By Terry Pratchett
Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the newest novel from Terry Pratchett. supplying the trademark perception and humor readers internationally have come to anticipate from “the merely funniest English author considering the fact that Wodehouse” (Washington publish e-book World), Unseen Academicals specializes in the wizards at Ankh-Morpork’s Unseen collage, who're reknowned for plenty of things—sagacity, magic, and their love of teatime—as they try to triumph over athletics.
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Why is Tom wasting his days in a car- 38 THEN WE CAME TO THE END peted office trying to hide the coffee stain on his khakis? How is he any better than Pilot Bob? Unfortunately, I don’t think I am any better. I’m not studying the external world. What I’m doing is trying to generate a buck for a client so as to generate a quarter for us so that I can generate a nickel for me and have a penny left over after Barbara gets what the court demands. For that reason I love my job and never want to lose it, so I hope no one reading this finds me smug or ungrateful.
No, I came up with it,” said Karen. Lynn’s face, which had aged into the early years of her forties with little modification of her cool detached beauty, was architecturally designed for such outrageous confessions. Her high cheekbones kept her eyes buttressed from the collapse of a disbelieving brow, her nearly crow’s-feet-free eyes never gave way to an offputting squint, and her mouth, flanked on both sides by a single parenthesis of a gently etched laugh line, remained in perfect equipoise when presented with revelations that would have provoked in lesser professionals fallen jaws of slackened disgust or a steady stream of rebuke.
She ain’t nothin’ but a bureaucrat. ’ ‘Ten-fifteen in the morning,’ she says. ‘You took lunch at, what? ’ Then she points at the buckshelves and she says, ‘And I guess all these bucks just appeared when you came back from lunch, too, huh? ’ And I don’t say anything, and she says, ‘And what about the nice chair you’re sitting on? ’ And I don’t say anything, and she says, ‘I’ll be back after I’ve had a chance to crosscheck your serial numbers. I would suggest that if those are Tom’s buckshelves you have them back in his office pronto.