| "Captain Vimes is preparing to his marriage to Lady Sybill Ramkin, and anticipates a retirement from twenty-five years on the City Watch. It is probably just as well that he is retiring, since Lord Vetinary has adopted a positive discrimination policy and has admitted Detritus (a troll) and Cuddy (a dwarf) to the guards. The speciesism of the city may just be combated if the Watch can avoid pulling itself apart under the weight of accumulated prejudice. Fortunately, there is a case to focus the senses: something has been stolen from the Assassin's Guild, and a number of bodies, including a dwarf and a clown, have been found in suspicious circumstances (which is to say, dead). Vimes is sure that there is a connection, if only he can stay single and sober enough to work it out." "Terry Pratchet" by Andrew M Butler |
| Targets |
| Police procedural, racism. |
He [Edward d'Eath] could think in italics. Such people needed watching. *** "Try it one more time, Lance-Constable Detritus," he said."The trick is, you stops your hand just above your ear. Now, just get up off the floor and try salutin' one more time." *** The reason the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. *** Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. *** If the Creator had said,"Let there be light" in Ankh-Morpork, he'd have got no further because of all the people saying "What colour?" *** The maze was so small that people got lost looking for it. *** "You know," said Detritus, after a while,"that look like that dwarf who make weapons in Rime Street." *** The river Ankh is probably the only river in the universe on which the investigators can chalk the outline of the corpse. *** "Haven't you ever seen his portrait of the Mona Ogg? ... The teeth followed you around the room. Amazing. In fact some people say they followed them out of the room and all the way down the street." *** Cuddy had only been a guard for a few days, but already he had absorbed one important and basic fact: it is almost impossible for anyone to be in a street without breaking the law. *** "He only drinks when he gets depressed," said Carrot. *** You couldn't be a real copper in Ankh-Morpork and stay sane. You had to care. And caring in Ankh-Morpork was like opening a tin of meat in the middle of a piranha school. *** Sergeant Colon was lost in admiration. He'd seen people bluff on a bad hand, but he'd never seen anyone bluff with no cards. *** Angua felt she was beginning to understand the way Carrot asked questions. He asked them by not asking them. He simply told people what he thought or suspected, and they found themselves filling in the details in an attempt to keep up. *** "That damn troll just happened to save my life today," shouted Cuddy. *** "Dogs don't talk," said Gaspode, hurriedly. "Listen, I should know. I am one." *** The Librarian liked being best man. You were allowed to kiss bridesmaids, and they weren't allowed to run away. *** Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things -- unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. *** From the back, Vetinari looked like a carnivorous flamingo. *** Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. *** |
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