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Valar Rereadis: The Hedge Knight - Part 4

History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)

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The Trial of 17

The Balor scene where his just brain falls out is the most disturbing and visceral scene in all the books to me. Even the people that get it, they understand what happened. They still can't help present dunk because it's just the pain, the realm will suffer without Balor. It's just so heavy but quite possibly written with some real world sorrow mingled into it. Think about JFK. JFK was killed when George was 15 years old. That's literally what JFK was at Roman Catholic Democrats. So it's the same wound, the same sort of like promise unrealized for this leader that so many people cared a lot about. If you didn't live through it, it really

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