Jayson’s Reviews > A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms > Status Update

Notes:
(1) This one really picked up at the end, not enough to make it my favorite of the bunch, but a solid tie for number two.
(2) Imagine my amusement when I heard stated in the book's afterword to expect more tales of "our hedge knight and his squire in the years to come."
- What's it been, a decade since this book was published? and still not a single additional story.

Notes:
(1) "They woke Dunk from a pleasant dream involving Tanselle Too-Tall and the Red Widow."
- I can only imagine what "pleasant" is a euphemism for.
(2) Dunk: "You'll do better with a proper master-at-arms to see to your training."
Egg: "I don’t want a proper master-at-arms. I want you."
- Quite a backhanded compliment; a backhand to Dunk for all the clouts in the ear.

Notes:
(1) "Suckling pig ... a peacock roasted in its plumage; a great pike crusted with crushed almonds ... salt pork, soaked in almond milk and peppered pleasantly ... capons, crisped up nice and brown and stuffed with onions, herbs, mushrooms, and roasted chestnuts..."
- Three separate food lists in just the first third of this story!
- I had to cut this one off halfway.

Notes:
(1) Rohanne: "You have large feet ... Large hands as well. I think you must be large all over."
- Suddenly it's all subtext and sexual innuendo.
- "Large all over" mirrors Dunk's repeated thought "I'll bet she's freckled all over."
(2) Rohanne offers Dunk a horse with "a long fiery mane." He declines.
- The horse symbolizes her, of course. She has a "long red braid."

Notes:
(1) "Dunk gave Egg a clout in the ear."
- I guess it's not an empty threat.
(2) "There had been days when Dunk had set Egg to chasing chickens. It helps make him quicker, he thought, but he knew that if he said it, [Lady Webber] would laugh."
- I'm pretty sure Martin got the idea from Rocky II: "If you can catch this [chicken] you can catch greased lightning!"

Notes:
(1) "'Nasty stuff, water,' Bennis said. 'Drank some once, and it made me sick as a dog. Wine's better.'"
- True enough! Whenever I go back to the Philippines, my relatives always warn me against drinking local water. I'll have either distilled water or beer.
(2) Dunk's always threatening Egg with "a clout in the ear."
- An empty threat. It's his "To the moon, Alice!"

Notes:
(1) Egg: "I remember, when I was little, [Aerion] used to come into my bedchamber at night and put his knife between my legs. He had too many brothers, he'd say, maybe one night he'd make me his sister, then he could marry me."
- I forgot how Targaryens go all Ptolemaic and practice incest.
- I doubt castrating and marrying Egg would preserve the blood of the dragon.

Notes:
(1) Puppeteer: "Tanselle Too-Tall, the boys used to call me."
Dunk: "You're not too tall ... You're just right for…"
Puppeteer: "For?"
Dunk: "Puppets."
- Reminds me of "From Russia With Love," when Tatiana Romanova says her mouth is too big. James Bond replies, "No, it’s the right size… for me that is."
- Though, obviously, Dunk's not making any sexual innuendo here.

Notes:
(1) So, I originally planned to listen to this back during my big "A Song of Ice and Fire" audiobook reread of 2019/2020, but never followed through.
- The whole point being that the sixth book was slated to come out by the end of the year and rereading the series was about getting back up to speed. Of course, it didn't come out, and I guess I just wanted to move on.