Apr 28, 2009

George Frederick Watts The Recording Angel

Unknown Artist Venice Grand Canal
crimes, it was just that the crimes they committed tended to be so far above the normal level of criminality that they were beyond the turning it over and over in his fingers.
'The current ethnic problem.'
'Are we having one?'
'Well, yes . . . Look at Quarry Lane. There's fighting there every night!'
'And they have absolutely no concept of religion!'reach of men with bad boots and rusting mail. Owning a hundred slum properties wasn't a crime, although living in one was, almost; Being an Assassin – the Guild never actually said so, but an important qualification was being the son or daughter of a gentleman – wasn't a crime. If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.'And now everywhere you look it's uppity dwarfs and trolls and rude people,' said Lady Selachii. 'There's more dwarfs in Ankh-Morpork now than there are in any of their own cities, or whatever they call their holes.''What do you think, captain?' said the Duke of Eorle.'Hmm?' Captain Vimes picked up a grape and started

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