ASSORTED, LIKE, SNIPPETS

If Daughter of Smoke and Bone had a villain, it would have to be Thiago. Let's make a brief checklist of his villainous traits, shall we?

• Name that sounds like "Iago", that other great villain? Check.

So I have started to attend these conferences on literary translation this weekend at the Uni. The title of the event? El ojo de Polisemo (The Eye of Polysemus). Have you readers understood the pun?

Septones non carborundum!

Loras Tyrell is behind bars. At least in the series. All we can do is hope for his dad and nan to pay the ransom, or for Loras himself to break prison. For we want to see him STORM DRAGONSTONE!

JUDITH and HOLOFERNES

Conviction took her as she approached the wretch; he lay swooned from drink and debauchery. She gripped him by the hair as she brought his own weapon down upon his neck. Halfway did it stop and and he lay there breathing quietly from the cleft in his throat.
“Beast of land with tough neck as if of knotted wood!” she lamented.
Again a blow rained down sending the head of Holofernes rolling from the bed and across the carpeted floor of his tent.
“Glory! Glory! Glory!” crooned the scaled cherubs “do not settle as of yet, dear lady, bid your maid do retrieve the head and place it in a ration sack.” This she did, following the urges of the divine voices, and she rolled his body off the bed, and rent the canopy from its posts.

R.O.U.S. Rodents of Unusual Size, can only be captured with a Mega Neko. If you have got a Mega Neko, watch out for Canis Major.

Oberyn Martell was based upon Íñigo Montoya, but pushed up to eleven and beyond.
"Hello. My name is Oberyn Nymeros Martell. You killed my sister and her children. Prepare to die."

Moreover, The Princess Bride can teach lots of valuable lessons to Aspergers and their caregivers.


A certain lyric explains that a mere ranker can't wed a colonel's daughter:

When a lad first joins the army,
This is what he learns for starters:
Never court your colonel's daughter,
Or he'll have your guts for garters!
That's how it is and how it was
And how it always shall be.