The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though.

In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can't have realistic feeling scenery. You can't have cool, unique backdrops for your story.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's not your fault.