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| Ieri ho riparlato con Madoran del termine "Pillow Friend", usato da Jordan in riferimento alla relazione fra due ammesse o due novizie all'interno della Torre Bianca. Non conosco la traduzione scelta per l'italiano, ma il significato è uno solo: prima di diventare Aes Sedai, durante il duro addestramento nella Torre, alcune donne hanno rapporti omosessuali. Il termine si prestava ad ambiguità interpretative, ma lo stesso Jordan ha esplicitamente spiegato cosa avesse voluto intendere: CITAZIONE "Pillow friends are not just good friends. Oh, they are that, too, but they also get hot and sweaty together and muss up the sheets something fierce. By the way, pillow friends is a term used in the White Tower. The same relationship between men or women elsewhere would be called something else, depending on the country. " [The Official Robert Jordan Blog, September 30, 2005] ed anche nei libri compaiono espliciti riferimenti (io ricordavo questa discussione, ma non riuscivo a ricollocarla all'interno degli 11 libri '). Nel nono libro:"...I had a little talk alone with Shalon. After a little gentle questioning, she spilled out the whole story, and Ailil confirmed everything once she realized I already knew. Soon after the Sea Folk first arrived here, Ailil approached Shalon hoping to learn what they wanted with young al’Thor. For her part, Shalon wanted to learn whatever she could about him, and about the situation here. That led to meetings, which led to friendship, which led to them becoming pillow-friends. As much from loneliness as anything else, I suspect. In any case, that was what they were hiding more than their mutual snooping.”
“They put up with days under the question to hide that?” Cadsuane said incredulously… Verin’s eyes twinkled with suppressed mirth.
“Cairhienin are prim and prudish, Cadsuane, in public at least. They might carry on like rabbits when the curtains are drawn, but they wouldn’t admit to touching their own husbands if anyone might overhear! And the Sea Folk are almost as strait-laced. At least, Shalon is married to a man with duties elsewhere, and breaking marriage vows is a very serious crime…" [Winter’s Heart, Wonderful News] In "New Spring":Moirane e Siuan sono "Pillow Friends" Edited by Aylee Sedai - 8/7/2009, 09:31
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