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David P. Macpherson
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Here Be Dragons
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“Huggle was not a hero. You could tell from the way his thighs chafed as he ran.”
― Here Be Dragons
― Here Be Dragons
“The forest could kill you in a thousand ways, yet it had no guiding purpose, no evil heart, no curse set on. There was no malicious spirit tugging at the silvery strands of spider silk that ran through the canopy. It simply was. And even though it was filled with dangerous creatures, the most deadly aspects of the Grimwood were not its residents. Most people who died there were not killed by wolves or carried off by giants to give extra body to a pot of goulash. They weren’t lured into one of the many caves by will-o-the-wisps to be calcified and turned into stalactites. They weren’t swallowed up by carnivorous moss men while they slept or plucked from their horses by snatcher vines to be slowly dissolved in the plant’s innards (most mind you – these things did happen). No. Nothing so exciting. The fact was that the large majority of people taken by the forest died from normal, rather boring things like starvation, falling trees, slips into ravines or, and this was by far the greatest cause of death, pure stupidity.”
― Here Be Dragons
― Here Be Dragons
“Still, if he kept at it, kept plugging away, it would all pay off in the end. It had to. Otherwise, it just wouldn’t be fair.”
― Here Be Dragons
― Here Be Dragons
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Men at Arms: The Play
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Men at Arms: The Play
“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
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