A Game of Thrones, Catelyn II
Ned would not speak of the mother, not so much as a word.
But a castle has no secrets, and Catelyn heard her maids repeating tales they heard from the lips of her husband’s soldiers.
They whispered of Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, deadliest of the seven knights of Aerys’s Kingsguard, and of how their young lord had slain him in single combat.
And they told how afterward Ned had carried Ser Arthur’s sword back to the beautiful young sister who awaited him in the castle called Starfall on the shores of the Summer Sea.
The Lady Ashara Dayne, tall and fair, with haunting violet eyes.
It had taken her a fortnight to marshal her courage, but finally, in bed one night, Catelyn had asked her husband the truth of it, asked him to his face.
That was the only time in all their years that Ned had ever frightened her. “Never ask me about Jon,” he said, cold as ice. “He is my blood, and that is all you need to know.
“And now I will learn where you heard that name, my lady.” She had pledged to obey; she told him, and from that day on, the whispering had stopped, and Ashara Dayne’s name was never heard in Winterfell again.
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Henri Gervex, Yachting in the Archipelago. 1898.
Henri Gervex painted Yachting in the Archipelago in 1898, while a guest on board the magnificent yacht, Namouna, belonging to Gordon Bennett, the owner of the New York Herald and an international media entrepreneur. Bennett, who is probably depicted as the gentleman in white suit, leaning against the cabin in the posture of Captain of his vessel, moved frequently between New York and Paris. He occasionally commissioned Gervex to provide illustrations for the Herald and often included the artist among the fashionable European and American guests on the most current of his several renowned yachts. For Gervex, an artist entirely committed to painting the very real events and most fashionable details of his day, Yachting in the Archipelago represents a fascinating intersection between his personal and professional lives. (x)
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There’s something about the sun on the sea
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Summer Awad, “Syllogism for Palestinian Grief”
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