Già qualche anno fa, quando la serie procedeva verso la quinta stagione e Martin si diceva fiducioso di riuscire a concludere la saga prima di GoT mi facevo delle grasse risate... Ormai non ci si fa più caso.
Il 11/8/2017 at 12:29, niphredil dice:Mi hanno detto dei miei amici che Martin ha appena fatto una diretta su Amazon per sponsorizzare il libro di un altro scrittore, hanno fatto una sorta di Q&A e Martin ha ribadito il fatto che sta ancora scrivendo il libro e che è ancora indietro. Non riesco a trovare molto però, qualcuno ha seguito?
In questi giorni è in corso il Worldcon75 (prima volta a Helsinki).
alcune foto di Martin: 1 2 3
la diretta a cui ti riferivi : At Worldcon, @GRRMspeaking speaks with @markokloos about#WildCards, #ASoIaF, and more: http://ow.ly/6KBf30ekO4t
OT? Stalkerando sempre Elio&Linda ho beccato questo: The Martin Studies International Network is about to launch! Stay tuned! (The Martin Studies International Network is the first scholarly association devoted to the work of George R.R. Martin. Join us!)
"It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself".
Federalist No. 51, The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments, in The Federalist Papers, a collection of essays written in favour of the new Constitution as agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
2 hours fa, Mar dice:la diretta a cui ti riferivi : At Worldcon,
@GRRMspeaking speaks with@markokloos about#WildCards,#ASoIaF, and more: http://ow.ly/6KBf30ekO4t
Wow grazie! Me l'ero perso! Comunque la parte su TWOW è meno tragica di quanto avevo sentito, trascrivo:
CitaIntervistatore: "What's your favorite part in Game of Thrones?"
Martin: "Well, my favorite part is finishing each book: when I actually finish a book and deliver it. Of course I haven't had that pleasure for a number of years, since I am seriously late on The Winds of Winter but I hope to have the feeling of delivering that... and then, there's one more beyond that - A Dream of Spring . When I'll finish the whole thing, that will be an incredible rush"
Dice di essere "davvero in ritardo", ma non quanto sia lontano dalla fine. Certo, la seconda parte sul fatto che lui speri di finirlo è terrificante, ma conto sul fatto che fosse un modo di dire 
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PS: "A Wild Card's TV series coming in a year or two". Oh poveri noi, altre distrazioni in arrivo 
In poche parole la solita risposta ciclica e prevedibile, che non dice nulla.
« I did what I thought was right. » Jon Snow
« There are no men like me. Only me. » - Jaime Lannister
« No one can protect me. No one can protect anyone. It's true, I am a slow learner, but I learn. Winterfell is Our Home, we have to fight for it. » - Sansa Stark
« Leave one wolf alive and the sheep will never be safe. » - Arya Stark
« A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. » - Stannis Baratheon
Take my Heart when You go _ Take Mine in It's Place.
Ti proteggerò dalle paure delle ipocondrie, dai turbamenti che da oggi incontrerai per la tua via, dalle ingiustizie e dagli inganni del tuo tempo, dai fallimenti che per tua natura normalmente attirerai. Ti salverò da ogni malinconia, perché sei un essere speciale. Ed io avrò cura di te.
Ormai il nostro compare in pubblico con il capo chino, le mani alzate e ripetendo "lo so, lo so, colpa mia!"...
12 hours fa, Menevyn dice:Ormai il nostro compare in pubblico con il capo chino, le mani alzate e ripetendo "lo so, lo so, colpa mia!"...
Mette le mani avanti cospargendosi il capo di cenere. Sembra il pianto del coccodrillo...
Spingerebbe quasi alla compassione, se non fosse che dietro ad ogni lacrima celi un nuovo e remunerativo progetto.
"Vigilare non vuol dire cercare di sapere una cosa precisa. Tutto, anche l’irrilevante, può tornar buono un giorno. L’importante è sapere quello che gli altri non sanno che tu sai." U. Eco
Non c'entra niente ragazzi ma ieri mi è successa una cosa che potevo condividere solo con voi. Lavoro in un ristorante e ieri sera a cena c'era una tavolata con un ragazzino di 12 anni che aveva appena ricevuto in regalo il terzo libro in tedesco ( bleah) . E niente ci siamo messi a parlare e certo a 33 anni non pensavo di avere molto da condividere con un ragazzino di 12 e invece si. E la cosa mi ha stupito insomma. E lui mi ha detto che era un pò triste perché pensa che lui morirà prima di finire i libri e io mi sono rivista in lui e niente ... volevo condividerlo con voi sapendo che siete gli unici che possano capirmi
Dodici anni ed è già rassegnato come noi... Poveretto.
22 minutes fa, Menevyn dice:Dodici anni ed è già rassegnato come noi... Poveretto.
Infatti... poraccio m ha fatto tenerezza...
Nuova recentissima intervista di Martin in Russia: link
cosa ha ispirato ASOIAF: tutto è nato dalla famosa scena nel 91 con i cuccioli di direwolf nella neve
CitaI had no idea that it would be the next 30 years of my life. I knew it wasn’t part of Avalon. I also knew that it had to be written. It was one of those scenes that comes to me so vividly that I have to put everything else aside and tend to it. I wrote that chapter in about three days. It just poured out of me.
la pressione: in particolare da 10 anni a questa parte, oggi ha 5 assistenti!
CitaThe best times are the times when I can lose myself in the story when I put the outside world away and I boot up the computer and go to Westeros and the world outside vanishes and I forget all the pressure and the deadlines. And everything else and I’m caught up with the characters and the scene and what will happen next.
come mai non risparmia i buoni, i protagonisti, in particolare Ned
CitaLong before I was a writer I was a reader. And I think as a writer I write the books I want to read. All writers do that to a greater or lesser extent. As a reader what I came to hate very early in my life was books that were predictable. We’ve all read them. You start a book you read the first chapter you don’t need to read the rest you know exactly what’s going to happen. Here’s the hero, here’s the villain and the hero is going to be in trouble for a while but then he is going to triumph. There may be incidents of seeing danger but there is no real danger to the hero. I don’t like to read books like that. I like to read books that surprise me, that shock me, that take me in unexpected direction. Invoke my emotions, that scare me or excite me, or thrill me. And that’s what I want my books to be for the readers. When a character is in trouble, when a character in danger I want the reader to feel scared. To feel that tension and excitement. Will this character get out of danger?
sulle religioni:
CitaYes I wanted to include religion in the books (...) I’ve read a lot about the middle ages and the history of humanity. The things I was basing GoT and I know how important religions were in those periods so I made sure to include a number of them.
My own personal religious background: I was raised as a Roman Catholic back in NJ where I grew up. I received a certain amount of catholic religious instructions as a child but I was always a bit of a sceptic and I was a despair of the priests and the nuns. Asking inconvenient questions that they didn’t like to answer. I stopped being a practising catholic in college so unlike Tolkien I’m a very bad ex-catholic and a sceptic. There is no denying the importance of religion and faith in human history therefore I think it had to be included in the book, but I was also interested in exploring the juxtaposition between fantasy and religion. (...)
sui cattivi:
CitaI deliberately paint in shades of grey rather than black or whites. I think someone wrote that the hero is the villain of the other side so I wanted to show that the Lannisters while enemies to the Starks are the heroes of their own story in their own mind. Of course the Targs and Dany think that she is the hero of the story. The whole concept of heroes and villains is flawed if we oversimplify it. All human beings have the capacity in them to do noble and heroic things and cruel and selfish things. Most of us have all done both. All of our heroes have flaws and all of our villains have redeeming traits. As for the white walkers and the wights well I haven’t finished my series yet so I’ll reserve my comment on that until you see how I handle that in the last two books.
If the hackers will publish the script of season 7 will there any be influence on your work or on the tv series?
CitaThere certainly won’t be any influence on my work. I’m writing the books and while I’m involved with the TV series it’s the books that are my main concern. It’s sort of amusing that people would be in a big panic about the scripts being leaked before the show has come out considering that for the first entire five seasons my books were out and anyone could read my novels and find out what was going to happen.
Just knowing something is going to happen is not the same as experiencing it and enjoying it. It’s nice to keep your mysteries and plot turns pristine but I think great works of art whether television show or novel or film does not rely entirely on plot development. There is a richness and depth that goes beyond that. That’s why the great works of art are things that you can revisit even though you know what is going to happen, you can watch and read them again going back time and time. I can enjoy reading War and Peace even though I know Napoleon lost.
What do you think about the mission of a big fantasy writer? Is it something like creating a mythology?
Cita(...)So we are world creating and world building and that is an essential part of creating a modern epic fantasy. That really dates to Tolking. If you go back to the fantasy that preceded Tolkien you notice that it is often told in the language of fairy tales which is very unspecific: “Once upon a time there was king and the king had a beautiful daughter and lived next to a rival kingdom.” They don’t even give them names at times. But Tolking made the world building absolutely essential and everybody that followed including myself have taken a lesson from that.
altre domande: manuale di sopravvivenza a westeros, che ne pensa di putin, come può uno scrittore russo avere un successo planetario, le teorie dei fan, le parodie su di lui e su FIRE&BLOOD:
CitaThe book AWOIAF was originally conceived as an art book. We would have artwork on every page by some of the most outstanding artists in the world. In addition, there would be about 50.000 words of written material where I would gather together material that had already appeared in the novel. I work with two superfans. Elio Garcia and Linda Antonsson were going through the novels and pull out all the little nuggets of history that been given. Organise them and then I would take their template and flush it out a little more. In addition, I would write a few sidebars about Westerosi history that had never appeared although I had notes on it. They had never mentioned. So that was the idea.
Elio and Linda did their parts first and they delivered 70.000 words of text. So we were already 20.000 word over before we even started. And then I fleshed out and added as planned and that added another 20.000 words. And then I started writing my sidebars. At a certain point I realized I had 350.000 words of sidebars which would have overwhelmed the book. So we ripped out the sidebars and I realized I had another book there. And that would be the whole history of the Targ kings. Reign by reign everything that happened in all previous reigns from Aegon I up to Robert’s Rebelion. And with those 350.000 words I had only written to Aegon III which is about halfway through the list. So that is the basis of Fire and Blood which is going to be two volumes and I’m finishing the last section of that now and were hoping to have it out next year. It’s really an unusual sort of book because it’s not a novel or narrative in the traditional sense. It is a history book about imaginary people who never lived and yet my fans seem fascinated by it. I’m eternally bemused by the fact that there are people who seems to know more about my fake history than they do about real history.
"It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself".
Federalist No. 51, The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments, in The Federalist Papers, a collection of essays written in favour of the new Constitution as agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
Il 17/8/2017 at 13:53, Mar dice:Nuova recentissima intervista di Martin in Russia: link
cosa ha ispirato ASOIAF: tutto è nato dalla famosa scena nel 91 con i cuccioli di direwolf nella neve
la pressione: in particolare da 10 anni a questa parte, oggi ha 5 assistenti!
come mai non risparmia i buoni, i protagonisti, in particolare Ned
sulle religioni:
sui cattivi:
If the hackers will publish the script of season 7 will there any be influence on your work or on the tv series?
What do you think about the mission of a big fantasy writer? Is it something like creating a mythology?
altre domande: manuale di sopravvivenza a westeros, che ne pensa di putin, come può uno scrittore russo avere un successo planetario, le teorie dei fan, le parodie su di lui e su FIRE&BLOOD:
non si puo avere tradotto?
Novità dal blog dello zio
CitaAll in all, a great trip, but an exhausting one. The trip home was grueling.
Let me catch my breath, and might be I'll have some more to say.
CitaPer dirla tutta, una gran bel viaggio, ma stancante. Il ritorno a casa è stato faticoso.
Fatemi riprendere fiato, e potrei avere qualcosa di più da dire
Ormai mi aggrappo a qualsiasi cosa, ma potrebbe darci qualcosa di nuovo...
Si riferiva allo show successore di GOT.
« I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away. »
Magari deve fare più di un annuncio. Non spezzerai le mie speranze!
Aspettando TWOW:
"But I wanna dream
I wanna dream
Leave me to dream"
