[split] the fanfic discussion thread (NO fanfic please)

[Nuytsia]

Surely that's the point that GRRM himself is trying to make? He does understand it, to a certain extent.

You'd THINK so, but if you read the blog it doesn't really turn out that way. Although it's not particularly clear. In fact he himself realises he's being contradictory on various points in that post:
"Which would be a sort of retconning, I know, which I just denounced. So sue me. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds"