#ned and his tragic honour while robert defiles lyanna in death through his altered memory of her

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lyanna and her bed of blood is still the most hauntingly beautiful and sorrowful description of the ambiguity of violence done to a womans body through childbirth or through abuse and i return to it as part of neds mournful narrative all the time. asoiafs use of abuse where it is present through the words of the characters and how you can tell if the characters sorrow is genuine, if it is delightful, or if it is an act through this approach is something i think of a lot. GRRM, ursula k le guin and octavia butler are writers i think of a lot when it comes to the depiction of violence as a world destroying act that does not seem diminished through the act of trying to describe the unspeakable in words