![]() ![]() We are back in the steamy, sexually charged, treacherous, densely packed and wonderfully imagined fantasy world of George RR Martin and his vast sequence of novels, A Song of Ice and Fire. On page 17 Pate, the apprentice to whom these insults were addressed, having stolen the key to the maegicians’ Citadel and handed it over to a mysterious alchemist in exchange for the gold with which he hopes to pay to deflower young Rosey, instead falls to the cobbles, betrayed and poisoned and dying. The Dornish will f*** anything with a hole between its legs.’ ‘Your mother was a monkey from the Summer Isles. ![]() ![]() On page 8 there’s the first use of the f word, in a typically crude exchange: Emma had decreed that Rosey’s maidenhead would cost a golden dragon. Rosey was her daughter, fifteen and freshly flowered. She was the oldest of the serving wenches at the Quill and Tankard, forty if she was a day, but still pretty in a fleshy sort of way. He could hear Emma’s laughter coming through a shuttered window overhead, mingled with the deeper voice of the man she was entertaining. Prologue On page one some magicians’ apprentices are discussing how they’ll save up the money to pay to deflower Rosie, the newest whore in the tavern they’re drinking in: ![]()
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