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re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS
Posted on 8/6/13 at 11:34 pm to ffishstik
Posted on 8/6/13 at 11:34 pm to ffishstik
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"...The giant was dangling a bloody corpse by one leg...swinging it like a Morningstar...
He swung the dead knight against the grey stone of the tower, again and again and again, until the man's head was red and pulpy as a summer melon. The knight's cloak flapped in the cold air. Of white wool it had been, bordered in cloth of silver and patterned with blue stars"
quote:
SAGAL: Isn't it true that there's a character in your latest book that's there because you lost a bet about a football game?
MARTIN: Yes, in a way, yes, it is. That's true.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Well what happened?
MARTIN: Well there's this guy named Patrick St. Denis, who runs a fantasy website called Pat's Fantasy Hotlist. And Pat is a big Dallas Cowboys fan. So we would have a standing bet for a number of years about whether the Dallas Cowboys or the New York Giants would do better. And I won the bet the first two years. But finally, in the third year the Cowboys finished ahead of the Giants. And what I had to do if he won the bet was to kill him horribly within the books. So I invented a character called Ser Patrek of King's Mountain and described his heraldry as looking somewhat like the heraldry of the Dallas Cowboys with the silver star on a white field. And then I had him ripped apart by a giant.
excellent npr interview w/GRRM (Peter Sagal)
Posted on 8/7/13 at 1:42 am to shinerfan
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SAGAL: Isn't it true that there's a character in your latest book that's there because you lost a bet about a football game?
Which makes the whole thing even more genius. Either Martin managed to tie a bet with his friend into Jon's death and AA, or he's just trolling the hell out of us readers. Either way it's pretty amusing.
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