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  61.                   <div class="submitted">Posted on October 22nd, 2010 by Jennifer Liang</div>
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  65.         <p>During the San Diego ComicCon in 2005, just a few months before the publication of Knife of Dreams, Jordan had dinner with a group of fans. Jason Denzel reports that Jordan made the following statement: "Something that has previously happened in the series is going to be  revealed to have a terrible cost. When you read it your  reaction will be, 'Gasp. How horrible!'</p>
  66. <p>So what was the Gasp Moment? Many fans after reading KOD claimed to not find it, or when we they did read it, to find it underwhelming. Jordan felt strongly enough about the reaction (or lack thereof) to comment about it in <a href="http://www.dragonmount.com/forums/blog/4/entry-323-the-gasp-moment/">a blog entry</a>:</p>
  67. <blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">No,  I'm not going to reveal what the "gasp" moment is.  I certainly  won't  be putting any spoilers here.  But I have read the reviews, both   spoiler and non-spoiler.  For those who have read the book and believe  you  have identified the "gasp" moment, congratulations.  For those who  have  read the book and still don't know what the "gasp" moment is, my   sympathies.  I mean that in all truth.  You failed to see something   that really should have made you gasp.  I think I am fairly hardened,  but  occasionally something happens that makes me mutter, "Where are  you, God?   Are you sleeping?  Are you blind?"  This is fiction, but  even  so, I had to pause a couple of times in writing about it.  Of   course, I get deeply immersed in my work so that it becomes real to me  while I  am writing, but I hope to pull the reader into that level of  realness,  too.  Either I failed completely in this instance, or some of  you have  become way too hardened.  Too much on the evening news, I  suppose.   It's just today's hurricane, today's tsunami, today's  Armageddon.  I wonder  what's coming up at eleven?</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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