Nornagest comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: arundelo 05 February 2013 10:20PM

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Comment author: Nornagest 05 February 2013 11:45:03PM *  8 points [-]

It doesn't matter that much, but I'm pretty sure that line is original to the HBO series, not to the books.

(Not my downvotes, incidentally, but I'd speculate they come from a desire to separate rationality from anti-deathism.)

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 07 February 2013 11:26:43PM 1 point [-]

It's not from the TV series either.

The TV series quote would be this: "There is only one God. And his name is Death. And there is only thing we say to Death: 'Not today'."

Basically the grandparent post seems to be just a quote from memory, combining bits and pieces from both places, accurate to neither.

Comment author: deathpigeon 05 February 2013 11:47:23PM 0 points [-]

I could've sworn it was from both of them, and, thus, from the books originally...

Comment author: Sniffnoy 06 February 2013 12:21:16AM 4 points [-]

It's not from the books; more generally, there isn't anything in the books directly suggesting a connection between Syrio and the Faceless Men.

Comment author: deathpigeon 06 February 2013 02:10:50AM 0 points [-]

Thanks. Fixed it.

Comment author: Nornagest 05 February 2013 11:53:21PM 0 points [-]

Couldn't find it in the Arya chapters of my copy. Wasn't looking terribly hard, though.

Comment author: deathpigeon 05 February 2013 11:58:30PM 0 points [-]

I remembered it vaguely, and found the more exact quote on the ASOIAF Quotes page on TvTropes since I didn't want to search through the Arya chapters to find the exact quote, though I was prepared to.