| "Teppic, heir to the throne of Djelibeybi, is learning to be an assassin whilst waiting to assume his rightful place. But his father dies and he is called to his duties - which are many and onerous, although real power lies with Dios the priest. The crisis comes when he intervenes in the execution of a handmaid. Meanwhile Dios has ordered the building of a pyramid as a monument to Teppic's father, a pyramid that is simply too damn big to be safe, either economically or magically." "Terry Pratchet" by Andrew M Butler |
| Targets |
| Egypt, driving tests, and Greek mythology. |
All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed. *** ...while assassination was probably worse than debate it was better than war, which some people tended to think of as the same thing only louder. *** The Assassins didn't have a very strenuous entrance examination; the school was easy to get into, easy to get out of (the trick was to get out upright). *** One of the two legends about the founding of Ankh-Morpork relates that the two orphaned brothers who built the city were in fact found and suckled by a hippopotamus ... Eight heraldic hippos line the bridge, facing out to sea. It is said that if danger ever threatens the city, they will run away. *** The other legend ... is that at an even earlier time a group of wise men survived a flood sent by the gods by building a huge boat, and on this boat they took two of every type of animal then existing on the Disc. After some weeks the combined manure was beginning to weigh the boat low in the water so -- the story runs -- they tipped it over the side, and called it Ankh-Morpork. *** ...by the time [the river] had passed through Ankh-Morpork ... it could only be called a liquid because it moved faster than the land around it. *** Teppic: "Hallo." *** Camels gallop by throwing their feet as far away from them as possible and then running to keep up. *** Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. *** Lack of fingers was another big spur to the development of camel intellect. Human mathematical development had always been held back by everyone's instinctive tendency, when faced with something really complex in the way of triform polynomials or parametric differentials, to count fingers. Camels started from the word go by counting numbers. *** As far as camels were concerned, the way to mighty intellectual development was to have nothing much to do and nothing to do it with. *** Teppic: "You stay here. I'll whistle if it's safe to follow me." *** He pushed the food around on his plate. Some of it pushed back. *** The trouble with life was that you didn't get a chance to practise before doing it for real. *** Khuft: "I was being persecuted for my beliefs." *** |
My name is Radostina Georgieva, "Roddy".I live in California.
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