2008.03.30 07:08 New Orleans (Not for tourists, see /r/AskNola)
2023.06.01 12:52 zerofunction Down bound above Baton Rouge, LA
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2023.06.01 12:34 safewrdtchoupitoulas Highway 55, exit 7: Ruddock
![]() | I'm going to try and keep this short and to the point. I feel like even thinking about it only makes it grow stronger, but here we go. submitted by safewrdtchoupitoulas to HauntedNewOrleans [link] [comments] My dad one night driving us from NO to BR mistakenly gets on 55N @ LaPlace even though he's driven between BR and No 1000000 times. Mom is pissed. There is no way to get off until the Northshore she says. About 15 minutes later I hear my dad say that they can just get off at this town and see if they can turn around. I'm alerted because it is pitch black outside (it's 10:30 pm) and there isn't a light for miles let alone anything that would indicate a town. I look up to see the sign, Exit 7 Ruddock only moments before the car starts off on the exit into the blackness. The moment we start to descend, every cell in my body goes into flight response. It's never been that strong. It was like my whole body plunged into boiling water. When we hit the bottom of the ramp the car stops. All we can see is fog and the headlights. The hairs ono the back of my neck erect themselves. WE HAVE TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE I tell my parents. My mom responds with, "This is a hidey place". The highway is thundering above us. You could scream your head off down here and no one would ever have a clue. My dad is taking Clark Griswold-esque time sightseeing down here. I'm about to vomit. Suddenly we zoom up the ramp having crossed under the roadways and are back in realtime in a flash. When I get home I Google it and find that the town was wiped off the map in 1915. Nearly everyone in the town and the neighboring town died there. The number of bodies found there in the present day, people who's cars have been found there, body parts, blood, and the number of multi-car cataclysmic grisly explosion car crash events as well as the number of cars that have driven over the side of the highway at that spot is remarkable. I have heard there are residents of S. Louisiana that will wear every religious relic they own to even go near it. Remember that mushroom cloud that happened out of nowhere recently that you could see in Baton Rouge? When I heard on the news that it had formed over the isthmus of land between Bayou Manchac and Lake Pontchartrain I held my breath. Guess what's there? Ruddock. Since then many odd things have happened that I find unnerving and sometimes I think I picked something up there that night. I have only gone down the exit once more during the day. There is a strange history with my car dashcam and exit 7. The first night I had it I drove to Ponchatoula to visit a friend. I stayed the night and woke up to find that an incident had been recorded at 4 am. The camera is triggered by movement in case of an accident. It was a lot of weird sounds and blurry imagery. I deleted it. There have been times when I have driven by and all the external collision warnings on my car have gone off at that exit. Once the song Red Right Hand started out of nowhere. Here's the lyrics of the opening: Take a little walk to the edge of town Go across the tracks Where the viaduct looms, Like a bird of doom As it shifts and cracks Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires Hey man, you know you’re never coming back Past this square, past the bridge, past the mills, past the stacks On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man In a dusty black coat with a red right hand The aforementioned time that I went down there again, this happened. I had a new dashcam that started recording in Baton Rouge and all the way until I stopped in New Orleans. There are 10 minutes missing from the footage when I checked. Guess where I was when the 3 cameras all didn't record? Lastly, this past Halloween when the veil is thinnest between physical and metaphysical there were a series of events that still freak me out. I had driven that night and got home at 1:15 am. At 1:35 am I get a notification saying "Your Incident Report is Ready". In the vent of a car accident while the car is parked the camera will send an incident report to my email so I can send it to the insurance company. Top speed: 36 mph and it included this video still of from the camera. What do you see? https://preview.redd.it/s2qjmcxmwd3b1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ffde514b55fd7c9be0aaabee38962359da9098f The next morning I had another incident report. No video this time, but this was the route taken (this is from my google location history) https://preview.redd.it/3ozm5juowd3b1.jpg?width=2893&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=308fdbc6a80932e5511c5252e158e215d470d186 I spoke with a shaman after that who said he believed that the activity that night was trying to get attention to the area. That the zig zagging through buildings that seems to indicate the parking lot next to the Eliza Jane as something the spirit world wanted to have looked at. My friend who sent me to the shaman believes there is something from Ruddock responsible. Do you have any information/stories/lore/experiences about Ruddock? It's frankly the scariest place I have ever been and I think it is some kind of superhighway to hell. There have been so many deaths there. That energy has stained that entire stretch of nothingness for a century at least if not more. Highway 55 was built in the 40s/50s if memory serves. WHY would you put an exit for a ghost town on the highway? What's the history? What's going on in the Manchac Swamp? |
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2023.06.01 04:30 Awkward-Froyo-9951 Vinyl!
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2023.06.01 02:17 DatDepressedKid Why doesn't the US do the same with the Gulf of Mexico? Are they too poor?
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2023.05.31 19:22 M_Tootles "Cargos, Slatterns & Butchery" with Helya & Grisel (Spoilers Extended)
"We're out of Oldtown," the captain called down, "bearing apples and oranges, wines from the Arbor, feathers from the Summer Isles. I have pepper, woven leathers, a bolt of Myrish lace, mirrors for milady, a pair of Oldtown woodharps sweet as any you ever heard." The gangplank descended with a creak and a thud. "And I've brought your heir back to you."Most of what we read there seems to be reworked in and around Littlefinger's homecoming in ASOS Sansa VI, when the Merling King brings the Dreadfort its heir, Littlefinger, as well as the seeming heir to Winterfell, Sansa. This begins with the Arbor wine and fruit we see off-loaded from the Merling King:
Oswell made two more trips out to the Merling King to offload provisions. Among the loads he brought ashore were several casks of wine. Petyr poured Sansa a cup, as promised. …Besides the straight repetition of Arbor wine, oranges, apples, and heirs, the repeated Oldtown motif is baldly reworked by Sansa's description of the wine, which is patently Oldtown-summer-esque, per the only substantive pre-AFFC description of Oldtown, which associates it with hot, fruity summer nights:
… The wine was very fine; an Arbor vintage, she thought. It tasted of oak and fruit and hot summer nights, the flavors blossoming in her mouth like flowers opening to the sun. She only prayed that she could keep it down. Lord Petyr was being so kind, she did not want to spoil it all by retching on him.
… "Grisel," he called to the old woman, "bring some food up. … Oswell's brought some oranges and pomegranates from the King." …
Grisel reappeared…, balancing a large platter. … There were apples and pears and pomegranates, some sad-looking grapes, a huge blood orange.
"King Maekar's summer was hotter than this one, and near as long. … [T]he heat was fierce while it lasted. Oldtown… came alive only by night. … I remember the smells of those nights, my lord—perfume and sweat, melons ripe to bursting, peaches and pomegranates, nightshade and moonbloom." (AGOT Eddard V)The Myraham's "mirrors for milady" prefigure Sansa being figuratively groomed by Petyr and literally grooming herself in Petyr's Eyrie after he takes over:
When Gretchel fetched her Lysa's silvered looking glass, the color seemed just perfect with Alayne's mass of dark brown hair. (AFFC Alayne I)The Myraham's "woodharps sweet as any you ever heard" presage Sansa being attacked by Marillion, whose "voice was strong and sweet", (AFFC Sansa I) after he sings a song (about blowjobs?) called "Milady's Supper" (supper a la the Myraham-ish fruit Sansa eats for supper when she lands) during Petyr's wedding bedding:
Lady Lysa's singer launched into a bawdy version of "Milady's Supper"….The Myraham's "woven leathers" and "Myrish lace" are reworked into the "laces unlaced" i.e. unwoven during said wedding:
By the time they had gotten him into the tower and out of his clothes, the other women were flushed, with laces unlaced, kirtles crooked, and skirts in disarray.That it's a "bolt of Myrish lace" is interesting: After Sansa boards the Merling King, she sees a singular "bolt" from a crossbow strike Dontos, and then two more:
Lothor Brune dipped his torch. Three men stepped to the gunwale, raised crossbows, fired. One bolt took Dontos in the chest as he looked up…. The others ripped into throat and belly. (ASOS Sansa V)Three crossbow bolts? What does that remind us if not… a Myrish crossbow:
"The king is playing with his new crossbow," Tyrion said. Ridding himself of Joffrey had required only an ungainly Myrish crossbow that threw three quarrels at a time…. (ACOK Tyrion VI)What about the Myraham's "pepper"? I suspect this gets box-checked first by Sansa trying not to "retch" as she is off-loaded along with the wine with which Littlefinger tries to settle her tummy, as just two chapters later peppers are tightly linked to "retching" of the sort Sansa feels like doing:
[Tyrion] found himself on his knees retching… that double helping of fried eggs cooked up with onions and fiery Dornish peppers. (ASOS Tyrion X)GRRM seems to play off the "pepper" motif in other ways, as well. Consider that the gathering to meet the Myraham and the shouted questions that prompt her captain to announce her cargo—
A handful of Lordsport merchants had gathered to meet the ship. They shouted questions as the Myraham was tying up.—get reworked by Petyr's household all gathering "to meet" the Merling King and by their peppering one another with questions:
Servants emerged from the tower to meet them; a thin old woman and a fat middle-aged one, two ancient white-haired men, and a girl of two or three with a sty on one eye. When they recognized Lord Petyr they knelt on the rocks. "My household," he said. "I don't know the child. Another of Kella's bastards, I suppose. She pops one out every few years."She's a "popper", then, in case we didn't catch that retching → peppers. (This also reworks Theon "popping one off" with the captain's daughter, who is in many ways reworked by Kella, as will be discussed below.)
… [Petyr]… gave the old woman a kiss on the cheek and grinned at the younger one. "Who fathered this one, Kella?"A gathering, and questions, questions, questions, as when Theon docks.
The fat woman laughed. "I can't rightly say, m'lord. I'm not one for telling them no."
"And all the local lads are grateful, I am quite sure."
"It is good to have you home, my lord," said one old man. … "How long will you be in residence?"
"As short a time as possible, Bryen, have no fear. Is the place habitable just now, would you say?"
"If we knew you was coming we would have laid down fresh rushes, m'lord," said the crone. "There's a dung fire burning."
"Nothing says home like the smell of burning dung." Petyr turned to Sansa. "Grisel was my wet nurse, but she keeps my castle now. Umfred's my steward, and Bryen—didn't I name you captain of the guard the last time I was here?"
"You did, my lord.…"
… Petyr gestured toward the fat woman. "Kella minds my vast herds. How many sheep do I have at present, Kella?"
The two old men waded out up to their thighs to lift Sansa from the boat so she would not get her skirts wet.This reworks the "shorehands… off-loading… casks of wine" from a Tyroshi trader docked with the Myraham—
[Theon] spied a Tyroshi trading galley off-loading…—which itself prefigures the above-quoted off-loading of the Merling King (when "Oswell made two more trips out to the Merling King to offload provisions" including "several casks of wine", from which Petyr immediately "poured Sansa a cup, as promised").
Shorehands rolled casks of wine off the Tyroshi trader, fisherfolk cried the day's catch, children ran and played. A priest in the seawater robes of the Drowned God was leading a pair of horses along the pebbled shore, while above him a slattern leaned out a window in the inn, calling out to some passing Ibbenese sailors.
"I don't know the child. Another of Kella's bastards, I suppose. She pops one out every few years."We only see one; presumably the others are off somewhere, running and playing, perhaps.
"From here the King turns east for Braavos. Without us."Consider most of all that Kella's something of a slattern herself: She's "not one for telling them no".
"I can't rightly say, m'lord. I'm not one for telling them no."Indeed, something Lysa says pretty clearly codes Kella as a verbatim "slattern", underlining the recursion:
"And all the local lads are grateful, I am quite sure."
"How would you like to spend your life on that bleak shore, surrounded by slatterns and sheep pellets?" (ASOS Sansa VII)So I think the vignette with the slattern and the children in Lordsport pretty plainly prefigures Kella. But I think she's prefigured by two more pieces of Theon's homecoming.
a girl of two or three with a sty on one eye—that she's (b) "fat"—
"Who fathered this one, Kella?"—and that she's (c) coded as a bit stupid:
The fat woman laughed.
"Kella minds my vast herds. How many sheep do I have at present, Kella?"All like Theon's "captain's daughter".
She had to think a moment. "Three and twenty, m'lord. There was nine and twenty, but Bryen's dogs killed one and we butchered some others and salted down the meat."
The girl was a shade plump for his taste…She is likely pregnant with Theon's bastard, a la Kella the bastard-popper.
"You can put it in me again, if it please you…"…and accedes to his request for a blowjob, so she's "not one for telling them no."
She looked rather stupid when she smiled, but he had never required a woman to be clever.And finally, she offers to work in Theon's castle—
The stupid girl did not seem to be listening.
She… learned quickly for such a stupid girl….
She looked at him stupidly, so he left her there.
I'd work in your castle, milord.—just as Kella works for Petyr.
[Pyke was] wet by the same salt waves, festooned with the same spreading patches of dark green lichen, speckled by the droppings of the same seabirds.Get it? A spreading 'patch'? In combination with "lichen" a la "licking" and Pyke being "wet"? And not just wet, but "wet by… salt waves", when as we know from the captain's daughter, semen tastes "salty", "like the sea". It's like Pyke is being described as a turned-on "slattern" with her legs spread.
"And what of Maester Qalen, where is he?"Qalen would be pronounced Kalen. Qalen → Kalen → Kale → Kela → Kella. Anyway…
"Grisel was my wet nurse, but she keeps my castle now.Grisel is similarly prefigured by two people from Theon's homecoming, including first the captain's daughter who wants to work in Theon's castle as Grisel works in Petyr's "castle".
"Ah, cold salt mutton. I must be home. When I break my fast on gulls' eggs and seaweed soup, I'll be certain of it."Then there is the captain daughter's resume:
"If you like, m'lord," said the old woman Grisel.
Lord Petyr made a face.
"I'd work in your castle, milord. I can clean fish and bake bread and churn butter. Father says my peppercrab stew is the best he's ever tasted. You could find me a place in your kitchens and I could make you peppercrab stew."This surely prefigures what we're told about Grisel making a sea-based soup of her own (i.e. the just mentioned "seaweed soup"), baking bread, and churning butter for Petyr:
Grisel reappeared before he could say more, balancing a large platter. She set it down between them. … The old woman had brought a round of bread as well, and a crock of butter.Where Grisel used to be Petyr's wet nurse, Theon suckles the captain daughter's nipple as if she's a wet nurse:
Grisel climbed up to the bedchamber to serve the lord and lady a tray of morning bread, with butter, honey, fruit, and cream.
Theon's finger circled one heavy teat, spiraling in toward the fat brown nipple. … He took her nipple in his mouth….And finally, where Theon kisses the captain's daughter on the ear—
"You can put it in me again, if it please you," she whispered in his ear as he sucked.
[Theon] drew the captain's daughter close and kissed her on her ear.—Littlefinger kisses Grisel on the cheek:
Oswell and Lothor splashed their way ashore, as did Littlefinger himself. He gave the old woman a kiss on the cheek and grinned at the younger one.
A bentback old crone in a shapeless grey dress approached him warily. "M'lord, I am sent to show you to chambers."Get it? "Helya and Grisel", a la "Hansel and Gretel".
"And who are you?"
"Helya, who keeps this castle for your lord father."
"If we knew you was coming we would have laid down fresh rushes, m'lord," said the crone. "There's a dung fire burning."That's a recursive reversal of Helya's (lack of) preparation for Theon's visit: Where Grisel has a fire going even though she didn't know Petyr was coming, and where she proactively apologizes for not changing the rushes, telling him "we would have laid down fresh rushes… if we knew you were coming", Helya neither lit a fire nor changed the heavily foregrounded "old and brittle" rushes in the rooms Theon is given—
"Nothing says home like the smell of burning dung."
"I'll have a basin of hot water and a fire in this hearth," he told the crone. "See that they light braziers in the other rooms to drive out some of the chill. And gods be good, get someone in here at once to change these rushes."—despite having ample forewarning of his coming:
It was not as though they had no word of his arrival. Robb had sent ravens from Riverrun, and… Jason Mallister had sent his own birds to Pyke….The joke is underlined by the introduction of "Gretchel" — Gretel with a borrowed H from Helya/Hansel — who fetches washbasins of water (which, see below), "la[ys] a fire in the hearth" and "tend[s] to the fire", brings food and discusses food storage in Petyr's Eyrie in AFFC Sansa I & Alayne I. (In other words, she 'keeps his castle.')
"Show me to my chambers, woman," he commanded. Bowing stiffly, [Helya] led him across the headland to the bridge. …—it's Petyr who leads the way into his tower, casually inviting Grisel (and everyone else) to follow him:
Whenever he'd imagined his homecoming, he had always pictured himself returning to the snug bedchamber in the Sea Tower, where he'd slept as a child. Instead the old woman led him to the Bloody Keep.
"If you like, m'lord," said the old woman Grisel.Petyr jokes about his hall being "dreary", and perhaps it is, but while it's "small" and "even smaller" within, his tower is also home to his servants, and hence very well lived-in.
Lord Petyr made a face. "Come, let's see if my hall is as dreary as I recall." He led them up the strand…
Within, the tower seemed even smaller. An open stone stair wound round the inside wall, from undercroft to roof. Each floor was but a single room. The servants lived and slept in the kitchen at ground level, sharing the space with a huge brindled mastiff and a half-dozen sheep-dogs. Above that was a modest hall, and higher still the bedchamber.(Note that the "mastiff", which we see as Petyr leads Grisel in, recalls Helya bowing "stiffly" before leading Theon to his rooms.)
The halls here were larger and better furnished, if no less cold nor damp. Theon was given a suite of chilly rooms with ceilings so high that they were lost in gloom. [Omitted but see below.]A ton of the motifs here (including the omitted stuff, which I'll return to) get recycled and reworked in Petyr's tower.
[Omitted but see below.] It was not fear of ghosts that made him glance about with distaste. The wall hangings were green with mildew, the mattress musty-smelling and sagging, the rushes old and brittle. Years had come and gone since these chambers had last been opened. The damp went bone deep. "I'll have a basin of hot water and a fire in this hearth," he told the crone. See that they light braziers in the other rooms to drive out some of the chill. And gods be good, get someone in here at once to change these rushes."
"Might I have a hot bath as well?" asked Sansa.Note that Kella fulfills the request, not Grisel. This 'fits', as it's not Helya who brings Theon's water, but "two thralls".
"I'll have Kella draw some water, m'lady."
She desperately needed a bath and a change of clothes.…whereas Theon changes his clothes immediately after the quoted passages.
"It is good to have you home, my lord," said one old man. He looked to be at least eighty, but he wore a studded brigantine and a longsword at his side. …Is the brindled dog a "mastiff" 'only' a wink at Theon going mast-stiff for Asha? (See Part 4.) Maybe. But it's worth mentioning that when Theon is first being stirred by Pyke's banner and it's being battered about like the shield we see in the Drearfort three sentences after the mastiff, it's also (a) flying from a very stiff "mast" and (b) juxtaposed with a very large 'dog' of sorts:
"Bryen—didn't I name you captain of the guard the last time I was here?"
"You did, my lord. You said you'd be getting some more men too, but you never did. Me and the dogs stand all the watches."
Sansa found Bryen's old blind dog in her little alcove beneath the steps…
The servants lived and slept in the kitchen at ground level, sharing the space with a huge brindled mastiff and a half-dozen sheep-dogs.
The banner streamed from an iron mast, shivering and twisting as the wind gusted like a bird struggling to take flight. And here at least the direwolf of Stark did not fly above, casting its shadow down upon the Greyjoy kraken.
Lady Lysa was two years younger than Mother, but this woman looked ten years older. Thick auburn tresses fell down past her waist, but beneath the costly velvet gown and jeweled bodice her body sagged and bulged.—and smells stale. (Note that Lysa is on a mattress here.)
Her aunt was drenched in sweet scent, though under that was a sour milky smell. Her cheek tasted of paint and powder.Lysa's "cheek tast[ing] of paint and powder" riffs on the line about Theon's "distaste" and "fear of ghosts":
It was not fear of ghosts that made him glance about with distaste.The distaste wordplay is obvious: Lysa tastes bad. As for the "fear of ghosts", Lysa (whom Sansa fears) being covered in "powder" reminds us of Sansa being afraid of a "spirit" covered in powdery flour:
When the spirit stepped out of the open tomb, pale white and moaning for blood, Sansa ran shrieking for the stairs…. Arya stood her ground and gave the spirit a punch. It was only Jon, covered with flour. (AGOT Arya IV)This line—
The halls here were larger and better furnished, if no less cold nor damp.—is reworked by Lysa as well, who is big and well-dressed ("better furnished", so to speak)—
[B]eneath the costly velvet gown and jeweled bodice her body sagged and bulged. Her face was pink and painted, her breasts heavy, her limbs thick. She was taller than Littlefinger, and heavier; nor did she show any grace in the clumsy way she climbed down off her horse.—but cold to Sansa and horny/wet/"damp" for Petyr.
It had been years since Sansa last saw her mother's sister…"I wonder whether Lysa crying and speaking to Sansa of being "bound by blood" to her—
Tears welled suddenly in Lady Lysa's eyes. "We are women alone now, you and I. Are you afraid, child? Be brave. I would never turn away Cat's daughter. We are bound by blood."—might not be in part a play on the fact that "the damp went bone deep" in the Bloody Keep. By saying that, Sansa's damp (i.e. crying) aunt "went bone deep", so to speak. (If you're "bound by blood" to someone, you have a "bone deep" bond with them. Also, bone → bound wordplay?)
See that they light braziers in the other rooms to drive out some of the chill.—inform (via wordplay: braziers → bracing) Petyr's line when the Merling King pulls up to the Drearfort?
Lord Petyr came up beside her, cheerful as ever. "Good morrow. The salt air is bracing, don't you think? It always sharpens my appetite."And/or is that "sharpening" motif a recursion of Theon sharpening his dirk immediately after said braziers are lit?
After some time, they brought the hot water he had asked for. … While two thralls lit his braziers, Theon stripped off his travel-stained clothing and dressed to meet his father. … He hung a dirk at one hip and a longsword at the other…. Drawing the dirk, he … pulled a whetstone from his belt pouch, and gave it a few licks. He prided himself on keeping his weapons sharp.
Lady Lysa was still abed [like a good mattress!], but Lord Petyr was up and dressed. "Your aunt wishes to speak with you," he told Sansa, as he pulled on a boot. "I've told her who you are."The notion of a "ceiling" so high it is lost in gloom is perhaps also reworked by the story Lysa tells Sansa about Petyr's "rise" to power: She says she "always knew how high [Petyr would] rise", and it's my belief that said rise has likely seen him 'lost', spiritually, in 'darkness'. (Note that ceilings are a frequently invoked metaphor when talking about climbing the corporate ladder.)
Gods be good. "I . . . I thank you, my lord."
Petyr yanked on the other boot. "I've had about as much home as I can stomach. We'll leave for the Eyrie this afternoon."
Seven towers, Ned had told her, like white daggers thrust into the belly of the sky, so high you can stand on the parapets and look down on the clouds. (AGOT Catelyn VI)
"Half his teeth were gone, and his breath smelled like bad cheese. I cannot abide a man with foul breath. Petyr's breath is always fresh . . . he was the first man I ever kissed, you know. My father said he was too lowborn, but I knew how high he'd rise. Jon gave him the customs for Gulltown to please me, but when he increased the incomes tenfold my lord husband saw how clever he was and gave him other appointments, even brought him to King's Landing to be master of coin. That was hard, to see him every day and still be wed to that old cold man.(Recall that the motif of bad/fresh breath there reworks the "winey stench of the old man's [Sylas Sourmouth's] breath", which Theon thinks about roughly ¼ page prior to being shown his suite in the Bloody Keep.)
"Jon did his duty in the bedchamber, but he could no more give me pleasure than he could give me children. His seed was old and weak. All my babies died but Robert, three girls and two boys. All my sweet little babies dead, and that old man just went on and on with his stinking breath. So you see, I have suffered too." Lady Lysa sniffed. "You do know that your poor mother is dead?"Those references to (a) a bunch of dead "babies", including two brothers, one of which was "murdered" when Lysa's father, Hoster Tully, who ruled the Riverlands, betrayed Lysa's trust; and to (b) foul smelling breath, a la Sylas, and finally to (c) the Red Wedding — a bloody betrayal of Sansa's brother, who was King of the Riverlands — particularly (per Sansa saying "Tyrion told me") as it's described by Tyrion—
"Tyrion told me," said Sansa. "He said the Freys murdered her at The Twins, with Robb."
Sansa did not need to hear how her brother's body had been hacked and mutilated, he decided; nor how her mother's corpse had been dumped naked into the Green Fork in a savage mockery of House Tully's funeral customs. (ASOS Tyrion VII)—are one of the ways ASOS Sansa VI rejiggers the part of Theon's description of his Bloody Keep suite I "[omitted]" earlier, which entails betrayals, murdered brothers, a River King, slaughter, and bodies "hacked to bits".
[Theon] might have been more impressed if he had not known that these were the very chambers that had given the Bloody Keep its name. A thousand years before, the sons of the River King had been slaughtered here, hacked to bits in their beds so that pieces of their bodies might be sent back to their father on the mainland.Lysa's speech with its reference to her abortion and to the Red Wedding (and to stink-breath like Sylas's) isn't the only (or even the main) way Petyr's homecoming chapter refracts those images from Theon's homecoming, though.
But Greyjoys were not murdered in Pyke except once in a great while by their brothers, and his brothers were both dead.
"How many sheep do I have at present, Kella?"Note the kitchen, recalling that the Bloody Keep is paired with the Kitchen Keep as Theon first gazes on Pyke:
… "Three and twenty, m'lord. There was nine and twenty, but Bryen's dogs killed one and we butchered some others and salted down the meat."
"Ah, cold salt mutton. I must be home.…" … "Come, let's see if my hall is as dreary as I recall." … A handful of sheep were wandering about the base of the flint tower…. …
Within, the tower seemed even smaller. An open stone stair wound round the inside wall, from undercroft to roof. Each floor was but a single room. The servants lived and slept in the kitchen at ground level, sharing the space with a huge brindled mastiff and a half-dozen sheep-dogs.
Farther out were the Kitchen Keep and the Bloody Keep, each on its own island.Note, too, that the sheep are coded as Petyr's "sons", in a way (a la the "slaughtered… sons of the River King" Theon remembers in his Bloody Tower rooms), and not just because he owns them. He says that Kella has lots of bastards and that she minds his sheep, right? And what else does he say of Kella, in jest? That she 'is' the "mother" of his "daughter," "Alayne Stone":
"Alayne . . . Stone, would it be?" When he nodded, she said, "But who is my mother?"The joke foregrounds the notion of Petyr as the father of Kella's children. And while she supposedly has a bunch of bastards, we don't see them. We just see the one girl with the livestock-evoking eye with a sty. It's almost like the sheep she looks after are her children. And thus like Petyr is their father.
"Kella?"
"Please no," she said, mortified.
"I was teasing.
[T]he sons of the River King had been slaughtered here, hacked to bits in their beds so that pieces of their bodies might be sent back to their father on the mainland.(They were slaughtered and hacked to bits only so as to properly preserve them against spoilage during their upcoming journey "back to their father on the mainland", you see!)
The priest's manner was chilly, most unlike the man Theon remembered.—and Balon—
Theon pulled off his gloves. "… Why is my father not here to greet me?"—and they're thus part of a broad yin/yang 'rhyme' with Petyr's initial homecoming, which is warm and welcoming and full of familiar faces, whereas Theon knows no one, such that he thinks:
"He awaits you in the Sea Tower, m'lord. When you are rested from your trip."
And I thought Ned Stark cold.
It is as if I were a stranger here….The reversal is wryly underlined when Petyr is greeted at the shore by his "captain of the guards", Bryen:
"It is good to have you home, my lord," said one old man.Thus Petyr ironically gets the "honor guard" welcome Theon hoped he'd get on his arrival 'home':
[Theon] saw… no honor guard waiting to escort him from Lordsport to Pyke, only smallfolk going about their small business.Notice that where no one stops what they're doing for Theon, everyone stops when Petyr arrives. And of course, everyone in his household recognizes him, whereas no one recognizes Theon. Which is telling, because in a deep sense, that's all Theon really wants, deep down: a little recognition.
2023.05.31 19:20 M_Tootles "Cargos, Slatterns & Butchery" with Helya & Grisel. (Spoilers TWOW)
"We're out of Oldtown," the captain called down, "bearing apples and oranges, wines from the Arbor, feathers from the Summer Isles. I have pepper, woven leathers, a bolt of Myrish lace, mirrors for milady, a pair of Oldtown woodharps sweet as any you ever heard." The gangplank descended with a creak and a thud. "And I've brought your heir back to you."Most of what we read there seems to be reworked in and around Littlefinger's homecoming in ASOS Sansa VI, when the Merling King brings the Dreadfort its heir, Littlefinger, as well as the seeming heir to Winterfell, Sansa. This begins with the Arbor wine and fruit we see off-loaded from the Merling King:
Oswell made two more trips out to the Merling King to offload provisions. Among the loads he brought ashore were several casks of wine. Petyr poured Sansa a cup, as promised. …Besides the straight repetition of Arbor wine, oranges, apples, and heirs, the repeated Oldtown motif is baldly reworked by Sansa's description of the wine, which is patently Oldtown-summer-esque, per the only substantive pre-AFFC description of Oldtown, which associates it with hot, fruity summer nights:
… The wine was very fine; an Arbor vintage, she thought. It tasted of oak and fruit and hot summer nights, the flavors blossoming in her mouth like flowers opening to the sun. She only prayed that she could keep it down. Lord Petyr was being so kind, she did not want to spoil it all by retching on him.
… "Grisel," he called to the old woman, "bring some food up. … Oswell's brought some oranges and pomegranates from the King." …
Grisel reappeared…, balancing a large platter. … There were apples and pears and pomegranates, some sad-looking grapes, a huge blood orange.
"King Maekar's summer was hotter than this one, and near as long. … [T]he heat was fierce while it lasted. Oldtown… came alive only by night. … I remember the smells of those nights, my lord—perfume and sweat, melons ripe to bursting, peaches and pomegranates, nightshade and moonbloom." (AGOT Eddard V)The Myraham's "mirrors for milady" prefigure Sansa being figuratively groomed by Petyr and literally grooming herself in Petyr's Eyrie after he takes over:
When Gretchel fetched her Lysa's silvered looking glass, the color seemed just perfect with Alayne's mass of dark brown hair. (AFFC Alayne I)The Myraham's "woodharps sweet as any you ever heard" presage Sansa being attacked by Marillion, whose "voice was strong and sweet", (AFFC Sansa I) after he sings a song (about blowjobs?) called "Milady's Supper" (supper a la the Myraham-ish fruit Sansa eats for supper when she lands) during Petyr's wedding bedding:
Lady Lysa's singer launched into a bawdy version of "Milady's Supper"….The Myraham's "woven leathers" and "Myrish lace" are reworked into the "laces unlaced" i.e. unwoven during said wedding:
By the time they had gotten him into the tower and out of his clothes, the other women were flushed, with laces unlaced, kirtles crooked, and skirts in disarray.That it's a "bolt of Myrish lace" is interesting: After Sansa boards the Merling King, she sees a singular "bolt" from a crossbow strike Dontos, and then two more:
Lothor Brune dipped his torch. Three men stepped to the gunwale, raised crossbows, fired. One bolt took Dontos in the chest as he looked up…. The others ripped into throat and belly. (ASOS Sansa V)Three crossbow bolts? What does that remind us if not… a Myrish crossbow:
"The king is playing with his new crossbow," Tyrion said. Ridding himself of Joffrey had required only an ungainly Myrish crossbow that threw three quarrels at a time…. (ACOK Tyrion VI)What about the Myraham's "pepper"? I suspect this gets box-checked first by Sansa trying not to "retch" as she is off-loaded along with the wine with which Littlefinger tries to settle her tummy, as just two chapters later peppers are tightly linked to "retching" of the sort Sansa feels like doing:
[Tyrion] found himself on his knees retching… that double helping of fried eggs cooked up with onions and fiery Dornish peppers. (ASOS Tyrion X)GRRM seems to play off the "pepper" motif in other ways, as well. Consider that the gathering to meet the Myraham and the shouted questions that prompt her captain to announce her cargo—
A handful of Lordsport merchants had gathered to meet the ship. They shouted questions as the Myraham was tying up.—get reworked by Petyr's household all gathering "to meet" the Merling King and by their peppering one another with questions:
Servants emerged from the tower to meet them; a thin old woman and a fat middle-aged one, two ancient white-haired men, and a girl of two or three with a sty on one eye. When they recognized Lord Petyr they knelt on the rocks. "My household," he said. "I don't know the child. Another of Kella's bastards, I suppose. She pops one out every few years."She's a "popper", then, in case we didn't catch that retching → peppers. (This also reworks Theon "popping one off" with the captain's daughter, who is in many ways reworked by Kella, as will be discussed below.)
… [Petyr]… gave the old woman a kiss on the cheek and grinned at the younger one. "Who fathered this one, Kella?"A gathering, and questions, questions, questions, as when Theon docks.
The fat woman laughed. "I can't rightly say, m'lord. I'm not one for telling them no."
"And all the local lads are grateful, I am quite sure."
"It is good to have you home, my lord," said one old man. … "How long will you be in residence?"
"As short a time as possible, Bryen, have no fear. Is the place habitable just now, would you say?"
"If we knew you was coming we would have laid down fresh rushes, m'lord," said the crone. "There's a dung fire burning."
"Nothing says home like the smell of burning dung." Petyr turned to Sansa. "Grisel was my wet nurse, but she keeps my castle now. Umfred's my steward, and Bryen—didn't I name you captain of the guard the last time I was here?"
"You did, my lord.…"
… Petyr gestured toward the fat woman. "Kella minds my vast herds. How many sheep do I have at present, Kella?"
The two old men waded out up to their thighs to lift Sansa from the boat so she would not get her skirts wet.This reworks the "shorehands… off-loading… casks of wine" from a Tyroshi trader docked with the Myraham—
[Theon] spied a Tyroshi trading galley off-loading…—which itself prefigures the above-quoted off-loading of the Merling King (when "Oswell made two more trips out to the Merling King to offload provisions" including "several casks of wine", from which Petyr immediately "poured Sansa a cup, as promised").
Shorehands rolled casks of wine off the Tyroshi trader, fisherfolk cried the day's catch, children ran and played. A priest in the seawater robes of the Drowned God was leading a pair of horses along the pebbled shore, while above him a slattern leaned out a window in the inn, calling out to some passing Ibbenese sailors.
"I don't know the child. Another of Kella's bastards, I suppose. She pops one out every few years."We only see one; presumably the others are off somewhere, running and playing, perhaps.
"From here the King turns east for Braavos. Without us."Consider most of all that Kella's something of a slattern herself: She's "not one for telling them no".
"I can't rightly say, m'lord. I'm not one for telling them no."Indeed, something Lysa says pretty clearly codes Kella as a verbatim "slattern", underlining the recursion:
"And all the local lads are grateful, I am quite sure."
"How would you like to spend your life on that bleak shore, surrounded by slatterns and sheep pellets?" (ASOS Sansa VII)So I think the vignette with the slattern and the children in Lordsport pretty plainly prefigures Kella. But I think she's prefigured by two more pieces of Theon's homecoming.
a girl of two or three with a sty on one eye—that she's (b) "fat"—
"Who fathered this one, Kella?"—and that she's (c) coded as a bit stupid:
The fat woman laughed.
"Kella minds my vast herds. How many sheep do I have at present, Kella?"All like Theon's "captain's daughter".
She had to think a moment. "Three and twenty, m'lord. There was nine and twenty, but Bryen's dogs killed one and we butchered some others and salted down the meat."
The girl was a shade plump for his taste…She is likely pregnant with Theon's bastard, a la Kella the bastard-popper.
"You can put it in me again, if it please you…"…and accedes to his request for a blowjob, so she's "not one for telling them no."
She looked rather stupid when she smiled, but he had never required a woman to be clever.And finally, she offers to work in Theon's castle—
The stupid girl did not seem to be listening.
She… learned quickly for such a stupid girl….
She looked at him stupidly, so he left her there.
I'd work in your castle, milord.—just as Kella works for Petyr.
[Pyke was] wet by the same salt waves, festooned with the same spreading patches of dark green lichen, speckled by the droppings of the same seabirds.Get it? A spreading 'patch'? In combination with "lichen" a la "licking" and Pyke being "wet"? And not just wet, but "wet by… salt waves", when as we know from the captain's daughter, semen tastes "salty", "like the sea". It's like Pyke is being described as a turned-on "slattern" with her legs spread.
"And what of Maester Qalen, where is he?"Qalen would be pronounced Kalen. Qalen → Kalen → Kale → Kela → Kella. Anyway…
"Grisel was my wet nurse, but she keeps my castle now.Grisel is similarly prefigured by two people from Theon's homecoming, including first the captain's daughter who wants to work in Theon's castle as Grisel works in Petyr's "castle".
"Ah, cold salt mutton. I must be home. When I break my fast on gulls' eggs and seaweed soup, I'll be certain of it."Then there is the captain daughter's resume:
"If you like, m'lord," said the old woman Grisel.
Lord Petyr made a face.
"I'd work in your castle, milord. I can clean fish and bake bread and churn butter. Father says my peppercrab stew is the best he's ever tasted. You could find me a place in your kitchens and I could make you peppercrab stew."This surely prefigures what we're told about Grisel making a sea-based soup of her own (i.e. the just mentioned "seaweed soup"), baking bread, and churning butter for Petyr:
Grisel reappeared before he could say more, balancing a large platter. She set it down between them. … The old woman had brought a round of bread as well, and a crock of butter.Where Grisel used to be Petyr's wet nurse, Theon suckles the captain daughter's nipple as if she's a wet nurse:
Grisel climbed up to the bedchamber to serve the lord and lady a tray of morning bread, with butter, honey, fruit, and cream.
Theon's finger circled one heavy teat, spiraling in toward the fat brown nipple. … He took her nipple in his mouth….And finally, where Theon kisses the captain's daughter on the ear—
"You can put it in me again, if it please you," she whispered in his ear as he sucked.
[Theon] drew the captain's daughter close and kissed her on her ear.—Littlefinger kisses Grisel on the cheek:
Oswell and Lothor splashed their way ashore, as did Littlefinger himself. He gave the old woman a kiss on the cheek and grinned at the younger one.
A bentback old crone in a shapeless grey dress approached him warily. "M'lord, I am sent to show you to chambers."Get it? "Helya and Grisel", a la "Hansel and Gretel".
"And who are you?"
"Helya, who keeps this castle for your lord father."
"If we knew you was coming we would have laid down fresh rushes, m'lord," said the crone. "There's a dung fire burning."That's a recursive reversal of Helya's (lack of) preparation for Theon's visit: Where Grisel has a fire going even though she didn't know Petyr was coming, and where she proactively apologizes for not changing the rushes, telling him "we would have laid down fresh rushes… if we knew you were coming", Helya neither lit a fire nor changed the heavily foregrounded "old and brittle" rushes in the rooms Theon is given—
"Nothing says home like the smell of burning dung."
"I'll have a basin of hot water and a fire in this hearth," he told the crone. "See that they light braziers in the other rooms to drive out some of the chill. And gods be good, get someone in here at once to change these rushes."—despite having ample forewarning of his coming:
It was not as though they had no word of his arrival. Robb had sent ravens from Riverrun, and… Jason Mallister had sent his own birds to Pyke….The joke is underlined by the introduction of "Gretchel" — Gretel with a borrowed H from Helya/Hansel — who fetches washbasins of water (which, see below), "la[ys] a fire in the hearth" and "tend[s] to the fire", brings food and discusses food storage in Petyr's Eyrie in AFFC Sansa I & Alayne I. (In other words, she 'keeps his castle.')
"Show me to my chambers, woman," he commanded. Bowing stiffly, [Helya] led him across the headland to the bridge. …—it's Petyr who leads the way into his tower, casually inviting Grisel (and everyone else) to follow him:
Whenever he'd imagined his homecoming, he had always pictured himself returning to the snug bedchamber in the Sea Tower, where he'd slept as a child. Instead the old woman led him to the Bloody Keep.
"If you like, m'lord," said the old woman Grisel.Petyr jokes about his hall being "dreary", and perhaps it is, but while it's "small" and "even smaller" within, his tower is also home to his servants, and hence very well lived-in.
Lord Petyr made a face. "Come, let's see if my hall is as dreary as I recall." He led them up the strand…
Within, the tower seemed even smaller. An open stone stair wound round the inside wall, from undercroft to roof. Each floor was but a single room. The servants lived and slept in the kitchen at ground level, sharing the space with a huge brindled mastiff and a half-dozen sheep-dogs. Above that was a modest hall, and higher still the bedchamber.(Note that the "mastiff", which we see as Petyr leads Grisel in, recalls Helya bowing "stiffly" before leading Theon to his rooms.)
The halls here were larger and better furnished, if no less cold nor damp. Theon was given a suite of chilly rooms with ceilings so high that they were lost in gloom. [Omitted but see below.]A ton of the motifs here (including the omitted stuff, which I'll return to) get recycled and reworked in Petyr's tower.
[Omitted but see below.] It was not fear of ghosts that made him glance about with distaste. The wall hangings were green with mildew, the mattress musty-smelling and sagging, the rushes old and brittle. Years had come and gone since these chambers had last been opened. The damp went bone deep. "I'll have a basin of hot water and a fire in this hearth," he told the crone. See that they light braziers in the other rooms to drive out some of the chill. And gods be good, get someone in here at once to change these rushes."
"Might I have a hot bath as well?" asked Sansa.Note that Kella fulfills the request, not Grisel. This 'fits', as it's not Helya who brings Theon's water, but "two thralls".
"I'll have Kella draw some water, m'lady."
She desperately needed a bath and a change of clothes.…whereas Theon changes his clothes immediately after the quoted passages.
"It is good to have you home, my lord," said one old man. He looked to be at least eighty, but he wore a studded brigantine and a longsword at his side. …Is the brindled dog a "mastiff" 'only' a wink at Theon going mast-stiff for Asha? (See Part 4.) Maybe. But it's worth mentioning that when Theon is first being stirred by Pyke's banner and it's being battered about like the shield we see in the Drearfort three sentences after the mastiff, it's also (a) flying from a very stiff "mast" and (b) juxtaposed with a very large 'dog' of sorts:
"Bryen—didn't I name you captain of the guard the last time I was here?"
"You did, my lord. You said you'd be getting some more men too, but you never did. Me and the dogs stand all the watches."
Sansa found Bryen's old blind dog in her little alcove beneath the steps…
The servants lived and slept in the kitchen at ground level, sharing the space with a huge brindled mastiff and a half-dozen sheep-dogs.
The banner streamed from an iron mast, shivering and twisting as the wind gusted like a bird struggling to take flight. And here at least the direwolf of Stark did not fly above, casting its shadow down upon the Greyjoy kraken.
Lady Lysa was two years younger than Mother, but this woman looked ten years older. Thick auburn tresses fell down past her waist, but beneath the costly velvet gown and jeweled bodice her body sagged and bulged.—and smells stale. (Note that Lysa is on a mattress here.)
Her aunt was drenched in sweet scent, though under that was a sour milky smell. Her cheek tasted of paint and powder.Lysa's "cheek tast[ing] of paint and powder" riffs on the line about Theon's "distaste" and "fear of ghosts":
It was not fear of ghosts that made him glance about with distaste.The distaste wordplay is obvious: Lysa tastes bad. As for the "fear of ghosts", Lysa (whom Sansa fears) being covered in "powder" reminds us of Sansa being afraid of a "spirit" covered in powdery flour:
When the spirit stepped out of the open tomb, pale white and moaning for blood, Sansa ran shrieking for the stairs…. Arya stood her ground and gave the spirit a punch. It was only Jon, covered with flour. (AGOT Arya IV)This line—
The halls here were larger and better furnished, if no less cold nor damp.—is reworked by Lysa as well, who is big and well-dressed ("better furnished", so to speak)—
[B]eneath the costly velvet gown and jeweled bodice her body sagged and bulged. Her face was pink and painted, her breasts heavy, her limbs thick. She was taller than Littlefinger, and heavier; nor did she show any grace in the clumsy way she climbed down off her horse.—but cold to Sansa and horny/wet/"damp" for Petyr.
It had been years since Sansa last saw her mother's sister…"I wonder whether Lysa crying and speaking to Sansa of being "bound by blood" to her—
Tears welled suddenly in Lady Lysa's eyes. "We are women alone now, you and I. Are you afraid, child? Be brave. I would never turn away Cat's daughter. We are bound by blood."—might not be in part a play on the fact that "the damp went bone deep" in the Bloody Keep. By saying that, Sansa's damp (i.e. crying) aunt "went bone deep", so to speak. (If you're "bound by blood" to someone, you have a "bone deep" bond with them. Also, bone → bound wordplay?)
See that they light braziers in the other rooms to drive out some of the chill.—inform (via wordplay: braziers → bracing) Petyr's line when the Merling King pulls up to the Drearfort?
Lord Petyr came up beside her, cheerful as ever. "Good morrow. The salt air is bracing, don't you think? It always sharpens my appetite."And/or is that "sharpening" motif a recursion of Theon sharpening his dirk immediately after said braziers are lit?
After some time, they brought the hot water he had asked for. … While two thralls lit his braziers, Theon stripped off his travel-stained clothing and dressed to meet his father. … He hung a dirk at one hip and a longsword at the other…. Drawing the dirk, he … pulled a whetstone from his belt pouch, and gave it a few licks. He prided himself on keeping his weapons sharp.
Lady Lysa was still abed [like a good mattress!], but Lord Petyr was up and dressed. "Your aunt wishes to speak with you," he told Sansa, as he pulled on a boot. "I've told her who you are."The notion of a "ceiling" so high it is lost in gloom is perhaps also reworked by the story Lysa tells Sansa about Petyr's "rise" to power: She says she "always knew how high [Petyr would] rise", and it's my belief that said rise has likely seen him 'lost', spiritually, in 'darkness'. (Note that ceilings are a frequently invoked metaphor when talking about climbing the corporate ladder.)
Gods be good. "I . . . I thank you, my lord."
Petyr yanked on the other boot. "I've had about as much home as I can stomach. We'll leave for the Eyrie this afternoon."
Seven towers, Ned had told her, like white daggers thrust into the belly of the sky, so high you can stand on the parapets and look down on the clouds. (AGOT Catelyn VI)
"Half his teeth were gone, and his breath smelled like bad cheese. I cannot abide a man with foul breath. Petyr's breath is always fresh . . . he was the first man I ever kissed, you know. My father said he was too lowborn, but I knew how high he'd rise. Jon gave him the customs for Gulltown to please me, but when he increased the incomes tenfold my lord husband saw how clever he was and gave him other appointments, even brought him to King's Landing to be master of coin. That was hard, to see him every day and still be wed to that old cold man.(Recall that the motif of bad/fresh breath there reworks the "winey stench of the old man's [Sylas Sourmouth's] breath", which Theon thinks about roughly ¼ page prior to being shown his suite in the Bloody Keep.)
"Jon did his duty in the bedchamber, but he could no more give me pleasure than he could give me children. His seed was old and weak. All my babies died but Robert, three girls and two boys. All my sweet little babies dead, and that old man just went on and on with his stinking breath. So you see, I have suffered too." Lady Lysa sniffed. "You do know that your poor mother is dead?"Those references to (a) a bunch of dead "babies", including two brothers, one of which was "murdered" when Lysa's father, Hoster Tully, who ruled the Riverlands, betrayed Lysa's trust; and to (b) foul smelling breath, a la Sylas, and finally to (c) the Red Wedding — a bloody betrayal of Sansa's brother, who was King of the Riverlands — particularly (per Sansa saying "Tyrion told me") as it's described by Tyrion—
"Tyrion told me," said Sansa. "He said the Freys murdered her at The Twins, with Robb."
Sansa did not need to hear how her brother's body had been hacked and mutilated, he decided; nor how her mother's corpse had been dumped naked into the Green Fork in a savage mockery of House Tully's funeral customs. (ASOS Tyrion VII)—are one of the ways ASOS Sansa VI rejiggers the part of Theon's description of his Bloody Keep suite I "[omitted]" earlier, which entails betrayals, murdered brothers, a River King, slaughter, and bodies "hacked to bits".
[Theon] might have been more impressed if he had not known that these were the very chambers that had given the Bloody Keep its name. A thousand years before, the sons of the River King had been slaughtered here, hacked to bits in their beds so that pieces of their bodies might be sent back to their father on the mainland.Lysa's speech with its reference to her abortion and to the Red Wedding (and to stink-breath like Sylas's) isn't the only (or even the main) way Petyr's homecoming chapter refracts those images from Theon's homecoming, though.
But Greyjoys were not murdered in Pyke except once in a great while by their brothers, and his brothers were both dead.
"How many sheep do I have at present, Kella?"Note the kitchen, recalling that the Bloody Keep is paired with the Kitchen Keep as Theon first gazes on Pyke:
… "Three and twenty, m'lord. There was nine and twenty, but Bryen's dogs killed one and we butchered some others and salted down the meat."
"Ah, cold salt mutton. I must be home.…" … "Come, let's see if my hall is as dreary as I recall." … A handful of sheep were wandering about the base of the flint tower…. …
Within, the tower seemed even smaller. An open stone stair wound round the inside wall, from undercroft to roof. Each floor was but a single room. The servants lived and slept in the kitchen at ground level, sharing the space with a huge brindled mastiff and a half-dozen sheep-dogs.
Farther out were the Kitchen Keep and the Bloody Keep, each on its own island.Note, too, that the sheep are coded as Petyr's "sons", in a way (a la the "slaughtered… sons of the River King" Theon remembers in his Bloody Tower rooms), and not just because he owns them. He says that Kella has lots of bastards and that she minds his sheep, right? And what else does he say of Kella, in jest? That she 'is' the "mother" of his "daughter," "Alayne Stone":
"Alayne . . . Stone, would it be?" When he nodded, she said, "But who is my mother?"The joke foregrounds the notion of Petyr as the father of Kella's children. And while she supposedly has a bunch of bastards, we don't see them. We just see the one girl with the livestock-evoking eye with a sty. It's almost like the sheep she looks after are her children. And thus like Petyr is their father.
"Kella?"
"Please no," she said, mortified.
"I was teasing.
[T]he sons of the River King had been slaughtered here, hacked to bits in their beds so that pieces of their bodies might be sent back to their father on the mainland.(They were slaughtered and hacked to bits only so as to properly preserve them against spoilage during their upcoming journey "back to their father on the mainland", you see!)
The priest's manner was chilly, most unlike the man Theon remembered.—and Balon—
Theon pulled off his gloves. "… Why is my father not here to greet me?"—and they're thus part of a broad yin/yang 'rhyme' with Petyr's initial homecoming, which is warm and welcoming and full of familiar faces, whereas Theon knows no one, such that he thinks:
"He awaits you in the Sea Tower, m'lord. When you are rested from your trip."
And I thought Ned Stark cold.
It is as if I were a stranger here….The reversal is wryly underlined when Petyr is greeted at the shore by his "captain of the guards", Bryen:
"It is good to have you home, my lord," said one old man.Thus Petyr ironically gets the "honor guard" welcome Theon hoped he'd get on his arrival 'home':
[Theon] saw… no honor guard waiting to escort him from Lordsport to Pyke, only smallfolk going about their small business.Notice that where no one stops what they're doing for Theon, everyone stops when Petyr arrives. And of course, everyone in his household recognizes him, whereas no one recognizes Theon. Which is telling, because in a deep sense, that's all Theon really wants, deep down: a little recognition.
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Tennessee State Tennessee State | thechief107 | Spread | 4-3 |
Southern Southern | callofmc | Air | 3-4 |
Total Passing Yards | Total Rushing Yards | Total Yards | Interceptions Lost | Fumbles Lost | Field Goals | Time of Possession | Timeouts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10 yards | 0 yards | 10 yards | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0:07 | 3 |
Total Passing Yards | Total Rushing Yards | Total Yards | Interceptions Lost | Fumbles Lost | Field Goals | Time of Possession | Timeouts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 yards | 0 yards | 0 yards | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0:00 | 3 |
Clock | Quarter | Down | Ball Location | Possession | Playclock | Deadline |
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6:53 | 1 | 1st & 10 | 35 Tennessee State | Tennessee State | 06/01 11:35 PM EST | 06/10 10:31 AM EST |
Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Southern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tennessee State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023.05.31 16:14 jravitz [WTS] 250+ Bottles - Vintage, Hard to Find, Discontinued, Niche and Designer - Le Labo, Kilian, Amouage, Byredo, Dior, Chanel, Creed, MFK, Tom Ford, Guerlain, Memo Paris, Mind Games, Mizensir, More! (Bottle)
HOUSE | FRAGRANCE | SIZE | REMAINING | Notes/Condition | Price | Type | |
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1 | Amouage | Incense Rori Attar | 12mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $439 | Niche |
2 | Amouage | Material (Woman) | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box; Tester Cap | $145 | Niche |
3 | Amouage | Orris Wakan Attar | 12mL | 99% Full | Full Presentation | $419 | Niche |
4 | Amouage | Rose Aqor Attar | 12mL | 99% Full | Full Presentation | $419 | Niche |
5 | Amouage | Vanilla Barka Attar | 12mL | 99% Full | Full Presentation | $419 | Niche |
6 | Andy Tauer | Cologne du Maghreb | 50mL | 99% Full | First Release, Rectangular Clear Bottle; With box | $95 | Niche |
7 | Bond No. 9 | Madison Square Park | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box, No Cap | $135 | Niche |
8 | By Kilian | Apple Brandy on the Rocks | 50mL | 99% Full | Full Presentation, Box has some wear. | $160 | Niche |
9 | By Kilian | Bamboo Harmony | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester Refill (No Spray) | $209 | Niche |
10 | By Kilian | Black Phantom | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester Refill (No Spray) | $215 | Niche |
11 | By Kilian | Gold Knight | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester Refill (No Spray) | $209 | Niche |
12 | By Kilian | Good Girl Gone Bad | 250mL | 99% Full | Decanter; No Box | $800 | Niche |
13 | By Kilian | Intoxicated | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester Refill (No Spray) | $209 | Niche |
14 | By Kilian | Love Don't Be Shy | 50mL | 99% Full | Full Presentation, Box has some wear. | $160 | Niche |
15 | Byredo | Infloresence | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $135 | Niche |
16 | Byredo | Lil Fleur | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $135 | Niche |
17 | Byredo | Mixed Emotions | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $135 | Niche |
18 | Byredo | Mumbai Noise | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $135 | Niche |
19 | Byredo | Sunday Cologne | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $135 | Niche |
20 | Chanel Exclusif | Cuir de Russie EdT | 200mL | 95% Full | No Box; Tester | $725 | Niche |
21 | Chanel Exclusif | Misia EdT | 200mL | 98% Full | Vintage Discontinued Formula; No Box | $380 | Niche |
22 | Chanel Exclusif | No. 22 EdT | 200mL | 97% Full | $550 | Niche | |
23 | Christian Dior / Dior Privee | Bois D'Argent | 7.5mL | 100% Full | Official Mini | $30 | Niche |
24 | Christian Dior / Dior Privee | Bois D'Argent | 5mL | 100% Full | Official Mini - Batch Code 0V01 (2010 Production Date) - Price includes shipping | $35 | Niche |
25 | Christian Dior / Dior Privee | Cologne Royale | 5mL | 100% Full | Official Mini - Batch Code 1X01 (2011 Production Date) - Price includes shipping | $30 | Niche |
26 | Christian Dior / Dior Privee | Diorissima | 7.5mL | 100% Full | Official Mini; No Cannister - Price includes shipping | $30 | Niche |
27 | Christian Dior / Dior Privee | Eau Noire | 5mL | 100% Full | Official Mini - Batch Code 1R01 (2011 Production Date) - Price includes shipping | $35 | Niche |
28 | Christian Dior / Dior Privee | Eden Roc | 7.5mL | 100% Full | Official Mini - Price includes shipping | $30 | Niche |
29 | Christian Dior / Dior Privee | Granville | 5mL | 100% Full | Official Mini - Batch Code 0V01 (2010 Production Date) - Price includes shipping | $35 | Niche |
30 | Christian Dior / Dior Privee | Milly-La-Foret | 5mL | 100% Full | Official Mini - Batch Code 0W01 (2010 Production Date) - Price includes shipping | $30 | Niche |
31 | Christian Dior / Dior Privee | Mitzah | 5mL | 100% Full | Official Mini - Batch Code 1W01 (2011 Production Date) - Price includes shipping | $35 | Niche |
32 | Christian Dior / Dior Privee | New Look 1947 | 5mL | 100% Full | Official Mini - Batch Code 1R01 (2011 Production Date) - Price includes shipping | $30 | Niche |
33 | Clive Christian | I Pour Femme (Woody Floral with Vintage Rose) | 50mL | 99% Full | No Box | $180 | Niche |
34 | Clive Christian | Rock Rose | 50mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $289 | Niche |
35 | Creed | Acqua Florentina - F Batch | 75mL | 95% Full | Box, Can add a Creed Cap as well | $175 | Niche |
36 | Creed | Aventus - 22A11A | 100mL | 100% Full | Full Presentation | $250 | Niche |
37 | Creed | Aventus Cologne - 2022 Batch | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester with Cap | $234 | Niche |
38 | Creed | Aventus Cologne - F Batch (Plastic Cap) | 100mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed in Box | $239 | Niche |
39 | Creed | Aventus for Her - F567 | 75mL | 100% Full | Tester with Cap | $190 | Niche |
40 | Creed | Erolfa - 15X01 | 120mL | 100% Full | Tester with Cap | $369 | Niche |
41 | Creed | Erolfa - F Batch | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box, No Cap | $160 | Niche |
42 | Creed | Green Irish Tweed - 19U11 | 50mL | 99% Full | Full presentation with Box | $160 | Niche |
43 | Creed | Green Irish Tweed - 2022 Batch | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester with Cap | $195 | Niche |
44 | Creed | Himalaya - 22B01A | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester with Square Style Cap | $175 | Niche |
45 | Creed | Jardin D'Amalfi | 75mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box; No Cap | $199 | Niche |
46 | Creed | Millesime Imperial - F Batch | 100mL | 100% Full | Comes with Box and SQUARE Older Style Cap. | $180 | Niche |
47 | Creed | Neroli Sauvage - F241 | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box; No Cap | $160 | Niche |
48 | Creed | Original Santal - F511 | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box; No Cap | $160 | Niche |
49 | Creed | Royal Mayfair - 15R01 | 120mL | 100% Full | Tester with Cap | $229 | Niche |
50 | Creed | Royal Oud - F BATCH | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester with Cap | $275 | Niche |
51 | Creed | Royal Water - 20C01N | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester with Square Style Cap | $175 | Niche |
52 | Creed | Silver Mountain Water - 21V01A | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester with Square Style Cap | $180 | Niche |
53 | Creed | Spring Flowers 2023 | 75mL | 100% Full | Tester with Cap | $225 | Niche |
54 | Creed | Tabarome - 21Y01A | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box; No Cap | $160 | Niche |
55 | Creed | Virgin Island Water - F473 | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester with Cap | $195 | Niche |
56 | Creed | White Amber - 17W01 | 75mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box; No Cap | $149 | Niche |
57 | Creed | Wind Flowers - 22C01B | 75mL | 100% Full | Tester with Cap | $199 | Niche |
58 | Diptyque | Do Son Eau de Toilette | 100mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $99 | Niche |
59 | DS & DURGA | Amber Kiso | 100mL | 100% Full | New, No Box | $125 | Niche |
60 | Frederic Malle | Eau de Magnolia | 10mL | 100% Full | Official Travel Spray | $55 | Niche |
61 | Gallagher | Bergamot Silk | 100mL | 99% Full | $84 | Niche | |
62 | Giorgio Armani / Armani Prive | Gardenia Antigua | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $155 | Niche |
63 | Giorgio Armani / Armani Prive | Pierre de Lune | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $155 | Niche |
64 | Giorgio Armani / Armani Prive | Rose Alexandrie | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $155 | Niche |
65 | Guerlain | Angelique Noire | 30mL | 100% Full | Mini Bee Bottle Decant | $215 | Niche |
66 | Guerlain | Angelique Noire | 10mL | 100% Full | Tall Glass Decant | $55 | Niche |
67 | Guerlain | Cherry Oud | 100mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $279 | Niche |
68 | Guerlain | Cruel Gardenia | 200mL | 100% Full | Brand new tester without box | $329 | Niche |
69 | Guerlain | Embruns D'Ylang | 200mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $339 | Niche |
70 | Guerlain | Epices Volee | 200mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $339 | Niche |
71 | Guerlain | Gourmand Coquin | 10mL | 100% Full | Tall Glass Decant | $60 | Niche |
72 | Guerlain | Herbes Troublantes | 200mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $339 | Niche |
73 | Guerlain | Joyeuse Tuberuese | 200mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $349 | Niche |
74 | Guerlain | Musc Outreblanc | 200mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $349 | Niche |
75 | Guerlain | Oeillet Pourpre | 200mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $339 | Niche |
76 | Guerlain | Oud Nude | 200mL | 95% Full | Tester; No Box | $369 | Niche |
77 | Guerlain | Rose Barbare | 200mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $339 | Niche |
78 | Guerlain | Rose Barbare | 200mL | 90% Full | DECANTED - NO ORIGINAL BOTTLE | $250 | Niche |
79 | Guerlain | Santal Pao Rosa | 200mL | 100% Full | Tester (No Box) | $349 | Niche |
80 | Guerlain | Tonka Imperiale | 30mL | 100% Full | Mini Bee Bottle Decant | $199 | Niche |
81 | Guerlain | Tonka Imperiale | 10mL | 100% Full | Tall Glass Decant | $55 | Niche |
82 | Hermes / Hermessence | Agar Ebene | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box, No Cap | $150 | Niche |
83 | Hermes / Hermessence | Epice Marine | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $170 | Niche |
84 | Hermes / Hermessence | Iris Ukiyoe | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box, No Cap | $150 | Niche |
85 | Hermes / Hermessence | Osmanthe Yunnan | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box, No Cap | $150 | Niche |
86 | Hermes / Hermessence | Paprika Brasil | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box. | $170 | Niche |
87 | Hermes / Hermessence | Santal Massoia | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box. | $170 | Niche |
88 | Hermes / Hermessence | Vanille Galante | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box, No Cap | $150 | Niche |
89 | Hermes / Hermessence | Vetiver Tonka | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box, No Cap | $150 | Niche |
90 | Hermes / Hermessence | Vetiver Tonka | 200mL | 100% Full | Full Presentation, Brand New. | $399 | Niche |
91 | Hiram Green | Vetiver | 50mL | 95% Full | Full Presentation | $130 | Niche |
92 | House of Sillage | Hufflepuff | 75mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $325 | Niche |
93 | House of Sillage | Nouez Moi | 75mL | 99% Full | Tester | $120 | Niche |
94 | I Profumi di Firenze | Caterina De Medici | 50mL | 99% Full | No Box | $35 | Niche |
95 | Initio | Musk Therapy | 90mL | 99% Full | Full presentation with Box | $200 | Niche |
96 | Initio | Side Effect | 10mL | 100% Full | Official Travel Atomizer | $75 | Niche |
97 | Knize | Knize Ten | 125mL | 99% Full | No Box | $110 | Niche |
98 | Le Labo | Another 13 | 50mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $189 | Niche |
99 | Le Labo | Baie 19 | 100mL | 99% Full | Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box | $225 | Niche |
100 | Le Labo | Cedrat 37 – Berlin City Exclusive | 100mL | 99% Full | Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box | $275 | Niche |
101 | Le Labo | Cedrat 37 – Berlin City Exclusive | 50mL | 99% Full | Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box | $225 | Niche |
102 | Le Labo | Gaiac 10 – Tokyo City Exclusive | 100mL | 99% Full | Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box | $400 | Niche |
103 | Le Labo | Mousse de Chene 30 - Amsterdam City Exclusive | 50mL | 99% Full | Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box | $300 | Niche |
104 | Le Labo | Musc 25 – Los Angeles City Exclusive | 50mL | 99% Full | Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box | $250 | Niche |
105 | Le Labo | Rose 31 | 50mL | 99% Full | Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box | $175 | Niche |
106 | Le Labo | Tabac 28 – Miami City Exclusive | 50mL | 99% Full | Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box | $250 | Niche |
107 | Le Labo | The Noir 29 | 50mL | 99% Full | Sprayed Once to Test / Brand New; No Box | $175 | Niche |
108 | Maison Crivelli | Bois Datchai | 100mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $169 | Niche |
109 | Maison Crivelli | Rose Saltifolia | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $159 | Niche |
110 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | 724 | 200mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $365 | Niche |
111 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Amyris Femme | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $139 | Niche |
112 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Amyris Femme Extrait | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $165 | Niche |
113 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Amyris Femme Extrait Special Edition Bottle | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $245 | Niche |
114 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Aqua Celestia | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $115 | Niche |
115 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Aqua Celestia Cologne Forte | 200mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $279 | Niche |
116 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Aqua Celestia Cologne Forte | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $149 | Niche |
117 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Aqua Celestia Forte | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $159 | Niche |
118 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Aqua Universalis Cologne Forte | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $119 | Niche |
119 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Aqua Universalis EdT | 200mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $219 | Niche |
120 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Aqua Vitae | 200mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $219 | Niche |
121 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Aqua Vitae Cologne Forte | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $119 | Niche |
122 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Aqua Vitae Forte EdP | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $159 | Niche |
123 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Baccarat Rouge 540 EdP | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $205 | Niche |
124 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Gentle Fluidity Gold | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $165 | Niche |
125 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Grand Soir | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $170 | Niche |
126 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | L'eau a La Rose | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $129 | Niche |
127 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | L'eau a la Rose | 35mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box. | $90 | Niche |
128 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | L'homme A la Rose | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $159 | Niche |
129 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Oud EdP | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $170 | Niche |
130 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Oud Extrait | 10mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $35 | Niche |
131 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Oud Satin Mood EdP | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box. | $190 | Niche |
132 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Petit Matin | 70mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $145 | Niche |
133 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Petit Matin | 200mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $350 | Niche |
134 | Mark Birley | Charles Street | 75mL | 97% Full | Travel Version | $90 | Niche |
135 | Masque Milano | Tango | 35mL | 99% Full | $90 | Niche | |
136 | Memo Paris | French Leather | 75mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Cap | $135 | Niche |
137 | Memo Paris | Inle | 75mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Cap | $135 | Niche |
138 | Memo Paris | Italian Leather | 75mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box or Cap | $135 | Niche |
139 | Memo Paris | Lailabella | 75mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box; No Cap | $135 | Niche |
140 | Memo Paris | Marfa | 75mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box; No Cap | $135 | Niche |
141 | Memo Paris | Moon Fever | 75mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box; No Cap | $135 | Niche |
142 | Memo Paris | Oriental Leather | 75mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box; No Cap | $135 | Niche |
143 | Mind Games | Caissa | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $250 | Niche |
144 | Mind Games | Gardez (Black Queen) | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $225 | Niche |
145 | Mind Games | J'Adoube | 100mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $299 | Niche |
146 | Mind Games | Scholar's Mate | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $225 | Niche |
147 | Mizensir | Cologne de Figuer | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box. | $175 | Niche |
148 | Mizensir | Cologne de Matte | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box. | $175 | Niche |
149 | Mizensir | Ideal Oud | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $165 | Niche |
150 | Mizensir | Mythique Vetiver | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box. | $175 | Niche |
151 | Mizensir | Sweet Prailine | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $165 | Niche |
152 | Mizensir | Bois de Mysore | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $165 | Niche |
153 | Mona di Orio | Cuir | 75mL | 99% Full | No Box | $120 | Niche |
154 | Oliver and Co. | M.O.U.S.S.E. | 50mL | 99% Full | Limited Edition 87/133 | $110 | Niche |
155 | Parfums de Nicolai | Patchouli Intense | 100mL | 98% Full | Full Presentation | $119 | Niche |
156 | Perris Monte Carlo | Tuberuese Absolue | 100mL | 99% Full | No Box | $99 | Niche |
157 | Pomare's Stolen Perfume | Angel's Share | 9mL | 70% Full | No Box | $40 | Niche |
158 | Roja Dove | Apex Discovery Atomizer | 7.5mL | 99% Full | $50 | Niche | |
159 | Roja Dove | Creation-E Essence de Parfum | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $165 | Niche |
160 | Roja Dove | Scandal Essence de Parfum | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $165 | Niche |
161 | Roman Monegal | L'eau de Rose | 50mL | 97% Full | $70 | Niche | |
162 | Santa Maria Novella | Sandalo | 100mL | 95% Full | No Box | $80 | Niche |
163 | The Harmonist | Desired Earth Eau de Parfum | 50mL | 100% Full | Brand new, Sealed | $219 | Niche |
164 | The Harmonist | Magnetic Wood Parfum | 50mL | 100% Full | BNIB Sealed | $229 | Niche |
165 | Tom Ford | Beau de Jour | 1000mL | 100% Full | Sealed Dramming Bottle | $1,000 | Niche |
166 | Tom Ford | Ebene Fume | 250mL | 99% Full | Decanter; No Box | $750 | Niche |
167 | Tom Ford | Ebene Fume | 50mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $170 | Niche |
168 | Tom Ford | Fougere Platine | 250mL | 90% Full | Decanter; No Box | $625 | Niche |
169 | Tom Ford | Fougere Platine | 1000mL | 100% Full | Sealed Dramming Bottle | $1,000 | Niche |
170 | Tom Ford | Fucking Fabulous | 250mL | 99% Full | Decanter; No Box | $750 | Niche |
171 | Tom Ford | Fucking Fabulous | 50mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $180 | Niche |
172 | Tom Ford | Grey Vetiver Parfum | 100mL | 100% Full | Sealed, New in Box | $170 | Niche |
173 | Tom Ford | Oud Fleur | 1000mL | 100% Full | Sealed Dramming Bottle | $1,000 | Niche |
174 | Tom Ford | Oud Wood | 250mL | 99% Full | Decanter; No Box | $750 | Niche |
175 | Tom Ford | Rose de Chine | 50mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $175 | Niche |
176 | Tom Ford | Rose Prick | 100mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $269 | Niche |
177 | Tom Ford | Soleil Blanc EdP | 50mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $140 | Niche |
178 | Tom Ford | Soleil Brulant | 50mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $145 | Niche |
179 | Tom Ford | Soleil Neige | 1000mL | 100% Full | Sealed Dramming Bottle | $850 | Niche |
180 | Tom Ford | Tobacco Oud | 50mL | 95% Full | No Box | $180 | Niche |
181 | Tom Ford | Tobacco Vanille | 50mL | 90% Full | Full Presentation with Box | $155 | Niche |
182 | Tom Ford | Tuscan Leather | 50mL | 100% Full | Magnetic Cap Decant | $115 | Niche |
183 | Tom Ford | Vert des Bois | 1000mL | 100% Full | Sealed Dramming Bottle | $900 | Niche |
184 | Tom Ford | White Suede | 1000mL | 100% Full | Sealed Dramming Bottle | $850 | Niche |
185 | TVGA | Milestones Extrait | 9mL | 90% Full | No Box | $40 | Niche |
186 | Washington Tremlett | Black Tie | 100mL | 95% Full | $125 | Niche | |
187 | Yves Saint Laurent | Tuxedo | 250mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $375 | Niche |
188 | Acqua di Parma | Arancia Di Capri | 150mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $65 | Designer |
189 | Acqua di Parma | Colonia EdC | 100mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $75 | Designer |
190 | Acqua di Parma | Colonia Intensa | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $65 | Designer |
191 | Aqua di Parma | Magnolia Nobile | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $115 | Designer |
192 | Caron | Pour un Homme de Caron Le Matin | 125mL | 100% Full | Opened to test, sprayed once | $69 | Designer |
193 | Caron | Pour un Homme de Caron Le Soir | 125mL | 100% Full | Opened to test, sprayed once | $69 | Designer |
194 | Caron | Pour Un Homme Impact Parfum | 75mL | 97% Full | No Box | $175 | Designer |
195 | Chanel | Allure Homme Sport - Aftershave Balm | 100mL | 99% Full | No Box | $65 | Designer |
196 | Chanel | Allure Pour Femme EdT | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $65 | Designer |
197 | Chanel | Antaeus | 100mL | 85% Full | Silver Sprayer | $125 | Designer |
198 | Chanel | Bleu de Chanel - Aftershave Balm | 100mL | 99% Full | No Box, Minor Cosmetic Damage | $55 | Designer |
199 | Chanel | Bleu de Chanel - Aftershave Lotion | 100mL | 99% Full | No Box, Minor Cosmetic Damage | $55 | Designer |
200 | Chanel | Bleu de Chanel Parfum | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $130 | Designer |
201 | Chanel | Chance Eau Tendre EdP | 50mL | 90% Full | Tester; No Box | $90 | Designer |
202 | Chanel | Chance Eau Tendre EdT | 150mL | 99% Full | Tester; No Box | $120 | Designer |
203 | Chanel | Coco EdP | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $85 | Designer |
204 | Chanel | Coco Mademoiselle - Moisturizing Body Lotion | 200mL | 99% Full | No Box | $55 | Designer |
205 | Chanel | Coco Mademoiselle EdP | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $90 | Designer |
206 | Chanel | Coco Mademoiselle EdT | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $65 | Designer |
207 | Chanel | Coco Mademoiselle L'eau Privee | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $90 | Designer |
208 | Chanel | Cristalle Eau Vert EdT Concentree | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $135 | Designer |
209 | Chanel | Cristalle EdP | 50mL | 95% Full | Tester; No Box | $135 | Designer |
210 | Chanel | No. 19 | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $115 | Designer |
211 | Chanel | No. 5 Eau Premiere | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $85 | Designer |
212 | Chanel | No. 5 EdP | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $85 | Designer |
213 | Chanel | Platinum Egoiste | 75mL | 99% Full | SPLASH, NOT SPRAY Older Formulation | $125 | Designer |
214 | Christian Dior | Dior Homme Sport - 2017 Version | 125mL | 99% Full | Tester; No Box Batch Code is 6Y02 | $89 | Designer |
215 | Christian Dior | J'adore in Joy EdT | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester with Cap, No Box | $60 | Designer |
216 | Floris | 007 | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester with Cap, No Box | $100 | Designer |
217 | Floris | A Rose For... | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box. | $65 | Designer |
218 | Floris | Cefiro | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester with Cap, No Box | $59 | Designer |
219 | Floris | Lily of the Valley | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box. | $65 | Designer |
220 | Gucci | Gucci Guilty Absolute | 90mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $70 | Designer |
221 | Guerlain | Habit Rouge L'instinct | 100mL | 99% Full | Sprayed once | $84 | Designer |
222 | Guerlain | L'instant de Guerlain Pour Homme EXTREME | 10mL | 100% Full | VINTAGE BLACK RIM - DECANT | $50 | Designer |
223 | Hermes | Twilly | 80mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Box | $65 | Designer |
224 | Jo Malone | Amber & Lavender | 30mL | 90% Full | No Box | $52 | Designer |
225 | Jo Malone | English Oak & Redcurrant | 30mL | 80% Full | No Box | $49 | Designer |
226 | Jo Malone | English Pear & Freesia | 100mL | 100% Full | Brand New with Gift Box and Gift Set (Body Wash, Body Lotion) | $180 | Designer |
227 | Jo Malone | Rose & White Musk Absolu | 100mL | 100% Full | No Box | $180 | Designer |
228 | Jo Malone | Velvet Rose and Oud Cologne Intense | 50mL | 99% Full | Tester; No Box | $90 | Designer |
229 | Thierry Mugler | A*MEN | 100mL | 99% Full | Rubber Flask; No Box | $75 | Designer |
230 | Thierry Mugler | A*MEN Ultra Zest | 100mL | 85-90% Full | Rubber Flask; No Box | $250 | Designer |
231 | Tom Ford | Costa Azzura Parfum | 50mL | 100% Full | Brand New, Sealed | $130 | Designer |
232 | Amouage | Cristal and Gold Ladies | 50mL | 95% Full | Vintage, Incredibly hard to find. Full presentation in nice condition | $399 | Vintage |
233 | Cartier | Santos EdT | 100mL | 60% Full | Splash; Refillable; Original Formulation; No Box; Some Wear on Case | $149 | Vintage |
234 | Chanel | Egoiste Cologne Concentree | 100mL | 97% Full | Bottle Only | $399 | Vintage |
235 | Chanel | Gardenia EdT | 100mL | 100% Full | Vintage; Sealed | $390 | Vintage |
236 | Crabtree & Evelyn | Crabtree & Evelyn Extract of West Indian and Sicilian Limes | 125mL | 100% Full | Full presentation with Box | $209 | Vintage |
237 | Dunhill | Cologne | 125mL | 99% Full | Vintage; Splash | $100 | Vintage |
238 | Escada | Pour Homme Aftershave | 75mL | 100% Full | BNIB Sealed | $165 | Vintage |
239 | Escada | Pour Homme Aftershave | 125mL | 100% Full | BNIB Sealed | $240 | Vintage |
240 | Floris | Bay Rum | 3.5 Oz | 97% Full | Vintage; Splash. "Use as a cologne, after shave lotion, or hair lotion." | $84 | Vintage |
241 | Floris | Special 127 | 100mL | 98% Full | Vintage; Dark Blue Box., 2 Royal Warrants, Vintage Version | $70 | Vintage |
242 | Fragonard | Zizanie | 240mL | 80% Full | Shaker bottle (Splash, not spray) no box. At least 80% Full. | $240 | Vintage |
243 | Geo F Trumper | Ajaccio Violets | 100mL | 99% Full | $40 | Vintage | |
244 | Gucci | Envy Aftershave | 50mL | 100% Full | BNIB Sealed | $140 | Vintage |
245 | Gucci | Envy Aftershave | 100mL | 100% Full | BNIB Sealed | $215 | Vintage |
246 | Gucci | Rush for Men | 50mL | 100% Full | Full Presentation; These do not come fully filled | $190 | Vintage |
247 | Gucci | Rush for Men Aftershave | 100mL | 100% Full | BNIB Sealed | $140 | Vintage |
248 | Guerlain | Heritage EdT | 200mL | 100% Full | New; Vintage; Splash. 1991 Bottle. | $225 | Vintage |
249 | Guerlain | Samrasa EdP | 50mL | 100% Full | No Box | $109 | Vintage |
250 | Guerlain | Samsara EdT 1992-1993 Formulation | 100mL | 100% Full | Tester; No Cap; No Box | $109 | Vintage |
251 | Jean Desprez | Bal a Versailles | 9 Oz | 70% Full | Vintage; Splash; No Box Open to offers on this enormous bottle. | $135 | Vintage |
252 | Lacoste | Eau de Sport Vivifiante | 100mL | 99% Full | No Box | $110 | Vintage |
253 | Lacoste | Land | 100mL | 99% Full | $130 | Vintage | |
254 | Nino Cerruti | Fair Play Pour Homme | 100mL | 99% Full | Full presentation with Box | $275 | Vintage |
255 | Paco Rabanne | Eau de Metal | 20mL | 100% Full | Vintage; Mini | $15 | Vintage |
256 | Ralph Lauren | Silver Romance for Men | 100mL | 80% Full | No Box, No Cap | $145 | Vintage |
257 | Revillon | Pour Homme Eau de Toilette Super Concentrate | 60mL | 99% Full | Atomizer | $190 | Vintage |
258 | Revillon | Pour Homme Eau de Toilette Super Concentrate | 90mL | 99% Full | Atomizer | $290 | Vintage |