"What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" “No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case.Why is Night Watch one of my all time's favourites? Rather than arguing for lines and lines, I'll juste quote the novel: Sam Vimes has to take a sergeant's identity and becomes the one who taught him everything, by teaching young Sam Vimes, well, everything.īut Sam (older Sam) knows that the moment in time to which he has been sent back to is just a few days before the Glorious 25th of May (3), a revolution that won't change Ankh-Morpork but that will change his life.
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