His firm's goal was to fill their gender quota—and simultaneously do some rainmaking by hiring the daughters of CEOs.

Tyrion is made to be a strategic fool. I haven’t been as hard on this aspect of the season as others, because I buy that Tyrion might overestimate himself in military matters. But face-to-face negotiation with power players in the capital? Now that really is his bread and butter, and after a season of fucking things up in Dragonstone, he once again completely misreads the situation in King’s Landing.

Yet something of this strange author’s deep concern for our spiritual welfare does manage to penetrate through the blanket of stream-of-consciousness pretentiosity in which he has tried to hide it.

The German student of the present day is perhaps as fond of the quiz-compend as his American confrere and in no country do the Repetitoria find such a large sale as in Germany or Austria-Hungary.