Ancestors

Written by Tyrion 🦜 on 2024-12-20 at 13:19

Excerpts from A Song of Ice and Fire that I think are very relevant to the reality that we live in today.

I post these from time to time, as I'm reminded of them when a topic catches my attention.

I'm making this toot as the root 🧵 of excerpts, since I keep running out of pinned toots on my profile, and I read that by pinning a root you can basically have "infinite" pins.

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Written by Tyrion 🦜 on 2024-12-20 at 17:32

"Mice, we called them then. The older thieves were fools who thought no further than turning a night’s plunder into wine. Varys preferred orphan boys and young girls. He chose the smallest, the ones who were quick and quiet, and taught them to climb walls and slip down chimneys. He taught them to read as well. We left the gold and gems for common thieves. Instead our mice stole letters, ledgers, charts … later, they would read them and leave them where they lay. Secrets are worth more than silver or sapphires, Varys claimed. Just so. I grew so respectable that a cousin of the Prince of Pentos let me wed his maiden daughter, whilst whispers of a certain eunuch’s talents crossed the narrow sea and reached the ears of a certain king. A very anxious king, who did not wholly trust his son, nor his wife, nor his Hand, a friend of his youth who had grown arrogant and overproud. I do believe that you know the rest of this tale, is that not so?"

"Much of it," Tyrion admitted. "I see that you are somewhat more than a cheesemonger after all."

~ excerpt from A Dance With Dragons, Tyrion II, by George RR Martin

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