constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends. It's my general belief that all the storylines in ASOIAF are quite intentionally "Kaleidoscopic combinations" of one another, and, more to the present point, that they often seem like "Kaleidoscopic combinations. History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends. …and while Twain didn't quite say that exact line, he did write something in a novel that is very similar - something I believe was the literal, direct inspiration for what I think GRRM is "doing" with the text of ASOIAF and its supplementary fake "histories": History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes. Twain is often credited with coining the adage… Preface: In ASOIAF, "All Things Come Round Again", & The Song Is Always "Rhyming" GRRM likes Mark Twain: He's quoted Twain on his Notablog, mentioned Twain in interviews, and smarter people than me have argued that GRRM's novel Fevre Dream is in part a gothic love letter to Huckleberry Finn (regarding which, see also much of Tyrion's river-boating-and-slavery-and-disguised-disposed-possibly-fake-royalty plot in ADWD, which kicks off with the Huck Finn-ish image of a boy on a poled riverboat in "a wide-brimmed straw hat"). In so doing, I concluded they might ALL be simultaneously true, found what I believe are two (more) real-world inspirations for Littlefinger (in addition to, who I've argued elsewhere was one inspiration for Littlefinger), and ended up with over 600,000 characters of "Littlefinger stuff". I decided to explore and write-up the cases for what I see as the most likely "heretical" possibilities. For a long time, the idea that Littlefinger's lineage might be more "interesting" than we've been told has nagged at me.
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