7/14/2023 0 Comments Terry pratchett night watch![]() Sheep just ran they didn't try to bite the sheep next to them. But now he’s back in his own rough, tough past, without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. And when that happened, humans were worse than sheep. Truth Justice Freedom And a hard-boiled egg Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. It was what happened when the machinery of city life faltered, the wheels stopped turning and all the little rules broke down. (I may have done this already.) Summary Vimes begins dispensing wisdom to his younger. It'd be people who were frightened and panicking. Happy one-day-belated Glorious 25th of May Let’s all sit out on the steps with cups of cocoa in remembrance. What would run through the streets soon enough wouldn't be a revolution or a riot. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.Īs soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. ![]() They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. Vimes had spent his life on the streets, and had met decent men and fools and people who'd steal a penny from a blind beggar and people who performed silent miracles or desperate crimes every day behind the grubby windows of little houses, but he'd never met The People. The Pratchett Quote File (PQF) is a collection of one-liners, catchphrases, quotes, bits of dialogue, and running gags, all culled from Terry Pratchetts novels and other writings. And some had been idiots as mad as Swing, with a view of the world just as rigid and unreal, who were on the side of what they called 'the people'. Some were young people with no money who objected to the fact that the world was run by old people who were rich. Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. ![]() “There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. ![]()
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