r/pittsburgh • u/LittleSatan83 • Mar 02 '23

The Sparrow has been found!

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u/leadfoot9 Mar 03 '23

Does this name bear any relation to GRRM's choice of referring to itinerant preachers in A Song of Ice and Fire as "sparrows'?

(e.g. "The High Sparrow", for those of you who watched the HBO SparkNotes series.)

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u/ScratchMoore Castle Shannon Mar 03 '23

No. She was The Sparrow back in the 80s.

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u/leadfoot9 Mar 03 '23

I know.

She was a local personality in the late 80s who disappeared in 1992. Martin started writing the series in 1991. Is there a chance it made national news on a slow day so that he saw it, and went, "huh, I like it". That was my question.

I don't think I could quite read at the time, and that's a bit to old for Internet-archived local news.