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A review by qudsiramiz
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
5.0
"No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?
"But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions."
"As I recall, they used to sing it after battles," he said. "I've seen old men cry when they sing it," he added.
"Why? It sounds cheerful."
They were remembering who they were not singing it with..."
"Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it."
"Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason."
"Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces."
"Y’know ,’ he said, ‘it’s very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is."
"He'd been a successful soldier, as these things went; he'd generally been on the winning side, and had killed more of the enemy by good if dull tactics than his own men by bad but exciting ones."
"Mums are mums, lance-constable. They don't like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on."
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?
"But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions."
"As I recall, they used to sing it after battles," he said. "I've seen old men cry when they sing it," he added.
"Why? It sounds cheerful."
They were remembering who they were not singing it with..."
"Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it."
"Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason."
"Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces."
"Y’know ,’ he said, ‘it’s very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is."
"He'd been a successful soldier, as these things went; he'd generally been on the winning side, and had killed more of the enemy by good if dull tactics than his own men by bad but exciting ones."
"Mums are mums, lance-constable. They don't like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on."