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Kvothe’s dire circumstances and dire need force him to hock all he owns to a pawnbroker. We talk about how Rothfuss uses poverty as a tool to raise the stakes and tension, how pawnbrokers work IRL, and thanks to a listener letter from friend of the show RJ, discuss Dal’s ulterior motivations for making Kvothe buy him lunch a while back. And we end on an important philosophical quandary - when is a beet not a beet? @pageofthewind pageofthewind.com If you want to donate to the SFWA’s Legal Fund to help them challenge Disney and ensure Alan Dean Foster is paid the royalties he is owed, here is the link: https://www.sfwa.org/about/benevolent-funds/legal-fund/