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xthe10thdoctorI've been reading George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords.
Ever hit a really unfortunate bit of text...look, you'll see what I mean. The context is a king delivering a rant on the loyalty of some of his men.
Claw Island is held weakly, yes. Held by women and children and old men. And why is that? Because their husbands and sons and fathers died on the Blackwater, that's why. Died at their oars, or with swords in their hands, fighting beneath our banners. Yet Ser Axell proposes we swoop down on the homes they left behind, to rape their windows and put their children to the sword.
Yes, really.
That's why you never take MS Word's first suggestion. I am never going to get that image out of my head.
Ever hit a really unfortunate bit of text...look, you'll see what I mean. The context is a king delivering a rant on the loyalty of some of his men.
Claw Island is held weakly, yes. Held by women and children and old men. And why is that? Because their husbands and sons and fathers died on the Blackwater, that's why. Died at their oars, or with swords in their hands, fighting beneath our banners. Yet Ser Axell proposes we swoop down on the homes they left behind, to rape their windows and put their children to the sword.
Yes, really.
That's why you never take MS Word's first suggestion. I am never going to get that image out of my head.
