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There would be no ‘starting-back,’ if it were finished..

Please remind me of the details of those theories?

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“Because winter is coming.

Bran looked at the crow on his shoulder, & the crow looked back. It had 3 eyes, and the 3rd eye was full of a terrible knowledge.“
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”’Maester Luwin says there's nothing in dreams that a man need fear.'
'There is,' said Jojen.
'What?'
'The past. The future. The truth.‘“

Hi Sandra! 🤗
Confession, I have never read Dunk & Egg, apart from encountering greensee-related snippets of text via the search engine, so I’m not sure I’m qualified to critique it. What did you think?

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“this same Ser Arlan knighted you?"
Dunk shuffled his feet. One of his boots was half unlaced, he saw. "No one else was like to do it."
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"It was right," her father said. "& even the lie was…not without honor”…Now he took the blade [Needle] up again & walked to the window, where he stood…looking out

Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 42 and post your second sentence. Add #page42 and include this rule as a reply.

"Confront the water. Yet this element is not foreign soil;
I see the water as extension of my mind,
The troubled part, and waves the waves of mind”

It was Evita mgfs & WizztheSmith who were the pioneers of wind! I would not have seen the greensea without them 💚
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This one?

I never did find out what the covered bridge going from the 4th floor of the bell tower to the 2nd floor of the rookery meant! 😊

Also, the Winterfell wall path taken in, around,up & paradoxically ending on ground level echoes the House of the Undying’s ‘always up, always the door to your right’…

It comes from the notorious letter, “Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?”
’Enigmas’ being an anagram of ‘gamines,’ & ‘secrets’ as a synonym for ‘enigmas,’ suggests this is their code for what can’t be spoken aloud…However, the picture accompany the words is a visual metaphor leaving no doubt.

For a young girl, right? Prepubescent? Early adolescent?

@outerpanda.bsky.social @rustedrevolver.bsky.social Someone on fb pointed out that the word ‘enigmas’ is an anagram for the French word ‘gamines.’ @virginie.bsky.social Can you confirm the meaning of ‘gamine’?

AGOT prologue begins with

"We should start back"

AFFC prologue begins with

"Only when his arms and legs were numb from the cold did Aeron Greyjoy *struggle back* to shore and don his robes again"

Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, & then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do
TIMOTHY SNYDER

“The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice
His job is to shed light, and not to master
Since the end is never told, we pay the teller off in gold
In hopes he will come back, but he cannot be bought or sold…”
— GRATEFUL DEAD, ‘Terrapin Station’

George RR Martin has given me hundreds of hours of entertainment. There have been times in my life where obsessing about his worlds prevented me from obsessing and spiraling about my own.

He owes us nothing.

If he doesn’t write another word, I owe him a profound debt.

#freedom
“Power is only Pain -
Stranded - thro' Discipline,
Till Weights -will hang -
Give Balm - to Giants -
And they'll wilt, like Men -
Give Himmaleh -
They'll Carry - Him!”
EMILY DICKINSON

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#freedom
“Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.”
EMILY DICKINSON
— (Is she opening or closing the door…?)

“I trust you enjoyed the journey, Your Grace?” Robert snorted. “Bogs and forests and fields, and scarcely a decent inn north of the Neck. I’ve never seen such a vast emptiness. Where are all your people?” “Likely they were too shy to come out,” Ned jested. He could feel the chill coming up the stairs, a cold breath from deep within the earth. “Kings are a rare sight in the north.” “More likely they were hiding under the snow. Snow, Ned!” The king put one hand on the wall to steady himself as they descended. “Late summer snows are common enough,” Ned said. “I hope they did not trouble you. They are usually mild.” “The Others take your mild snows,” Robert swore. “What will this place be like in winter? I shudder to think.” “The winters are hard,” Ned admitted. “But the Starks will endure. We always have.”

A GAME OF THRONES: EDDARD I

#asoiaf #asongoficeandfire
#agameofthrones #agot
#eddardstark #nedstark #ned #eddard
#eddardI

As far as ‘non egalitarian relation’…
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Definitely. In fact, that is the answer to GRRM’s (via Varys’s) ‘riddle of power’!

…And that will keep you as busy and as happy as anyone can be, as long as your part in the Story goes on.

'Come now, ride with me!’”
JRR TOLKIEN, ‘The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings’

‘…You will be the Mayor, of course, as long as you want to be, and the most famous gardener in history; and you will read things out of the Red Book, and keep alive the memory of the age that is gone, so that people will remember the Great Danger, and so love their beloved land all the more…

‘…But you are my heir: all that I had and might have had I leave to you. And also you have Rose, and Elanor; and Frodo-lad will come, and Rosie-lass, and Merry, and Goldilocks, and Pippin; and perhaps more that I cannot see. Your hands and your wits will be needed everywhere…

…It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them…’

…'But,' said Sam, and tears started in his eyes, 'I thought you were going to enjoy the Shire, too, for years and years, after all you have done.'

'So I thought too, once. But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me…

…Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot always be torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do...’

“‘Where are you going, Master?' cried Sam, though at last he understood what was happening.

'To the Havens, Sam,' said Frodo.

'And I can't come.'

'No, Sam. Not yet, anyway, not further than the Havens. Though you too were a Ring-bearer, if only for a little while…