/lit/ - Literature

Is the Inverse Fire actually entropy and S=k ln W, thermodynamics? If the Inverse Fire is the product of reason, and the Water is passion, what would happen if they were united...

Is Qirri and the stained finger actually some commentary about democracy (inked finger, voting in the Middle East?) The language used in the novel of Apportioning seems to remind me of Muhasasa (sectarian apportionment, a reviled form of proportional representation / democratic allocation that led to more corruption and sectarian conflict)

There are some interesting parallels between Angeshrael and his wife named Esmenet (the prophet who bows his face into the fire) and Kellhus and his wife Esmenet (Kellhus contemplates the Inverse Fire)

Is Kellhus actually some sort of AI or google search algorithm. It is reflected in the glossary (strange unusual scifi terms like System Initiation. Also their high priest is called Pragma - if you do programming, you know this is a common compiler directive)

I also enjoyed the etymology of some names. Scylvendi, the barbarians, invokes the Sceafa / Scyldings, the sheaf folk of Beowulf