgno) writes:
: > o The YM asked "who was BAY-doe-mun." There was a pause (I
: > speculated this was a mispronunciation of Beidomon and Jordan had
: > to figure out what was being asked) followed by the usual, "you'll
: > have to read the books."
: Nothing wrong with that pronunciation: consider "vein", "neighbor", and so on.
: Indeed, that is really the normal pronunciation of "ei", unless it is in "cei".
: Actually, Jordan s spelling makes even less sense than standard English
: spelling
I know, I know, I shouldn't be posting things on spelling. But I have a
question for you. First of all, are you a native speaker of English? I've
been reading your posts with great puzzlement and resisting the urge to
ask if your misspellings are intentional. But when I saw you posting on
spelling, my curiosity couldn't be contained. Anyway, is all of this
intentional? Or are you foreign? If so, where from and why is your
address/location so messed up?
No offense intended, just wondering.
--Jared "Osan'gar" Samet
halasz
> speculated this was a mispronunciation of Beidomon and Jordan had
> to figure out what was being asked) followed by the usual, "you'll
> have to read the books."
Nothing wrong with that pronunciation: consider "vein", "neighbor", and so on.
Don HARLOW
>
>In article <morgnoCy...@netcom.com>, mor...@netcom.com (Mighty Morgno) writes:
>> o The YM asked "who was BAY-doe-mun." There was a pause (I
>> speculated this was a mispronunciation of Beidomon and Jordan had
>> to figure out what was being asked) followed by the usual, "you'll
>> have to read the books."
>
>and ask Jordan to kindly pronounce each name. We could then store the
>names at the ftp or web site and thus everone could know how to pronounce
>each.
>
>Anybody willing to try this?
>
Far too late for me to do that, but I overheard Jordan say
"Semirhage" to somebody. It came out "seh-mih-RAHJ^", where J^ is the
French J or the English S in "pleasure".
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Daniel Rouk
In article <morgnoCy...@netcom.com>, mor...@netcom.com (Mighty Morgno) writes:
> o The YM asked "who was BAY-doe-mun." There was a pause (I
> speculated this was a mispronunciation of Beidomon and Jordan had
> to figure out what was being asked) followed by the usual, "you'll
> have to read the books."
It would be nice if someone could have a list of names and a tape recorder
and ask Jordan to kindly pronounce each name. We could then store the
names at the ftp or web site and thus everone could know how to pronounce
each.
Anybody willing to try this?
Danny Rouk
d...@uncecs.edu
Andrea Lynn Leistra
>d...@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Daniel Rouk) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <CyLJx...@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>:
>>
>>In article <morgnoCy...@netcom.com>, mor...@netcom.com (Mighty Morgno) writes:
>>It would be nice if someone could have a list of names and a tape recorder
>>and ask Jordan to kindly pronounce each name. We could then store the
>>names at the ftp or web site and thus everone could know how to pronounce
>>each.
>>
>>Anybody willing to try this?
>>
>Far too late for me to do that, but I overheard Jordan say
>"Semirhage" to somebody. It came out "seh-mih-RAHJ^", where J^ is the
>French J or the English S in "pleasure".
Which, IIRC, is very different from the glossary's pronunciation (I know
because I had been pronouncing it as seh-mih-RAHJ, looked it up, and saw a
hard "G" at the end) (again, IIRC...)
Goes to show how much you can trust glossary pronounciations. It suggests
"saidin" and "saidar" have three syllables each...does anyone pronounce
them that way? (I say sai-din and sai-dar, it says sa-ih-deen and
sa-ih-dar).
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Carolyn Fusinato
>It would be nice if someone could have a list of names and a tape recorder
>and ask Jordan to kindly pronounce each name. We could then store the
>names at the ftp or web site and thus everone could know how to pronounce
>each.
There are audio versions of the books (which I've heard suck) if you
want to shell out the money for them. I'd assume that the names are
pronounced accurately, but I don't know. Moiraine
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Joe Uno Shaw
> Don HARLOW <do...@netcom.com> wrote:
> >Far too late for me to do that, but I overheard Jordan say
> >"Semirhage" to somebody. It came out "seh-mih-RAHJ^", where J^ is the
> >French J or the English S in "pleasure".
> Which, IIRC, is very different from the glossary's pronunciation (I know
> because I had been pronouncing it as seh-mih-RAHJ, looked it up, and saw a
> hard "G" at the end) (again, IIRC...)
I've always pronounced it the way Don Harlow said RJ does, and its
also how I pronounce the glossary's pronounciation, Andrea.
> Goes to show how much you can trust glossary pronounciations. It suggests
> "saidin" and "saidar" have three syllables each...does anyone pronounce
> them that way? (I say sai-din and sai-dar, it says sa-ih-deen and
> sa-ih-dar).
I usually pronounce them the same way you do (two syllables). But,
if you say "sai-din" and "sai-dar" will a "Southern Drawl" by drawing
it out a bit, it could match the three syllable glossary defintion.
I noticed that holds for several of the glossary defintions one time
I was _really_ bored. So, those of you who've been to a signing, does
Robert Jordan have a bit of a Southern accent? (If he had a deep
accent, I've expect someone would've mentioned it.)
FWLIW,
- Joe
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