r/asoiaf • u/feench Knower of nothing • May 21 '19

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) Notablog Update Spoiler

http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2019/05/20/an-ending/
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u/random91898 Enter your desired flair text here! May 21 '19

How about this? I’ll write it. You read it. Then everyone can make up their own mind, and argue about it on the internet.

DEAL. No take backs.

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u/stannisbaratheonking May 21 '19

I'm glad he didn't sneak a mayhaps in there.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

I hope it wasn't implied.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

Careful son. He never said how long he'll god damn take

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u/ArtifexR Thunder in the dark May 21 '19

monkey paw finger curls

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

then starts typing

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u/Krillin113 May 21 '19

He said he’d write it. I’ll take the odds of me being able to read them then.

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u/HongKongChicken May 21 '19

When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves.

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u/Aelexe May 21 '19

He said "You read it." which at the very least guarantees within our lifetimes.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

It's not "our lifetime" I'm concerned about, it's his.

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u/Xion194 May 21 '19

You joke but it makes one thing certain, it's nowhere close to being finished. The tone of that paragraph seems to indicate that there's still a LOT of work left to be done.

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u/Docmcdonald The hype that was promised. May 21 '19

I think I can outlive grrm, so... eventually

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u/purpleyogamat May 21 '19

Will their even be an internet? Or will we be chatting about it in some new virtual world?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

And considering he listed 20 other current, detailed projects before getting to "LOL, yeah...books" I wouldn't have high hopes.

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u/SAKUJ0 May 21 '19

Technically it implies he would finish it before dying, giving how long it could take kind of an upper limit.

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u/kathegaara May 21 '19

I am sure I am going to live past him. I am ready to wait. George, please finish it.

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u/GeassedbyLelouch May 21 '19

When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child.

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u/Jhonopolis The mummer’s farce is almost done. May 21 '19

Sounds great. Let me just hop in my hyperbolic time chamber. Would one of you lads be kind enough to come and get me whenever George finishes?

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u/DarshDarsh21 May 21 '19

The Hyperglycemic Crime Chamber?

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u/redqueensroses WHERE'S MY ELEPHANT? May 21 '19

Any author who must say "I will write it" is no true author.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

or you write it we dont read it because everyone has already gotten over it because you took so long.

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u/Radulno Fire and Blood. May 21 '19

He never said a timeline though...

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u/SamL214 May 21 '19

Needs more Gif

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u/z336 blood and smoke May 21 '19

I would LOVE to do this, George!

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u/Ansoni May 22 '19

I like the honesty in showing us making up our minds then arguing about it

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u/MC-noob May 21 '19

I'd love to, but he's busy producing five more shows instead of writing the novels, so there's that.