Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180114010136/@comment-31763506-20180214212257

FerrumOmFIre wrote: Alonon is mirrored of Nalili. M(irror) is the 13 letter. There Names has so many opposites, but still looks the same, there might be more to this.

I recently watched a Youtube video of a German academic arguing that if you take the explicitly defined path of Rashkolnikov from his apartment to his murder victims' through the streets of St. Petersburg in Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", draw it on a map, and then increase that path's size, rotate it counterclockwise while moving it up and to the right, it becomes the path a crazed political assassin would take from the Peter and Paul fortress to the winter palace if he were to spontaneously murder the Tsar. Why it would occur to any reader to undertake this complex geometric comparison, what clues in text encourage one to do so, and why a political assassin would choose to start their assassination attempt from inside a prison are not explained.

I think that the above proposed speculation on the meaning of apparent mirroring of Alonon and Nalili's names is in the same oeuvre of textual analysis.

I would propose an alternate explanation for this apparent pattern.

"Words often have about the same number of vowel and consonant sounds."