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#1 Dr Trouble

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 11:05 AM

Quick question:

I'm re-reading The WoT for the first time in about 8 years, just reached the 3rd book and I was confonted with the map of Tar Valon.

Now, am I just being crude, or is it the image of a vagina? I'm almost certain my 14 year old self didn't notice it the first time reading ... Maybe its just me.

Thoughts?

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 11:15 AM

I think Jordan had issues.

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 11:36 AM

Trouble, on 02 May 2010 - 11:05 AM, said:

on this issue i have to say that it is a co'incidence.
tar valon was supposed to be an islan in a river that is connceted geographically.
i don't remember specifically, but it looks like that in context.
that aside, the series is so full of chovinism and racism, that one vagina more or less is realy not that important.

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 12:44 PM

Tar Valon

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 12:55 PM

Pics or it didn't happen!

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 01:02 PM

If that's a vagina, I definitely don't want to go to there. I mean, look at all the spots on the outside! Looks like saidar's got the taint

It totally is a vagina, though. Apt is right - Jordan had issues.

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 01:05 PM

I'm sure a vagina-shaped island controlled by hundreds of bitchy women who live in the centre of the island in a huge tower, thrusting firmly into the sky in vaguely phallic fashion, is just a coincidence.

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 01:28 PM

Freud would have a field day...

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 01:30 PM

Illuyankas, on 02 May 2010 - 01:05 PM, said:

you realy are reading too much into it.
RJ's biggest mistake was to make it seem as if wot was the far future of an alternate earth.
the maps are just ridiculous, as if whoever made them (RJ i presume) didn't bother with his job.

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 09:37 AM

I have posted about this before, even here I think. Definitely not a coincidence.

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 11:33 PM

No, I believe Jordan certainly has issues. I showed it to my gf's sister who immediately went "Ewww, dirty!"

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 11:36 PM

That said, Northharbor and Southarbor appear to be accurately placed g-spots. Lol!

I mean, what better to make the land look like where the female mages make their fortress.

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 11:50 PM

lol, wat?

I have a Northharbor, but not a Southharbor.

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Posted 04 May 2010 - 12:05 AM

Terez, on 03 May 2010 - 11:50 PM, said:

lol, wat?

I have a Northharbor, but not a Southharbor.

To be crude, one's a clit and the other is a g-spot. That's what he was referring to.

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Posted 04 May 2010 - 12:24 AM

amphibian, on 04 May 2010 - 12:05 AM, said:

Terez, on 03 May 2010 - 11:50 PM, said:

lol, wat?

I have a Northharbor, but not a Southharbor.

To be crude, one's a clit and the other is a g-spot. That's what he was referring to.

erm. my turn!

lol, wat?

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Posted 04 May 2010 - 12:24 AM

Yeah, but it still doesn't make sense really. Southharbor might be an anus (it should be further down the river), but the g-spot should be somewhere on the north side of the Tower.

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Posted 04 May 2010 - 12:30 AM

Meybes southharbor is the perineum?

I'll leave the giant quivering vagina jokes to Illy. This time.

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Posted 04 May 2010 - 12:35 AM

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Posted 04 May 2010 - 12:52 AM

Jusentantaka, on 04 May 2010 - 12:24 AM, said:

erm. my turn!

lol, wat?

Pardon me, I should have been clearer. At this point, the information about the location of the g-spot is confusing to most males. Most of the men I've talked to subscribe to a rough theory of "it's somewhere on the lower end" (perhaps referring to something else down there that's been confused with the g-spot). So we end up with QuickTidal joking about a definite North harbor site and a possible South harbor site.

I sort of know it's not in the southern regions, but am lucky enough not to have had to go looking for the dang thing and am content to just badly explain jokes...

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Posted 04 May 2010 - 01:03 AM

Hint: You put your index and middle finger inside, with your palm facing Madame Clitoria. Bend fingers upwards. Plus points for syncopation.

Also, its not pee.