Famous for its wit and wisdom, the series offers countless quotable quotes on a variety of subjects. This is the 36th Discworld novel, the 5th in the Industrial Revolution series, and the 2nd to feature Moist von Lipwig. The late Sir Joshua Lavish and his slightly more recently late wife, Topsy, have left the controlling shares of the bank to a certain Mr. Assigned Mr. And, when life imitates art or art imitates life, as the case may bethings start to heat up. Throw in a past thought forgotten and a more ancient past forgotten by all but one leching ghost of a necromancer, and things are about to get a great deal more interesting for Mr. Moist von Lipwig.
Terry Pratchett
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When parties are interested in unprepossessing land, it might just pay for smaller parties to buy up any neighboring plots, just in case the party of the first part had heard something, possibly at a party. Some of the things you could learn up a drainpipe at night were surprising. But small sounds were nearby and suggested such things as stealth betrayed, and were, therefore, pressing and personal. It was only an hour before dawn. He might as well arise formally and enhance a reputation for keenness. It had come to this. What harm can it do to find out? No preconceived ideas. Bent steepled his hands in front of his face and turned his eyes upward, as though praying.
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Moist von Lipwig is bored with his job as the Postmaster General of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office, which is running smoothly without any problems, so the Patrician tries to convince him to take over the Royal Bank and Royal Mint. Moist, content with his new lifestyle, refuses. She also makes sure that the city’s Assassins’ Guild will fulfill a contract on Moist if anything happens to the dog or if he does not do as her last will commands. Faced with no alternative, Moist tries to take over the bank and in doing so finds out that people do not trust banks much, that the production of money runs slowly and at a loss, and that people now use stamps which Moist introduced in Going Postal as currency rather than coins. His ambitious changes include making money that is not backed by gold but by the city itself. Unfortunately, neither the chief cashier Mr Bent, rumoured to be a vampire but actually something much worse nor the Lavish family are too happy with him and try to dispose of him. Cosmo Lavish tries to go one step further — he is, with the help of his servant, Heretofore , who steals Vetinari’s personal effects for a large fee , attempting to replace Vetinari by taking on his identity — with little success. However all the while, the reappearance of a character from von Lipwig’s past adds more pressure to his unfortunate scenario. She manages to bring them to Ankh-Morpork, and to everyone’s surprise the «four golden golems» turn out to be «four thousand golems» due to a translation error and so the city is at risk of being at war with other cities who might find an army of 4, golems threatening. Moist discovers the magic words that control the golems and orders them to bury themselves outside the city, except for a few to power Clacks Towers and golem horses for the mail coaches. This is a reference to the Terracotta Army unearthed near Xi’an, China. Moist realises that these extremely valuable golems are a much better foundation for the new currency than gold and thus introduces the golem-based currency. Eventually, an anonymous clacks message goes out to the leaders of other cities, containing the command that the golems respond to, thus making them unsuitable for using in warfare.
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He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine. Love ’em or hate ’em, you can’t hit them with a shovel! But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to. He’d never sat down to think about it.
But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren’t you worth more than that? And I’m not sure about the turnip. It had come to. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like «core values» at him with impunity.
Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.
It’s our job,» said Moist. Only we’ve got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads is a bit tired we ends up earning the money faster’n we can make it, which leads to a bit of what I can only call a conundrum—» «You mean that if you do overtime you have to do more overtime to pay for it? They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don’t let that worry you, Mr Lipspick. Just because I’m employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn’t mean I’m some sort of madman, ha ha ha!
Ha hah hah! Hubert coughed. Sorry about that, it’s the air down here,’ he mumbled. The painted grin leers out at us from the darkness, mocking our insane belief in order, logic, status, the reality of reality.
The mask knows that we are born on the banana skin that leads only to the open manhole cover of doom, and all we can hope for are the cheers of the crowd. But make the change happen fast enough and you go from one type of normal to. We don’t athk quethtionth. Why not? I didn’t athk. Welcome. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
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