The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his. (SM)Ī drink from the Ankh would quite probably rob a man of his memory, or at least cause things to happen to him that he would in no account wish to recall. 'I bang them together again,' said Lias, one of nature's drummers. 'What do you do after you've banged them together?' Unfortunately, other people sought it too. People came to Ankh-Morpork to seek their fortune. 'But alcohol debilitated the body and is a poison to the soul.'

In her opinion, school kept trying to interfere with it. Underarm hair is an even more embarrassing problem when it keeps biting off the top of the deodorant bottle. The question seldom addressed is where Medusa has snakes. …she believed in encouraging logical thought and a healthy enquiring mind among the nascent young women in her care, a course of action which is, as far as wisdom is concerned, on a par with going alligator-hunting in a cardboard boat during the sinking season. Miss Butts sincerely believed that there were no basic differences between boys and gels. Miss Eulalie Butts and her colleague, Miss Delcross, had founded the college on the astonishing idea that, since gels had nothing much to do until someone married them, they might as well occupy themselves with learning things. It went with everything, sooner or later. That's big for a room, whereas infinity you can hardly see. which went on to infinity, or as near infinity as makes no difference. Words have always had the power to change the world. (SM)Īnd, if they're said with the right passion and the gods are feeling bored, sometimes the universe will reform itself around words like that. The old bards said they got better as they got older, although the old men tend to say this sort of thing regardless of daily experience. It’s more interesting, and doesn’t take so long.

In fact, whosoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It is said that whosoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. she was brilliant in the same way that a diamond is brilliant, all edges and chilliness. She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education. But, if it is true that the act of observing changes the thing which is observed, it’s even more true that it changes the observer.

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