{"id":18429,"date":"2021-10-30T19:18:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T23:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=18429"},"modified":"2021-12-29T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T01:01:22","slug":"going-postal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/18429","title":{"rendered":"Going Postal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going Postal<\/a><\/em> (2004) Terry Pratchett<\/a> (Discworld)<\/p>\n

\"Going<\/a>Moist von Lipwig should not have come to Ankh Morpork.<\/p>\n

Apart from all those repossessions, bankruptcies, and sudden insolvencies, what had he actually done that was bad, as such? He\u2019d only been moving numbers around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After being sentenced to death, he didn’t quite expect the afterlife to be what it was.<\/p>\n

Moist stared. He\u2019d felt the snap of the rope, the choke of the noose! He\u2019d seen the blackness welling up! He\u2019d died<\/em>! <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m offering you a job, Mr. Lipwig. Alfred Spangler is buried, but Mr. Lipwig has a future<\/em>. It may, of course, be a very short one, if he is stupid. I am offering you a job, Mr. Lipwig. Work, for wages. I realize the concept may be unfamiliar.\u201d <\/p>\n

Only as a form of hell<\/em>, Moist thought. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe job is that of postmaster general of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office.\u201d Moist continued to stare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I never fails to amaze me that so many things in the Discworld books end up being appropriate for RIGHT THIS MINUTE no matter how long ago they were written.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s this do?\u201d said Moist hurriedly, picking up a pot of greenish goo. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat, sir? Wart cure. Wonderful stuff. Very natural, not like the stuff a doctor\u2019d give you.\u201d <\/p>\n

Moist sniffed at the pot. \u201cWhat\u2019s it made of?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cArsenic, sir,\u201d said Groat calmly. <\/p>\n

\u201cArsenic?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cVery natural, sir,\u201d said Groat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I mean.<\/p>\n

You really intend to continue with this folly, in the face of everything? The Post Office? When we all know that it was a lumbering, smug, overstaffed, overweight monster of a place? It barely earned its keep! It was the very essence and exemplar of public enterprise!\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt never made much of a profit, it is true, but in the business areas of this city there were seven deliveries a day,\u201d said Vetinari.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also:<\/p>\n

When Reacher Gilt talks about freedom he means his, not anyone else\u2019s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And also:<\/p>\n

And this was known as that greatest of treasures, which is Hope. It was a good way of getting poorer really very quickly, and staying poor. It could be you. But it wouldn\u2019t be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because…<\/p>\n

There had to be a way of making it better and sleeker and cheaper\u2026 or maybe it was something so big that no one could run it at a profit. Maybe it was like the Post Office, maybe the profit turned up spread around the whole of society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He just always seems to be speaking to TODAY and RIGHT NOW.<\/p>\n

Publisher: HarperCollins
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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