Back to Blog
Terry pratchett on going postal7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() So far the work had taken him five weeks, and reduced the spoon to something like a nail file. To the world in general, and particularly on that bit of it known as the death warrant, he was Albert Spangler.Īnd he took a more positive approach to the situation and had concentrated his mind on the prospect of not being hanged in the morning, and most particularly on the prospect of removing all the crumbling mortar from around a stone in his cell wall with a spoon. The man going to be hanged had been named Moist von Lipwig by doting if unwise parents, but he was not going to embarrass the name, in so far as that was still possible, by being hung under it. They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man’s mind wonderfully unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that it is in a body that, in the morning, is going to be hanged. … and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork’s ailing postal service back on its feet. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |