In the seventh part of\u00c2\u00a0Feet of Clay<\/i>, someone confesses, and it only makes everything MORE confusing. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
AHHHHH HOW IS THE PLOT IN THIS BOOK ACCELERATING SO QUICKLY??? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not used to this! In the span of just a little over twenty pages, Pratchett reveals a whole lot about what might be going on here. LET US SIFT THROUGH IT.<\/p>\n
Holy Days<\/b><\/p>\n
So, even though I know Dorfl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s confession is bogus, I still suspect that the opening scene here IS meant to be a possible explanation for the golem gatherings at the opening of the book. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no way this is a coincidence:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Seems to me there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a\u00c2\u00a0lot<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0of holy days lately,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sock said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S TOTALLY AN ANSWER, ISN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T IT?<\/p>\n
Anonymity<\/b><\/p>\n
Okay, so there\u00c2\u00a0is<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0a faceless cabal or collective that wants Vetinari out of the city. But, in a bizarre twist, they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to\u00c2\u00a0kill<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Vetinari, but rather, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re using poison to just keep him \u00e2\u20ac\u0153merely\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 unwell.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d What the hell, WHY? Well, because they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust him as a dead man, which made me laugh. What I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand is what these people have planned\u00c2\u00a0next<\/i>. They want to incapacitate the Patrician, but is there a next step?<\/p>\n
The Patrician<\/b><\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Patrician is both the nicest he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ever been and totally himself at the same time. I was struck by how kind and appreciative he seemed upon waking up and realizing the lengths that Vimes went to protect him. Non-human guards, drafting the gargoyles to become the perfect beings to watch the entrances, using Doughnut Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Vimes genuinely tried to think of\u00c2\u00a0every<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0possible variable.<\/p>\n
And then, just like that, right after I made a point in the video to mention how nice Lord Vetinari was being, he dismisses Vimes. No hesitation, not a care in the world. Ah, well, Vetinari must be feeling better since he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back to his old self again.<\/p>\n
Vimes<\/b><\/p>\n
LET US ALL ACKNOWLEDGE HOW KIND IT WAS OF VIMES TO GIVE THAT CONSTABLE HIS EXPENSIVE BOOTS IN EXCHANGE FOR SOME CHEAP ONES. Yes, he had a personal reason for doing so. He wanted to feel the city again, and as fate has it, it ends up being the most opportune time (or inopportune, depending on how you look at it) for him to do so. While patrolling the city, he comes across the weirdest thing: a golem hiding on the Brass Bridge, trying to blend in with the hippo statues there. I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T GET WHY. Did Vimes just coincidentally walk onto the bridge while the golem was heading somewhere? Actually, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pretty good theory. But was this a holy night for\u00c2\u00a0all<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0the golems? WHY?<\/p>\n
And of course, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard not to compare this golem\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s behavior to Dorfl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, and it makes no sense to me. Why is Dorfl giving themselves up, but this other golem is \u00c2\u00a0determined to run away or\u00c2\u00a0harm<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Vimes?<\/p>\n
Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just talk about Dorfl, because WHAT THE HELL.<\/p>\n
Dorfl<\/b><\/p>\n
This section\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest scene comes when Dorfl arrives at Pseudopolis Yard to turn himself in for the murders of Tubelcek and Hopkinson. Okay, I thought, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not out of the realm of possibility. But why would Dorfl turn themselves in so quickly after the murders? Why was Dorfl carrying a broken matchstick?<\/p>\n
But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a more important question that needs to be answered:\u00c2\u00a0Why is Dorfl lying about the murders<\/i>? Carrot, in a brilliant move, gets Dorfl to confess to murdering Mr. Hopkinson with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153an iron bar,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d cleverly tricking him into a lie. So, Dorfl is a golem, which means they must obey the words in their head. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad this theme has popped up again, since the power of words is a\u00c2\u00a0huge<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0thing in the\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0books. When Carrot makes reference to those words in Dorfl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head, Dorfl lunges at Carrot, so clearly, they felt defensive over Carrot figuring out the truth.<\/p>\n
Thus, we have a probable explanation for the weird slip of paper in Tubelcek\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mouth: Dorfl found the priest dead and tried to save him in the only way he knew. He tried to put words in Tubelcek\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head, not understanding that only golems work that way. So why did Dorfl want to save Father Tubelcek? How did they know the priest? And who\u00c2\u00a0actually<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0killed Tubelcek and Hopkinson???<\/p>\n
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