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And this,' said Corporal Carrot, 'is the famous commemorative arch celebrating the Battle of Crumhorn. We won it, I think. It's got over ninety statues of famous soldiers. It's something of a landmark.'
'Should have put up a stachoo to the accountants,' said a doggy voice behind Angua. 'First battle in the universe where the enemy stool at the road junction, with his hat over his eyes. He pushed it up.
Afternoon, Mr Carrot. You'll be wanting to see the triumphal arch, will you?'
'Yes, please.' Carrot turned back to Angua. 'Unfortunately, the actual practical design was turned over to Bloody Stupid Johnson.'
The old man eventually produced a small cardboard box from a pocket, and reverentially took off the lid.
'Where is it?'were persuaded to sell their weapons.''Where is it, then?' said Angua, still ignoring Gaspode.Ah. Yes. That's the problem,' said Carrot. 'Excuse me, Mr Scant. This is Mr Scant. Official Keeper of the Monuments. According to ancient tradition, his pay is one dollar a year and a new vest every Hogswatchday.'There was an old man sitting on a

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'What does that mean?' she said.
'I don't know. ladyship's now.'
'Learning to be a gentleman,' said Nobby.
'I'm going to tell him,' said Carrot.
Angua glanced through the grubby window. The moon would be up soon. That was one trouble with cities. The damn thing could be lurking behind a tower if you weren't careful.
'And I'd better be getting back to my lodgings,' she said.
'I'll accompany you,' said Carrot, quickly. 'I ought to go and fiSomething's gone, I suppose. Perhaps it's Mr Gonne's visiting card, whoever he is,' said Nobby. 'Who cares? Let's have ano—'Carrot took the card and turned it over and over in his hands.'Save the pin,' said Cuddy. 'You only get five of them for a penny. My cousin Gimick makes them.''This is important,' said Carrot, slowly. 'The captain ought to know about this. I think he was looking for it.''What's important about it?' said Sergeant Colon. 'Apart from my foot hurting like blazes.''I don't know. The captain'll know,' said Carrot stubbornly.'You tell him, then,' said Colon. 'He's staying up at her

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in cellars and only came out at night.
Carrot moved through the baking streets with a proprietorial air and a slight patina of honest sweat, occasionally exchanging a greeting. Everyone knew Carrot. He was easily recognizable. No-one else was about two metres tall with flame-red hair. Besides, he walked as if he owned the city.
'Who was that man 'Doesn't look very happy about it,' said Angua.
'Couldn't say.'
'I don't think he likes the new recruits.'
The other thing about Constable Carrot was that he was incapable with the granite face I saw in the Watch House?' said Angua, as they proceeded along Broad Way.'That was Detritus the troll,' said Carrot. 'He used to be a bit of a criminal, but now he's courting Ruby she says he's got to—''No, that man,' said Angua, learning as had so many others that Carrot tended to have a bit of trouble with metaphors. 'Face like thu—face like someone very disgruntled.''Oh, that was Captain Vimes. But he's never been gruntled, I think. He's retiring at the end of the week, and getting married.'

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hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always slightly lost. It’s a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.
Elves are never lost at all. It’s a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.
Elves have absolute Almost everyone else would not have thought much about it. But Ponder’s wretched fate was to look for patterns in an uncaring world.
“But I hardly touched him,” he said, to no one except himself.
“’And I kissed her in the shrubbery where the nightingales—sing it, you bastards! Two, three!”
They didn’t know where they were. They didn’t know where they’d been. They position. The flow of the silvery force dimly outlines the landscape. Creatures generate small amounts of it themselves, and become perceptible in the flux. Their muscles crackle with it, their minds buzz with it. For those who learn how, even thoughts can be read by the tiny local changes in the flow.276LQRQS ft^O t.ft0/£8For an elf, the world is something to reach out and take. Except for the terrible metal that drinks the force and deforms the flux universe like a heavy weight on a rubber sheet and blinds them and deafens them and leaves them rudderless and more alone than most humans could ever be...The elf toppled forward.Ponder Stibbons lowered the sword.

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palaces, for some strange reason generally while the local lord was away. He also had a dwarfish ability with locks, always a use-ful talent for those awkward moments sur la boudoir.
And Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it could accommodate three football fields . Magic don’t work on ‘em. They see through illusions. They ought to, they’re good enough at ‘em. How about the bank? Reckon you could scramble up it?”
They both glanced at the banks. They were red clay, slip-pery as priests.
“Let’s walk backward,” said Granny. “Slowly.”
“How about its mind? Can you get in?”
“There’s someone in there already. The poor thing’s her pet. It obeys and a bowling alley.“I wish I had my crossbow,” muttered Ridcully. “With that head on my wall I’d always have a place to hang my hat.”The unicorn tossed its head and pawed the ground.Steam rose from its flanks.“I ain’t sure that would work,” said Granny. “You sure you’ve got no whoosh left in them fingers of yours?”“I could create an illusion,” said the wizard. “That’s nothard.”“It wouldn’t work. The unicorn is an elvish creature

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Capital! We’re in pocket on the trip. So if these gentle-men would just remove the roadblock, we’ll be on our way.”
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“In fact, there was a third horse I’ve just remembered about.”
“This isn’t what you’re supposed to do! You’re supposed to be robbed!” shouted the coachman.
Ridcully pushed him off the board.
“We’re on holiday,” he said.
The coach rattled away There was a distant cry of “And four horses, don’t forget” before it rounded a bend.
The pumpkin developed a mouth.
“Have they gone?”
“Yes, boss.”
“Roll me into “Well?”
“I mean ... you know ... an old wives’ tale?”
“So?”the shade, will you? And no one say any-thing about this ever again. Has anyone got any dried frog pills?”Verence II respected witches. They’d put him on the throne. He was pretty certain of that, although he couldn’t quite work out how it had happened. And he was in awe of Granny Weatherwax.He followed her meekly toward the dungeons, hurrying to keep up with her long stride.“What’s happening, Mistress Weatherwax?”“Got something to show you.”“You mentioned elves.”“That’s right.”“I thought they were a fairy story.”
Granny Weatherwax seemed to generate a gyroscopic field—if you started out off-balance, she saw to it that you remained there.

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What? A proper ceremony and everything?”
“Yes!”
“Hmm.” Ridcully stroked his beard. “You sure?”
“Certain, Archchancellor.”
“My word! I never knew that.”
Ponder felt he was getting somewhere.
“So—“
“Yes?”
“Why don’t I remember it?”
Ponder had been ready for this.
““Is he? Huh! You’d think I’d think of me, wouldn’t you?
What a bastard!”
It wasn’t that Ridcully was stupid. Truly stupid wizards have the life expectancy of a glass hammer. He had quite a powerful intellect, but it was powerful like a locomotive, and ran on rails and was therefore almost impossible to steer.
There are indeed such things as parallel universes, although Because the you in the other universe is different from the you here,” he said. “It was a different you that got mar-ried. He’s probably settled down somewhere. He’s probably a great-grandad by now.”“He never writes, I know that,” said Ridcully “And the bastard never invited me to the wedding.”l Ponder was one hundred percent wrong about this. 93Terry Pratchett“Who?”“Him.”“But he’s you!”

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besom, Esme,” said Nanny Ogg. “Just because she’s getting wed.”
“You know what she’d say if we told her,” said Granny Weatherwax. “She’d get it all wrong. The Gentry. Circles. She’d say it was . .. nice. Best for her if she’s out of it.”
“They ain’t been active for years and years,” said Nanny. “We’ll need some help. I mean . . . when did you last go up to the sharp and ragged mountains where even trolls wouldn’t go and valleys so deep that they have to pipe the sunlight in.
There was an overgrown path up to the moorland where the Dancers stood, even though it was only a few miles from the town. Hunters tracked up there sometimes, but only by accident. It wasn’t that Dancers?”“You know how it is,” said Granny “When it’s so quiet... you don’t think about ‘em.”“We ought to have kept ‘em cleared.”“True.”“We better get up there first thing tomorrow,” said Nanny Ogg.“Yes.”“Better bring a sickle, too.”There isn’t much of the kingdom of Lancre where you coulddrop a football and not have it roll away from you. Most ofit is moorland and steeply forested hillside, giving way to26LOR06 ft/YD ift0f£6

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Anyway, right, then he pushed through the line of guards what was holding the crowd back and stood right in front of the doors, and they weren't sure what to do about bishops, and I heard him say something like, I carried you in the desert, I like a beacon in Om's senses. There's a streak of madness in everyone who spends quality time with gods, and it was driving the boy now.
"It's too soon!" Om yelled. "You need followers! It can't be just you! You can't do it by yourself! You have to get disciples first!"


Simony turned to look down the length of the Turtle. Thirty men were crouched under the shell, looking very apprehensive.
A corporal saluted.
"The needle's there, sergeant."believed all my life, just give me this one thing."X. Something like that, anyway. How about some yoghurt? Bargain offer. Onna stick." Om lifted himself over a creeper-clad wall by grasping tendrils in his beak and hauling himself up by the neck muscles. Then he fell down the other side. The Citadel was as far away as ever.Brutha's mind was flaming

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Ichlos looked at the sands stretching away. He knew instinctively what he had to do. He was far less sophisticated than General Fri'it, and took more notice of songs he'd learned in his childhood. Besides, he had an advantage. He'd had even less religion than the general.
JUDGEMENT IS AT THE END OF THE DESERT.
Ichlos tried to smile.
"My mum told me about this," he said. "When you're dead, you have to walk a desert. And you see everything properly, she said. And remember everything right."
Death studiously did nothing to indicate his feelings either way.
"Might twenty?"
"Always wanted to do that," murmured Didactylos happily. "Upholding truth in the face of tyranny and so on. Hah! One man, unafraid of the-”
"What to take? What to take?" shouted Urn.
"We don't need Grido's Mechanics," said Didactylos. "Hey, I wish I could have seen the look on his face! Damn good shot, considering. I just hope someone wrote down what I-”
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he'd drunk too much tonight, from a secret cache of wine whose discovery would deliver him into the machinery of the inquisitors within ten minutes.
Yes, you could say this for old Vorbis. Once upon a time the Quisition had been bribable, but not anymore. The chief He'd learned about the Turtle, there. It had all made sense. He'd thought: it sounds right. It makes sense. But sense or not, that thought was sending him to hell.
Vorbis knew about him. He must do. There were spies everywhere. Sasho had been useful. How much had Vorbis got out of him? Had he said what he knew?exquisitor had gone back to fundamentals. Now there was a democracy of sharp knives. Better than that, in fact. The search for heresy was pursued even more vigorously among the higher levels in the Church. Vorbis had made it clear: the higher up the tree, the blunter the saw.Give me that old-time religion . . .He squeezed his eyes shut again, and all he could see were the horns of the temple, or fragmented suggestions of the carnage to come, or . . . the face of Vorbis.He'd liked that white city.Even the slaves had been content. There were rules about slaves. There were things you couldn't do to slaves. Slaves had value.

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Brutha's enormous sandals flapped and flapped on the flagstones. Brutha always put a lot of effort into running; he ran from the knees, lower legs thrashing like paddlewheels.
This was It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys. It is used. And one of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary too much. There was a tortoise who said he was the God, and this couldn't be true except that it must be true, because of what it knew. And he'd been tried by the Quisition. Or something like that. Anyway, it hadn't been as painful as he'd been led to expect."Brutha!"The square, normally alive with the susurration of a thousand prayers, had gone quiet. The pilgrims had all turned to face the Temple.His mind boiling with the events of the day, Brutha shouldered his way through the suddenly silent crowd . . . ."Brutha!"People have reality-dampers.

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the hells. Will you join them?"
". . . don't know names . . ."
"I trusted you, Sasho. You spied on me. You betrayed the Church."
". . . no names . . ."
"Truth is surcease from pain, Sasho. Tell me."
". . . truth . . ."
Vorbis sighed. And then he saw one of Sasho's fingers curling and uncurling under the manacles. Beckoning.
"Yes?"?"
"Two days, lord."
"And you can keep him alive for-?"
"Perhaps two days more, lord."
"Do so. Do so. It is, after all," said Vorbis, "our duty to preserve He leaned closer over the body.Sasho opened his one remaining eye.". . .truth . . .""Yes?"". . . The Turtle Moves . . ."Vorbis sat back, his expression unchanged. His expression seldom changed unless he wanted it to. The inquisitor watched him in terror."I see," said Vorbis. He stood up, and nodded at the inquisitor."How long has he been down here

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ancestry, and in times of stress he felt an overpowering urge to make a run for his burrow.
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Wasn't that a tower over in Quirm, where the Circle Sea opened on to the great Rim Ocean? And there were others.
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'Looking for a man, little lady?' he said.
She looked up at him.
'Please keep him here. It was not a reassuring thought.
A hand closed around his mouth. Two more grabbed the hatbox from his arms.
Conina spun past him, lifting her skirt to place a neat foot on a target beside Rincewind's waist. Someone whimpered in his ear and collapsed. As the girl pirouet­ted gracefully around she picked up two bottles, knocked out their bottoms on the shelf and landed with their jagged ends held out in front of her. Morpork daggers, they were called in the patois of the streets.away'A snake of laughter writhed around the room. Conina's mouth snapped shut like a letterbox.‘Ah,’ the big man gurgled, 'that's right, I likes a girl with spirit-‘Conina's hand moved. It was a pale blur, stopping here and here: after a few seconds of disbelief the man gave a little grunt and folded up, very slowly.Rincewind shrank back as every other man in the room leaned forward. His instinct was to run, and he knew it was an instinct that would get him instantly killed. It was the Shades out there. Whatever was going to happen to him next was going to happen to

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he unclicked the little latch and lifted the lid.
Clockwork whirred.
The tune it up again. Two figures, spinning through time. And when the music stopped, all you needed was to turn the key.
When it ran down again, he sat in the silence and the dark, and reached a decision.
There were only seconds left. Seconds had meant a lot to Bill Door, because he’d had a limited supply. They meant nothing at all to Death, who’d never had any.
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The Dean pushed him away and blew off the wheels of a leading trolley.
‘That’s my staff!’
The wizards stood back to back in a narrowing ring of metal.
‘They’re not right for this city, ‘ said the Lecturer in Recent Runes.
‘I know what you mean, ‘ said Ridcully. ‘Alien.’
‘I suppose stacked it with the others. Miss Flitworth scuttled past him, bent double under a load of corn.* The two of them worked steadily, crisscrossing the field in the teeth of the storm to snatch up the harvest before the wind and hail stole it away. Lightning no-one’s got a flying spell on them today?’ the Senior Wrangler enquired.The Dean took aim again and melted a basket.‘That’s my staff you’re using, you know.’‘Shut up, Bursar,’ said the Archchancellor. ‘And, Dean, you’re getting nowhere picking them off one by one like that. OK, lads? We want to do them all as much damage as possible. Remember - wild, uncontrolled bursts . . .’ The trolleys advanced. Ow. Ow. Miss Flitworth staggered through the wet, rattling gloom. Hailstones crunched underfoot. Thunder cannonaded around the sky. ‘They sting, don’t they,’ she said.THEY ECHO.Bill Door fielded a stook as it was blown past, and

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She’s my shame,’ said Mrs Cake.
‘Mother, you do go on,’ said Ludmilla, without rancour.
‘Join hands, ‘ said Mrs Cake.
They sat in the Cake. ‘Everyone knows you got run over by a cart in Treacle Street because you was drunk, One-Man-Bucket.’ s’not my fault. not my fault. is it my fault my great-grandad moved here? by rights I should have been mauled to death by a mountain lion or a giasemi-darkness. Then Windle felt Mrs Cake’s hand being pulled away.‘Oi forgot about the glass,’ she said.‘I thought, Mrs Cake, that you didn’t hold with ouija boards and that sort of -‘ Windle began.There was a glugging noise from the sideboard. Mrs Cake put a full glass on the tablecloth and sat down again.‘Oi don’t,’ she said.Silence descended again. Windle cleared his throat nervously. Eventually Mrs Cake said, ‘All right, One-Man-Bucket, oi knows you’re there.’The glass moved. The amber liquid inside sloshed gently. A bodiless voice quavered, greetings, pale face, from the happy hunting ground - ‘You stop that,’ said Mrs nt mammoth or something. I bin denied my

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robbery and is Lying Low. He’s cut a whole row already. One at a time, but somehow faster than a man cutting swathe by swathe . . .
Miss Flitworth’s only reading matter was the Farmer’s Almanac and Seed Catalogue, which could last a whole happened locally were the occasional theft of a chicken, and the occasional wandering troll. Of course, there were also robbers and bandits in the hills but they got on well with the actual residents and were essential to the local economy. Even so, she felt she’d certainly feel safer with someone else about the place.
The dark figure on the hillside was well into the second row. Behind it, the cut grass year in the privy if no-one was ill. In addition to sober information about phases of the moon and seed sowings it took a certain grisly relish in recounting the various mass murders, vicious robberies and natural disasters that befell mankind, on the lines of ‘June 15, Year of the Impromptu Stoat: On this Day 150 yrs. since, a Man killed by Freak shower of ?Goul~.h? in Quirm’ or ‘14 die at hands of Chume, the Notorious Herring Thrower.’The important thing about all these was that they happened a long way away, possibly by some kind of divine intervention. The only things that usually

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.’
‘I really am very touched, you know,’ said Windle, lying back in the coffin. It was quite a good one, from the mortuary in Elm Street. The Archchancellor had let him choose it himself.
Ridcully picked up a mallet.
Windle sat up again.
‘Everyone’s going to so much trouble -‘
‘Yes, right,’ said Ridcully, looking around.‘Now - who’s got the stake?’Everyone looked at the Bursar.The Bursar looked unhappy.He fumbled in a bag. ‘I couldn’t get any, ‘ he said.The Archchancellor put his hand over his eyes.‘All right,’ he said quietly.’You know, I’m not surprised? Not surprised at all. What did you get? Lamb chops? A nice piece of pork?’ ‘Celery, ‘ said the Bursar.
‘It’s his nerves, ‘ said the Dean, quickly.
‘Celery,’ said the Archchancellor, his self-control rigid enough to bend horseshoes around.’ Right.’
The Bursar handed him a soggy green bundle.
Ridcully took it.
‘Now, Windle, ‘ he said, ‘I ‘d like you to imagine that what I have in my