D. T. Kane’s Epic Fantasy Book Club, Declaimer’s Discovery Prologue-Episode 28 (2:01)

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D. T. Kane reads the prologue of his epic fantasy fiction novel, Declaimer’s Discovery, and discusses it with his audience.

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Below are my notes from the episode, not a transcription:

PERSONAL UPDATE

Welcome back once again to the podcast. It’s Sunday, July 24, 2022 as I record this, episode 28 overall and the first episode of season 2! We chatted a bit before the episode began today, so I’m going to jump right into our analysis section.

ANALYSIS: PROLOGUE

Listen to the week’s episode to hear D. T. Kane discuss the prologue of Declaimer’s Discovery, including:

  • The prologue’s opening line: “Reading Books can get you killed, Stephan.” Sound familiar?
  • Who is this Stephan character?
    • Rings connected by chains on each finger
    • Colored robe
    • Able to Read and Write? (Duke Joseef says “I have kept your secret”)
    • Teaching a Reader to Scribe
    • Doesn’t seem to know what a Harbour is
  • Where are we? Somewhere we have yet to go in the Spoken Books universe!
  • The “role” Stephan has “assumed”
  • Legislation to give Speakers a day of rest
  • “Men can only take so much before they begin to resist.”
  • Scrivnic Dogma
    • The True Path?
    • Stephen says he’s been trying to subtly influence events, but already meddled too much, won’t stop the Speakers
  • What frightens Stephan?
  • What does Stephan find outside the Duke’s chambers?
  • What happened to his Harbour?
  • What do the three Speakers intend?
  • Butchering the Duke?
  • Who are the Warriors? Stephan says their plans a months away from being ready.
    • Mauve? Seems to be Warriors’ leader
    • Gahlfet is friendly to Speakers?
    • “The wicked man who smiles is still evil.”
  • “An act of desperation all those years ago corrupted the element of shadow.”
  • Stephan didn’t step aside. Rather, he… vanished?

Listen too for an exclusive look into the historical inspiration for the Spoken Books Uprising, the Haitian slave revolt!

  • Gahlfet
  • Boukman
  • The wheel

CONCLUSION

Homework: Read chapters 1 and 2. What do you make the sticky situation Baz finds himself in? How have he and Leanna been getting along since we left them in Part 1? And what do you think the guard wants with them?

Listener Question: Listen to the show to hear why D. T. Kane chose to independently publish his novels!

Quote:

“A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.”

-Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

Can knowledge ever be a bad thing? I’d argue no. Knowledge is neither inherently good nor evil. It is the use to which it is put that determines its morality.

What is unquestionably wrong, however, is restricting one’s ability to obtain knowledge. Therein lies a path to evil, for once acquisition of knowledge is restricted, inequity is sure to follow. It is a lack of knowledge—be it through laws, willful blindness, or simple ignorance—that is to blame for much of the world’s problems.

If we each could just ask a few more questions and read a few more books, how much better off would we all be?

Until next time, this has been D. T. Kane’s Epic Fantasy Book Club.

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