6
He lived on his nerves.
7
The study of invisible writings was a new discipline made available by the discovery of the bi-directional nature of Library-Space. The thaumic mathematics are complex, but boil down to the fact that all books, everywhere, affect all other books. This is obvious: books inspire other books written in the future, and cite books written in the past. But the General Theory[8] of L-Space suggests that, in that case, the contents of books as 'yet unwritten can be deduced from books now in existence.
8
There's a Special Theory as well, but no one bothers with it much because it's self-evidently a load of marsh gas.
9
It was largely dark.
10
Three times outright, once after eleven hours extra time, and twice when the other finalists ran away.
11
Who was also general poacher, cesspit cleaner, and approximate carpenter[12].
12
With a couple of nails it'll stay up all right.
13
The thing about iron is that you generally don't have to think fast in dealing with it.
14
Well, it's like this . . . The Carter parents were a quiet and respectable Lancre family who got into a bit of a mix-up when it came to naming their children. First, they had four daughters, who were christened Hope, Chastity, Prudence, and Charity, because naming girls after virtues is an ancient and unremarkable tradition. Then their first son was born and out of some misplaced idea about how this naming business was done he was called Anger Carter, followed later by Jealousy Carter, Bestiality Carter, and Covetousness Carter. Life being what it is. Hope turned out to be a depressive. Chastity was enjoying life as a lady of negotiable affection in Ankh-Morpork, Prudence had thirteen children, and Charity expected to get a dollar's change out of seventy-five pence — whereas the boys had grown into amiable, well-tempered men, and Bestiality Carter was, for example, very kind to animals.
15
Ponder was one hundred percent wrong about this.
16
Verence and Magrat had a lot in common, really.
Вы читаете Lords And Ladies
