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SND kindly comes and rescues my washing from the machine, also tells me she's engaged, which is cool. But I have to wonder about myself because SND seems too nice to be true. Maybe working in a dysfunctional place for 35 years has skewed my beliefs about the human race. Like, people really can be that nice, it's just that most of them aren't, myself included. Vice-Fearless Leader once said to me that you only see 10% of most people so let the tatemae stand and don't worry about the rest. But of course that's anathema to westerners and our insistence on 100% sincerity.

Finished Foxglove Summer and The Hanging Tree, am currently slowly working my way through Lies Sleeping. Helps to read these books one after the other, bang bang bang, and not with the long breaks of a first reading. I may then be able to appreciate the last two better but frankly am not looking forward to them.

Thus, and because it's Pratchett's 10 year jahrzeit, and because I couldn't get to sleep last night, am rereading Making Money. People who say Vetinari is grooming Moist to take over as patrician seem not to have registered that Moist is, fundamentally, a crook who needs thrills to thrive. A well-run city would be the death of him, but a city that functions well is exactly what Vetinari wants and has brought into being. The only solution I can see is for Vetinari to become a vampire, because no one else has the devotion to the city that he has.

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"The only solution I can see is for Vetinari to become a vampire, because no one else has the devotion to the city that he has."

Now that would be kind of delicious.

Forgot to add, Lies Sleeping is the last one I really enjoyed, and even that was pretty qualified. The last two were very ehhh. Some of the novellas were all right, especially the Abigail one.

Pretty much my feeling too. I kow authors should try new things but my reaction was kinda meh.

Of course the rumour is that he's aready one.