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Sparky Sweets PhD on the girl whose forgiveness don’t quit even when freaky shit be goin’ down up in Thornfield Hall.
Sparky Sweets PhD breaks down Charlie D’s story of Pip, who be blind to the peeps that actually got his back.
Mo’ money, mo’ problems, bud.
Sparky Sweets tell how Liz try to kick it wit Darcy despite being insufficiently fly to roll wit his crew.
Previously: Thug Notes: 1984
Jan Hanlo’s poem De Mus at the Family Farm, Dublin Zoo.
It loses a little in translation from the Dutch.
(Thanks Andrew Sheridan)
Graphic designer Samantha Kemplen imagines the Houses of Westeros as a series of modern corporate identities.
George R.R. Martin, author of A Song Of Ice And Fire (of which Game Of Thrones is the first volume) blogged recently about the Iron Throne he actually imagines when writing:
It doesn’t exist. I made it up. I said it was made of melted swords, but really, it was made of words, like all such fictional constructs. Ah, but it’s real to me.
However, pointing to the above illustrations by Marc Simonetti he sez:
This Iron Throne is massive. Ugly. Assymetric. It’s a throne made by blacksmiths hammering together half-melted, broken, twisted swords, wrenched from the hands of dead men or yielded up by defeated foes… a symbol of conquest… it has the steps I describe, and the height. From on top, the king dominates the throne room. And there are thousands of swords in it, not just a few. This Iron Throne is scary. And not at all a comfortable seat, just as Aegon intended.
Of the Iron Throne featured in the HBO series (above) he sez:
The HBO throne has become iconic. And well it might. It’s a terrific design, and it has served the show very well. There are replicas and paperweights of it in three different sizes. Everyone knows it. I love it. I have all those replicas right here, sitting on my shelves.And yet, and yet… it’s still not right. It’s not the Iron Throne I see when I’m working on THE WINDS OF WINTER. It’s not the Iron Throne I want my readers to see. The way the throne is described in the books… HUGE, hulking, black and twisted, with the steep iron stairs in front, the high seat from which the king looks DOWN on everyone in the court… my throne is a hunched beast looming over the throne room, ugly and assymetric…The HBO throne is none of those things. It’s big, yes, but not nearly as big as the one described in the novels. And for good reason. We have a huge throne room set in Belfast, but not nearly huge enough to hold the Iron Throne as I painted it. For that we’d need something much bigger, more like the interior of St. Paul’s Cathedral or Westminster Abbey, and no set has that much room. The Book Version of the Iron Throne would not even fit through the doors of the Paint Hall.
Sparky Sweets breaks down the tale of the totalitarian po-po that’s keepin’ tabs on all yo’ shit.
Previously: Thug Notes, Playa (The Great Gatsby and To Kill A Mockingbird)
Nay writes:
On Wednesday 17 July at the alternative arts space Siteation, nine Irish writers will read examples of their work, poetry, short stories and excerpts from novels in progress. Doors open at 7:30 and it runs until 11pm, with each reading lasting about 15 minutes. It’s a free event with donations welcomed, to go towards the upkeep of Siteation.
(Poster by Dublin illustrator Rob Mirolo)