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would normally have added up to 'stupid' in any case and would have given him the survival quotient of a jellyfish in a blast furnace, but there were a couple of other factors. One was a punch that even trolls had learned to respect. The other was that Carrot was genuinely, almost supernaturally, likeable. He got on well with people, even while arresting them. He had an exceptional memory for names.
For most of his young life he'd lived in a small dwarf colony where there were hardly any other people to know. Then, suddenly, he was in a huge city, and it was as if a talent had been waiting to unfold. And was still unfolding.
He waved cheerfully at '—you ambush us too! my great-great-grandfather he at Koom Valley, he the approaching dwarfs.' 'Morning Mr Cumblethigh! 'Morning, Mr Strong-inthearm!'Then he turned and waved at the leading troll. There was a muffled 'pop' as a firework went off.' 'Morning, Mr Bauxite!'He cupped his hands.'If you could all just stop and listen to me—' he bellowed.The two marches did stop, with some hesitation and a general piling up of the people in the back. It was that or walk over Carrot.If Carrot did have a minor fault, it lay in not paying attention to small details around him when his mind was on other things. So the whispered conversation behind his back was currently escaping him.'—hah! It was too an ambush! And your mother was an ore—''Now then, gentlemen,' said Carrot, in a reasoned and amiable voice, 'I'm sure there's no need for this belligerent manner—'

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dawned on Verence that he was being addressed by fresh air. He looked down.
“I’m sorry,” he said, “you are—?”
“My card,” said Casanunda.
Verence read it. in the
woods. But the Entertainment—“
“There was elves in it,” said Tinker the tinker.
“That’s why it all got buggered up,” said Thatcher the
carter. “There was a lot of shouting, too.”
“There was someone with horns on,” said Carter, “and a
great big—“
“It was all,” said Jason, “a bit of a dream.”
“Hey, look over there, Carter,” said Weaver, winking at
the others, “there’s that monkey. You’ve got something to
ask it, ain’t you?”His eyebrows rose.“Ah,” he said. “Uh. Urn. Well, well, well. Number two, eh?”“I try harder,” said Casanunda.Verence looked around guiltily, and then bent down until his mouth was level with the dwarfs ear.“Could I have a word with you in a minute or two?”300The Lancre Morris Men got together again for the first time at the reception. They found it hard to talk to one another.Several of them jigged up and down absentmindedly as theytalked.“All right,” said Jason, “anyone remember? Reallyremember?”“I remember the start,” said Tailor the other weaver.“Definitely remember the start. And the dancing
Carter blinked. “Coo, yes,” he said.

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beg for mercy,” it said.
“Good,” said Magrat, and fired.
That left one elf rolling in circles on the flagstones, clutching at its knee.
Magrat stepped daintily over the body of another elf, vanished into the armory for a moment, and came back with an axe.
The elf stopped moving, and focused all its attention on her.
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“Now,” said Magrat, conversationally, “I’m not going to lie to you about your chances, because you haven’t got any. I’m going to ask you some questions. But first of all, I’m going to get your attention.”
The elf was expecting it, and managed to roll aside as the axe splintered the stones.
“Miss?” said Shawn “It is like being buried in the earth,” hissed the elf. “No eyes, no ears, no mouth!”
“Chain-mail, then,” said Magrat.weakly, as Magrat raised the axe again.“Yes?”“Mum says they don’t feel pain, miss.”“No? But they can certainly be put to inconvenience.”Magrat lowered the axe.“Of course, there’s armor,” she said. “We could put this one in a suit of armor. How about it?”“No!”The elf tried to pull away across the floor.“Why not?” said Magrat. “Better than axes, yes?”“No!”“Why not?”
“No!”
“Where is the king? Where is everyone?”

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says all the gentry—“
A tang on the wind, the sharp tin taste of snow ...
“—in Ankh-Morpork laughed at it for weeks and weeks,” he said. “It was on Broad Way for three months.”
“What’s armpit in a cow’s backside on a snowy night. Hah!”
“And there ain’t one of ‘em that—what’re you talking about? You ain’t got a cow.”
“No, but I know what it’s like.”
“They don’t know what it’s like to get one wellie sucked off in a farmyard full of gyppoe and that horrible moment where you waves the foot around knowin’ that wherever you puts it down it’s going to go through the crust.”
The stoneware jug glugged gently as it was passed from hand to unsteady hand.Broad Way?”“That’s where all the theaters are. The Dysk, Lord Wynkin’s Men, the Bearpit...”“They’d laugh at any damn thing down there,” said Weaver. “Anyway, they all think we’m all simpletons up here. They all think we say oo-aah and sings daft folk songs and has three brain cells huddlin’ together for warmth ‘cos of drinking scumble all the time.”“Yeah. Pass that jug.”“Swish city bastards.”“They don’t know what it’s like to be up to the

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Keeping busy up there, are you?” she said.
“One’s doing very well, thank you,” said Magrat, with what she hoped was queenly hauteur.
“Which one?” said Nanny.
“Which one what?”
“Which one’s doing very well?”
“Me!”
“You should have said,” said Nanny, her face poker straight. “So long as you’re keeping busy, that’s the impor-tant thing.”
“He knew we were coming back,” said Magrat firmly.
“He’d even got the invitations sorted out. Oh, by the way . ..
there’s one for.”
“Invitation to what?” said Magrat. She was getting fed
up with ones.
“Didn’t Verence tell one?” said Nanny. “It’s a special
play that’s been written special for you.” you—““I know, one got it this morning,” said Nanny. “Got all that fancy nibbling on the edges and gold and everything. Who’s Ruservup?”82LORDS ftffO ift0f£6Magrat had long ago got a handle on Nanny Ogg’sworld-view.“RSVP,” she said. “It means you ought to say if you’recoming.”“Oh, one’ll be along all right, catch one staying away,” said Nanny. “Has one’s Jason sent one his invite yet? Thought not. Not a skilled man with a pen, our Jason
“Oh, yes,” said Magrat. “The Entertainment.”

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Think logically, will you?" he said. "You're a phi­losopher, aren't you? Look at the crowd!"
Urn looked at the crowd.
"Well?"
"They don't like it,." -cloth on, out of respectability. You had to laugh. Otherwise you'd go mad.
"You know," he said, turning to Simony. "Now I know Vorbis is evil. He burned my city. Well, the Tsorteans do it sometimes, and we burn theirs. It's just war. It's all part of history. And he lies and cheats and claws power for himself, and lots of people do that, too. But do you know what's special? Do you know what it is?"
"Of course," said Simony. "It's what he's doing to-”
"It's what he's done to you."Simon turned. "Look, Brutha's going to die anyway. But this way it'll mean something. People don't understand, really under­stand, about the shape of the universe and all that stuff, but they'll remember what Vorbis did to a man. Right? We can make Brutha's death a symbol for peo­ple, don't you see?"Urn stared at the distant figure of Brutha. It was naked, except for a loin-cloth."A symbol?" he said. His throat was dry."It has to be."He remembered Didactylos saying the world was a funny place. And, he thought distantly, it really was. Here people were about to roast someone to death, but they'd left his loin

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"Well, well, well," said St. Ungulant. "We don't get very many visitors up here. Isn't that so, Angus?"
He addressed the air beside him.
Brutha was trying to keep his balance, because the cartwheel rocked dangerously every time he moved. They'd left Vorbis seated on holy contemplation and dirt. Many of them liked to make life even more uncomfortable for themselves by being walled up in cells or living, quite appropriately, at the top of a pole. The Omnian Church encouraged them, on the basis that it was best to get madmen as far away as possible where they couldn't cause any trouble and could be cared for by the community, insofar as the community consisted of lions and buzzards and dirt.
"I was thinking of adding another wheel," said St. Ungulant, "just over there. To the desert twenty feet below, hugging his knees and staring at nothing.The wheel had been nailed flat on top of a slim pole. It was just wide enough for one person to lie uncomfortably. But St. Ungulant looked designed to lie uncomfortably. He was so thin that even skeletons would say, "Isn't he thin?" He was wearing some sort of minimalist loin-cloth, insofar as it was possible to tell under the beard and hair.It had been quite hard to ignore St. Ungulant, who had been capering up and down at the top of his pole shouting "Coo-ee!" and "Over here!" There was a slightly smaller pole a few feet away, with an old-fashioned half-moon-cut­out-on-the-door privy on it. Just because you were an anchorite, St. Ungulant said, didn't mean you had to give up everything.Brutha had heard of anchorites, who were a kind of one­way prophet. They went out into the desert but did not come back, preferring a hermit's life of dirt and hardship and dirt and catch the morning sun, you know."