Spoilers for Game of Thrones, season 7 below.
On the second episode of Game of Thrones season seven, Samwell Tarly took a break from peeling off oozing, diseased skin and emptying poop buckets to have a conversation with Archmaester Marwyn:
"If you're going to write histories, Tarly, you have to do the research," he lectures during a stroll through the library. "If you want people to read your histories, you need a bit of style. I'm not writing, A Chronicle of the Wars of Following the Death of King Robert I so it can sit on a shelf unread.'"
Cue Samwell's face of disgust.
"What? You don't like the title? What would you call it then?"
"Mm, possibly something a bit more poetic?"
"We're not poets, Tarly."