![]() You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place.' 'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is. The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year' Sunday Express This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.'Funny, wise and mock heroic. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.īut the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
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