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small, weary, moth‑eaten dog thought hard about the difference between looking and acting like a wonder dog and merely being one.
It said ‘Bugger.’

Victor remembered being frightened of tigers when he was young. In vain did people point out that the nearest tiger was three thousand miles away. He’d say, ‘Is there any sea between where they live and here?’ and ‘A bit. It’s very clammy down here.’
‘Is it your teeth I can hear chattering?’
‘Who else’s? No,’ he added hurriedly, ‘don’t even think about it.’
‘You know,’ she said, after a while, ‘I don’t remember anything about tying you up. I’m people would say, ‘Well, no, but‑‘ and he’d say, ‘Then it’s just a matter of distance.’Darkness was the same thing. All dreadful dark places were connected by the nature of darkness itself. Darkness was everywhere, all the time, just waiting for the lights to go out. Just like the Dungeon Dimensions, really. Just waiting for reality to snap.He held on tight to Ginger.‘You needn’t,’ she said. ‘I’ve got a grip on myself now.’‘Oh, good,’ he said weakly.‘The trouble is, so have you.’He relaxed.‘Are you cold?’ she said.

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You’ve got to promise me,’ she said, ‘that if anything happens, you won’t try to take advantage of the situation.’
Victor sighed. ‘I promise.’
‘It’s just that I’ve got a career to think about, you see.’
‘Yes, I see.’
Victor sat by the lamp and took the book out of his pocket.
‘I’m not He heard her yawn.
‘Did I finish telling you about the dream?’ she said.
‘I don’t think so,’ said Victor, in what he hoped was a politely discouraging voice.
‘It always starts off with this mountain‑‘
‘Look, you really shouldn’t be talking‑‘
‘‑and there are stars around it, you know, in the sky, but trying to be ungrateful or anything like that,’ Ginger went on.Victor ruffled through the yellowing pages, looking for the place he’d got to. Scores of people had spent their lives by Holy Wood Hill, apparently just to keep a fire alight and chant three times a day. Why?‘What are you reading?’ said Ginger, after a while.‘It’s an old book I found,’ said Victor, shortly. ‘It’s about Holy Wood.’‘Oh.’‘I should get some sleep if I were you,’ he said, twisting so that he could make out the crabby script in the lamp light.

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troll like Rock or Morry, who had a way with words. Basically, he’d never needed much of what you might call a vocabulary. He kicked despondently at the sand. What chance did he have with a smart lady like her?
There the troll suggested, i.e., a candle-lit human for two, although of course that sort of thing wasn’t done any more now, at least if there was any chance of being caught.
She shouldn’t narrow her eyes and catch him a ding across the ear that made his eyeballs rattle.
‘You stupid troll!’ she shouted, as Detritus staggered around in a circle. ‘What you do that for? You think I unsophisticated girl just off mountain? Why you not do it right?’was a thump of heavy feet, and the door opened. The object of desire stepped out into the night and took a deep breath, which had the same effect on Detritus as an ice cube down the neck. He gave his rock a panicky look. It didn’t seem anything like big enough now, when you saw the size of her. But maybe it was what you did with it that mattered. Well, this was it. They said you never forgot your first time . . . He wound up his arm with the rock in it and hit her squarely between the eyes. That’s when it all started to go wrong. Tradition said that the girl, when she was able to focus again, and if the rock was of an acceptable standard, should immediately be amenable to whatever

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twig fire burned on the slope of Holy Wood Hill. Victor had lit it because - well, because it was reassuring. Because it was the sort of thing humans did.
He found it necessary to remember he was human, and probably not crazy.
It wasn’t that he’d been talking to a dog. People often talked to dogs. The same applied to the cat. And maybe even me, being chased by this,’ it indicated the cat looming over it, ‘around the kitchen. Scrabble, scrabble, squeak, panic. Then the rabbit. It was the conversation with the mouse and the duck that might be considered odd. ‘You think we wanted to talk?’ snapped the rabbit. ‘One minute I’m just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute whazaam, I’m thinking. That’s a major drawback if you’re looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like "What’s it all about, when you get right down to it?" ‘ ‘Yeah, but at least you eats grass,’ Gaspode pointed out. ‘At least grass don’t talk back at you. The last thing you needs when you’re hungry is a bloody ethical conundrum on your plate.’ ‘You think you’ve got problems,’ said the cat, apparently reading his mind. ‘I’m reduched to eating fish. You put a paw on your dinner, it shoutsh "Help!", you got a major predicament.’ There was silence. They looked at Victor. So did the mouse. And the duck. The duck was looking particularly belligerent. It had probably heard about orange sauce. ‘Yeah. Take us,’ said the mouse. ‘There’s

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sat back. Silverfish flashed him a look of bright incomprehension.
‘Just run that past me one more time, will you?’ he said.
‘They’ll want to do exactly the same thing!’ said Dibbler.
‘I know,’ said‘You really think that will work?’ said Silverfish.
‘Yes,’ said Dibbler flatly. ‘You listen to the street traders any morning. They don’t shout, "Nearly-fresh oranges, only slightly squashy, reasonable value", do they? No, they shout, "Git chore orinjes, they’re luvverly". Good business sense.’ Victor. ‘They’ll want us to hold up cards with things on like "Harga’s Isn’t the Best Place in Town, Actually, Ours Is".’ ‘Something like that, something like that,’ snapped Dibbler, glaring at him. ‘Maybe we can work on the words, but something like that.’ ‘But, but,’ Silverfish fought to keep ahead of the conversation, ‘Harga won’t like it, will he? If he pays us money to say his place is best, and then we take money from other people to say that their place is best, then he’s bound to–’ ‘Pay us more money,’ said Dibbler, ‘to say it again, only in larger letters.’ They stared at him.

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haven’t contributed very much to this project, but I did come up with this, er, this stuff.’
He pulled a very large bag from the pocket of his robe and dropped it on the table. It fell over, and a few fluffy, white mis-and cautiously selected a fluffy morsel. He chewed it thoughtfully.
‘Don’t really know why I did it,’ said Peavie, blushing. ‘Just sort of had an idea that it was right.’
Silverfish went on chewing.
‘Tastes like cardboard,’ he said, after a while.
‘Sorry,’ said Peavie, trying to scoop the rest of the heap back into shapen balls rolled out. The alchemists stared at it. ‘What is it?’ said Lully. ‘Well,’ said Peavie, uncomfortably, ‘what you do is, you take some corn, and you put it in, say, a Number 3 crucible, with some cooking oil, you see, and then you put a plate or something on top of it, and when you heat it up it goes bang, I mean, not seriously bang, and when it’s stopped banging you take the plate off and it’s metamorphosed into these, er, things . . . ‘ He looked at their uncomprehending faces. ‘You can eat it,’ he mumbled apologetically. ‘If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.’ Silverfish reached out a chemical-stained hand

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binocular vision. This close, its body was slightly transparent, as though someone had sketched in all the lines and got bored before it was time to do the shading. It trod on a small tomb, crushing it to powder.
A hand condiment set of their choice. It exploded like an unwound dandelion, silent as starlight, searing as a supernova.
Only after it had been bathing the necropolis in its impossible brilliance for several seconds did the sound come, and it was sound that winds itself up through the bones, creeps into every cell of the body, and tries with some success to turn them inside out. It was too loud to be called noise. There is sound so loud that it prevents itself from being heard, and this was that kind of sound.like a cluster of canoes with claws on hovered over Teppic. The pyramid trembled and the stone under his feet felt warm, but it resolutely forbore from any signs of wanting to flare. The hand descended. Teppic sank on one knee and, out of desperation, raised the knife over his head in both hands. The light glinted for a moment off the tip of the blade and then the Great Pyramid flared. It did it in absolute silence to begin with, sending up a spire of eye-torturing flame that turned the whole kingdom into a criss-cross of black shadow and white light, a flame that might have turned any watchers not just into a pillar of salt but into a complete

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'Look at it, will you? You have to turn your head and sort of look out of the corner of your eye.' Teppic's dagger smacked into the crack, which was no more than a faint line on the rock.
'Well, it goes on a long way,' said Ptraci, staring along the burning pavement.
'All the way from the Second Cataract to the Delta,' said Teppic. 'Covering your eye with one hand helps. Please give itbeing turned inside out?' said Teppic.
'Yes,' said Ptraci coldly. 'Can I have my bangles, please?'
'What?'
'My bangles. You put them in your pocket. I want them, please.'
Teppic shrugged, and fished in his pouch. The bangles were mostly copper, with a few bits of chipped enamel. Here and there the craftsman had tried, without much success, to do something interesting a try. Please!' She put one hesitant hand over her eye and squinted obediently at the rock. Eventually she said. 'It's no good, I can't - seeee-' She stayed motionless for a moment and then flung herself sideways on to the rocks. Teppic stopped trying to hammer the knife into the crack and crawled over to her. 'I was right on the edge!' she wailed. 'You saw it?' he said hopefully. She nodded and, with great care, got to her feet and backed away. 'Did your eyes feel as though they were

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turned over, his head hitting the pillow with a thud.
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Yes, plumbing. And bloody doors. Teppic definitely wasn't used to having several attendants waiting on his will all the time, so and Scorned the Pillows of his Forebears.'
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But here, away from the great centres of population, where the Circle Sea meets the desert, there is a line of cold blue fireIn the cool of the river valley dawn the high priest Dios opened his eyes. He didn't sleep these days. He couldn't remember when he last slept. Sleep was too close to the other thing and, anyway, he didn't seem to need it. Just lying down was enough - at least, just lying down here. The fatigue poisons dwindled away, like everything else. For a while.
Long enough, anyway.. Flames as chilly as the slopes of Hell roar towards the sky. Ghostly light flickers across the desert. The pyramids in the ancient valley of the Djel are flaring their power into the night. The energy streaming up from their paracosmic peaks may, in chapters to come, illuminate many mysteries: why tortoises hate philosophy, why too much religion is bad for goats, and what it is that handmaidens actually do. It will certainly show what our ancestors would be thinking if they were alive today. People have often speculated about this. Would they approve of modern society, they ask, would they marvel at present-day achievements? And of course this misses a fundamental point. What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: 'Why is it so dark in here?'

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Daff said she saw them actors practisin' this morning,' said Nanny Ogg, who was carrying a bag'of walnuts and a leather gone.'
The Fool was waiting despondently inside the little wicket gate. His face brightened when he saw Magrat, and then froze in an expression of polite surprise when he saw the other two.
'There's not going to be any trouble, is there?' he said. 'I don't want there to be any trouble. Please.'
'I'm sure I don't know what you mean,' said Granny regally, sweeping past.bottle from which rose a rich, sharp smell. 'She said it was all shouting and stabbing and then wondering who done it and long bits with people muttering to themselves in loud voices.''Actors,' said Granny, witheringly. 'As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.''They shout so loud, too,' said Nanny. 'You can hardly hear yourself talk.' She was also carrying, deep in her apron pocket, a lump of haunted castle rock. The king was getting in free.Granny nodded. But, she thought, it was going to be worth it. She hadn't got the faintest idea what Tomjon had in mind, but her inbuilt sense of drama assured her that the boy would be bound to do something important. She wondered if he would leap off the stage and stab the duke to death, and realised that she was hoping like hell that he would.'All hail wossname,' she said under her breath, 'who shall be king here, after.''Let's get a move on,' said Nanny. 'All the sherry'll be

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tavern,' said Tomjon. 'I've heard about them. There's to see a troll tavern.'
They're for trolls only, boy. Molten lava to drink and rock music and cheese 'n' chutney flavoured pebbles.'
'What approved. For some reason his fellow expatriates, who at home did nothing more objectionable than mine a bit of iron ore and hunt small creatures, felt impelled, once in the big city, to wear chain mail underwear, go around with axes in their belts, and call themselves names like Timkin Rumbleguts. And no-one could beat a city dwarf when it came to quaffing. Sometimes they missed their mouths altogether.
'Anyway,' he added, 'you'd get thrown out for being too creative. The actual words are, "Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold".'
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happened to haunt the castle merely because it had been built on his burial mound. For no obvious reason a chariot with a screaming woman in it occasionally rumbled through the laundry room. As for the kitchen . . .
One day misty. Several noticed him, and there was a weird blarting of noises that sounded far-off, tinny and unpleasantly out of register. Through them all the cook and his assistants wandered quite unconcernedly, making vegetarian sausages.
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The witches looked around. Eventually Magrat risked, 'You mean in the pub?'
It was cold and draughty in the Great Hall of Lancre Castle, and the new chamberlain's bladder wasn't getting any younger. He stood and squirmed under the gaze of Lady Felmet.
'Oh, yes,' he said. 'We've got them all right. Lots.'
'And people don't do anything about them?' said the duchess.
The said the duchess sternly. 'And we don't propose to allow them here. You will furnish us with their addresses.'
'Addresses, ladyship?'
'Where they live. I trust your tax gatherers know where to find them?'chamberlain blinked. 'I'm sorry?' he said.'People tolerate them?''Oh, indeed,' said the chamberlain happily. 'It's considered good luck to have a witch living in your village. My word, yes.''Why?'The chamberlain hesitated. The last time he had resorted to a witch it had been because certain rectal problems had turned the privy into a daily torture chamber, and the jar of ointment she had prepared had turned the world into a nicer place.'They smooth out life's little humps and bumps,' he said.'Where I come from, we don't allow witches,'

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'Why didn't you say?'
PEOPLE USUALLY PREFER ME NOT TO.
Keeble scrabbled among his papers, giggling hysterically.
'You want to dothe heart of a yellow dwarf which went nova most satisfactorily. He stood in the saddle and whirled the blade around his head, laughing as the blue flame fanned across the sky leaving a trail of darkness and embers.
And didn't stop. Mort struggled as the sword cut through the horizon, grinding something else?' he said. Tooth fairy? Water sprite? Sandman?'DO NOT BE FOOLISH. I SIMPLY – FEEL I WANT A CHANGE.Keeble's frantic rustling at last turned up the paper he'd been searching for. He gave a maniacal laugh and thrust it into Death's hands.Death read it.THIS is A JOB? PEOPLE ARE PAID TO DO THIS?'Yes, yes, go and see him, you're just the right type. Only don't tell him I sent you.' Binky moved at a hard gallop across the night, the Disc unrolling far below his hooves. Now Mort found that the sword could reach out further than he had thought, it could reach the stars themselves, and he swung it across the deeps of space and into

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muffled. Binky's breath made fountains of cloud in the still air. He whinnied gently, almost apologetically, and pawed at the ground.
Mort slid out of the saddle and crept up to the interface. It crackled softly. Weird shapes coruscated across it, flowing andthe transparent interface, and certainly no owl reappeared on the other side. Just as he was puzzling over this there was another soundless splash a few feet away and the bird burst into view again, totally unconcerned, and skimmed away across the fields.
Mort pulled himself together, and stepped through the barrier which was no barrier at all. It tingled.
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sensible about this.'
Mort stared at his knees. Then he stood up.
'I think I'd said the princess. 'I've got a foodtaster.'
'You should get a bodyguard as well,' said Mort. 'I must go. I have important things to do. Farewell,' he added, in what he hoped was the right tone of injured pride.
'Shall I see you again?' said Keli. 'There's lots I want to —'better be going,' he said coldly.He folded up the scythe and stuck it into its sheath behind the saddle. Then he looked at the window.'You came through that,' said Keli, helpfully. 'Look, when I said —''Does it open?''No. There's a balcony along the passage. But people will see you!'Mort ignored her, pulled open the door and led Binky out into the corridor. Keli ran after them. A maid stopped, curtsied, and frowned slightly as her brain wisely dismissed the sight of a very large horse walking along the carpet.The balcony overlooked one of the inner courtyards. Mort glanced over the parapet, and then mounted.'Watch out for the duke,' he said. 'He's behind all this.''My father always warned me about him,'

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'Doesn't on the other side stiffened when he heard those sombre, leaden tones and swung around. He blanched and muttered a few protective incantations after Death turned, very slowly for maximum effect, and treated him to a grin.
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Yes, m'm," said the maid beside her.
"What about up several social classes.
"Pray hexcuse us," she said. "You find us hall at sixes and sevens, it being washing day and heverything. His this a courtesy call or may I make so bold as to ask -"she lowered her voice -" his there a message from the Hother Sade?"
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into the bird's head to calm its fears and dispel its panic. It allowed her to pick it up and sat awkwardly on her wrist, its talons gripping tight enough to draw blood.
Granny took the staff and made her way upstairs, to where Esk lay on the narrow bed in the low bedroom with its enough about wizardry to be certain that it would be a high one. But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?
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a terrible thought occurred to him.
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'What?' said Rincewind, eyes fixed on the sky.
'The picture box,' said Twoflower. 'I must get a picture of this!'
'Can't you Great A'Tuin was very pleased and contented, and feelings like that in a brain the size of several large cities are bound to radiate out. In fact most people on the Disc were currently in a state of mind normally achievable only or about thirty seconds of illegal herbage.
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pick a bit up, here and there.' The shopkeeper blew his nose. 'Sometimes I land on a world where they understand these things.' He turned a pair of small, sad eyes on Twoflower. 'You've got a kind face, sir. I don't mind telling you.'
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Why don't you stop, then?'
'Ah, that's it, you see, sir—I can't. I'm under a curse, I am. A terrible thing.' He blew his nose again.
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'After making the sucking noise?'
'Yes. I probably grinned, too.' run a shop?''Forever, sir, forever. And never closing! For hundreds of years! There was this sorcerer, you see. I did a terrible thing.''In a shop?' said Twoflower.'Oh, yes. I can't remember what it was he wanted, but when he asked for it I – I gave one of those sucking-in noises, you know, like whistling only backwards?' He demonstrated.Twoflower looked sombre, but he was at heart a kind man and always ready to forgive.'I see,' he said slowly. 'Even so —''That's not all!'
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tinted spectacles, Rincewind knew – he looked at it through a rose-tinted brain, too, and heard it through rose-tinted ears.
The drawing near, alerted by Trymon.
But a small and solitary figure was also watching from the cover of a handy fallen stone. One of the Disc's greatest legends watched the events in the stone circle with considerable interest.
He saw the druids circle and chant, saw the chief druid I raise his sickle . . .'
Heard the voice.
'I say! Excuse me! Can I have a word?'chant was rising inexorably to a crescendo. The head druid was testing the edge of his sickle and all eyes were turned to the finger of stone on the snowy hills beyond the circle where the moon was due to make a guest appearance.'It's no use you—'But Rincewind was talking to himself. However, the chilly landscape outside the circle was not entirely devoid of life. For one thing a party of wizards was even now

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The speed of light through a magical aura such as the one that surrounded the Disc was quite slow, being not much faster than the speed of sound in less highly-tuned universes. But it was still the fastest thing around with the exception, in moments like this, of Rincewind's mind.
In an instant "?Hor yu latruin nor u?" he said.
Rincewind smiled and nodded and pushed Twoflower in his general direction. With an inward sigh of relief he saw the tourist pay sudden attention to a big brass telescope that lay on the table.
"! Sooten u!" commanded the seated chelonaut. Rincewind nodded and smiled and took one of the big copper helmets from the rack and brought it down on the man's head he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language.Rincewind's elbow shot back, knocking the breath from Twoflower's body. When the little man looked up in pain and astonishment Rincewind caught his eye and pulled an imaginary tongue out of his mouth and cut it with an imaginary pair of scissors.The second chelonaut- for such was the profession of the men whose fate it would shortly be to voyage to Great A'Tuin - looked up from the chart table and watched this in puzzlement. His big heroic brow wrinkled with the effort of speech.

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trying to stand up, on the side of his head. The man slumped.
The dragon vanished. The ball of fire that was billowing towards Hrun faded until, when it reached him, it was no more thandragonlord over his shoulder and set off at a trot back to the arena. Halfway there he found Lio!rt sprawled on the ground, one leg bent awkwardly. He stooped and, with a grunt, hoisted the man on to his vacant shoulder.Kill them," she said.
"I kill in my own time," he said. "In any case, killing unconscious people isn't right."
"I can't think of a more opportune time," said the Loremaster. Liessa snorted.
"Then I shall banish them," she said. "Once they are beyond the reach of the Wyrmberg's magic then they'll have no Power. They'll be simply brigands. Will that satisfy you?"
"Yes."
Liessa and the Loremaster were waiting on a raised dais at one end of the meadow. The dragonwoman had quite recovered her composure now, and looked levelly at Hrun as he threw the two men down on the steps before her. The people around her were standing in deferential poses, like a court. a puff of warm air. Then there was no sound but the crackle of burning bushes.Hrun slung the unconscious