“I should think a hundred knights， at the least， with all their retainers， and half again as many freeriders. Cersei and the children travel with them.”
“I bedded a fishmaid once who told me the lowborn have a choicer way to put it. The king eats， they say， and the Hand takes the shit.” He threw back his head and roared his laughter. The echoes rang through the darkness， and all around them the dead of Winterfell seemed to watch with cold and disapproving eyes.
Khal Drogo stared at her tears， his face strangely empty of expression. “No，” he said. He lifted his hand and rubbed away the tears roughly with a callused thumb.
导论：一部现代创世神话吗？ “大历史”：以各种时间尺度考察过去 研究历史的方法就是要从漫长的绵延中去观察它，我称之为长时段（long durée）。这不仅仅只是一种方法，而且还能引发涉及古今各种社会结构的重大问题。
哥本哈根著名餐厅 Noma 创始人之一，著名丹麦厨师暨餐厅老板 Mads Refslund 在马尔代夫奢华度假村索尼娃芙西 开设全新期间限定餐厅，用餐地点选址于 Fresh in the Garden，可俯览度假村所在岛的大片有机园圃，菜式则以 Refslund 著名的“火与冰”概念为蓝本。
“It was the cold，” Gared said with iron certainty. “I saw men freeze last winter， and the one before， when I was half a boy. Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep， and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north， but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will， and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns， it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up， and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it. It’s easier just to sit down or go to sleep. They say you don’t feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy， and everything starts to fade， and then it’s like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful， like.”
