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William Carlos Williams: “So much depends upon the red wedding.”
Virginia Woolf: “Jaime Lannister said he would screw his sister himself.”
James Joyce: “…Riverrun, past Stone Hedge and Raventree, from swerve of the Trident to bend of Blackwater Bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to King’s Landing.”
Samuel Beckett: “Winter can’t go on, winter will go on.”
T.S. Eliot: “Do I dare to eat a raw stallion heart?”
Gertrude Stein: “A Dothraki, that is a human horse man, a kind in creature and a cousin not unalike in disliking water. A sea and land on the plains of Essos are not dissimilar. There is no there there.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past, before Theon Greyjoy’s great big dick was cut off.”
Ezra Pound: “The apparition of Brienne in a crowd; Broadsword in a wet, deep wound.”
Marcel Proust: “For a long time, I used to go to bed early, mainly because that was the best way to avoid all the conspiring and whoremongering and torture. I’m all for an occasional Saturday debauch, but we’re talking every day of the week, and that was before Joffrey hit puberty.
Joseph Conrad: “Mistah Stark—he dead.”
Ernest Hemingway: “If you are unlucky enough to have lived in Winterfell as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Winterfell is an unmovable shitpile.”
W.B. Yeats: “A sudden hatch: the tiny wings beating still/ Above the staggering blond.”
Ford Maddox Ford: ”This is the saddest story I’ve ever watched on HBO since Luck…and the dirtiest since Hung.”
Tags: asoiaf, books, game of thrones, george rr martin, television
I spit my tea out at F. Scott.
I held onto mine until Conrad. A*
When the libruls win and humans are allowed to marry pieces of writing, I’m walking down the aisle towards this beauty. Bravo.
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
Dostoyevsky and Varys
“Everything is politics.”
-Thomas Mann or Littlefinger or Tywin or Tyrion i forget
George Orwell: We have always been at war with Westeros.
I actually laughed out loud at Fitzgerald, because I am a 12-year-old boy.
this is perfect, basically.
H.D.: All Westeros reviles / Cersei’s face when she smiles
Mina Loy: If you want to realize yourselves all your pet dragons must be unleashed.
Nella Larsen: The trouble with Lannisters was, not only that they wanted to have their cake and eat it too, but that they wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.
This is hard. I feel very strongly about modernist ladywriters but I have neither read nor watched GoT!
You did pretty good!
H.D.: All Westeros reviles / Cersei's face when she smiles
Mina Loy: If you want to realize yourselves all your pet dragons must be unleashed.
Nella Larsen: The trouble with Lannisters was, not only that they wanted to have their cake and eat it too, but that they wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.
This is hard. I feel very strongly about modernist ladywriters but I have neither read nor watched GoT!
The Joyce one reads like Joyce was born to write high fantasy. HAVE WE BEEN ROBBED OF BEAUTIFUL JOYCIAN HIGH FANTASY!?
Oh god I’m sorry I can’t stop myself don’t tell Mallory—Joycean. Ahhhh.
The Joyce one reads like Joyce was born to write high fantasy. HAVE WE BEEN ROBBED OF BEAUTIFUL JOYCIAN HIGH FANTASY!?
You did pretty good!
Blood is the mother’s milk of politics- Jesse Unruh
Sometimes a sword is just a sword- Sigmond Freud
You don’t ASK for power, you TAKE it- J.R. Ewing, Dallas
Last night’s episode totally did this:
“A man’s gotta have a code” – Omar Little, The Wire
YO. I WANT A POST CASTING THE CHARACTERS OF THE WIRE INTO HARRY POTTER HOUSES.
(shamelessly tacking this on to your post, something of a tangent, just had to get it off my chest, apols)
“Ezra Pound: “The apparition of Brienne in a crowd; Broadsword in a wet, deep wound.”
This, though. Damn.
I am not even much of a GoT fan, but I love this entire piece.