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A Really Bad Look

Normally, I’d do a Friday Photo post. It would certainly be more pleasant. Unfortunately, yesterday the Author’s Guild decided to completely betray its members by ...

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Published on October 11, 2024 06:43
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ScholasticPerturbation "One of the Patrician’s greatest contributions to the reliable operation of Ankh-Morpork had been, very early in his administration, the legalising of the ancient Guild of Thieves. Crime was always with us, he reasoned, and therefore, if you were going to have crime, it at least should be organised crime.


And so the Guild had been encouraged to come out of the shadows and build a big Guildhouse, take their place at civic banquets, and set up their training college with day-release courses and City and Guilds certificates and everything. In exchange for the winding down of the Watch, they agreed, while trying to keep their faces straight, to keep crime levels to a level to be determined annually. That way, everyone could plan ahead, said Lord Vetinari, and part of the uncertainty had been removed from the chaos that is life." Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett


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