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“The Wall was made to guard the realms of men… and not against other men, which is all the wildlings are when you come right down to it. Too many years, Tarly, too many hundreds of thousands of years. We lost sight of the true enemy. And now he’s here…”

Triumph and dread and hope and cold and silence. Fiction is at its best when it can inspire as many contrasting feelings as naturally as this.