In the eleventh part of The Truth<\/i>, Pin and Tulip try to track down Vetinari\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dog while William is briefly satisfied. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Biers<\/b><\/p>\n
I like the idea of this bar a lot, especially since it confirms that the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s undead\/monster population has banded together to protect one another. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what this is: a form of safety. A SAFE SPACE, IF YOU WILL. These people can be themselves without fear of persecution from one another because, on a basic level, they understand how hard it is to be non-human. I imagine that for most of these people, the time they spend in Biers is the most stress-free moment of their day. I imagine they share stories of being mistreated, or swap tales of beating the odds. I NOW DESPERATELY WANT A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES SET IN BIERS.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the point of all this is to say that I deeply understood why, of all places, Biers was the one location that actually<\/i> intimidated Mr. Pin. Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip are used to getting their way with brute force and slimy behavior, but that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really hold up in that bar. In fact, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m certain all the people there have seen much worse than these two, you know??? How many people have found their way into Biers, only to ask for a werewolf or a bogeyman for some obscene or offensive job? Yeah, I really liked this, not the least because we finally got folks standing up to Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a joy!<\/p>\n
The Times<\/b><\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also quite satisfying to see The Times<\/i> grow as a paper, both literally and metaphorically. Obviously, it is physically<\/i> bigger than what it started as, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also fun to note all the ways in which William, Sacharissa, and the other employees are improving themselves and their skills as they rush to compete with The Inquirer<\/i>. So I understood that brief moment of pride that William had before plunging right into the next edition. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s accomplished a lot<\/i> in a very short run of time. There wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even be<\/i> an Inquirer<\/i> if William hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tapped into this very raw potentiality in Ankh-Morpork. Though I must admit that even that<\/i> is complicated.<\/p>\n
Olds<\/b><\/p>\n
See, there was a clear desire for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153news\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as William saw it, which would provide a means to notify citizens of the goings-on in Ankh-Morpork. But Pratchett invents a brilliant term here to describe William\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s observations of why the stories in The Inquirer<\/i> are so attention-grabbing:<\/p>\n Olds, thought Wiliam, forensically dissecting a sultana. His Lordship was right. Not news but olds<\/i>, telling people that what they think they already know is true\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Look, confirmation bias is a hell of a thing. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve fallen for it. My country is currently trapped within a cycle of it on a national level, with news organizations praying on the fears of people in order to get them to support monstrous policies. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a power in validation, and many \u00e2\u20ac\u0153news\u00e2\u20ac\u009d companies know that. It is so affirming<\/i> to know that the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153facts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d support something you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always known, right? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s obviously a simplistic view of this, but I understood Pratchett\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s point. People rarely want to be uncomfortable. They rarely want to be challenged. They want to feel like they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always been smart and knowledgable and informed.<\/p>\n That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always more entertaining, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it?<\/p>\n The New Firm<\/b><\/p>\n I KNOW SOMEONE IN THE NEW FIRM, DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T I? Is it William\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father<\/i>??? Oh god, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite recall who first mentioned that adage about a lie and boots and I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T WANT TO GO LOOK IT UP BECAUSE IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122LL BE MUCH MORE FUN TO HAVE A REALIZATION ABOUT IT. Still: these scenes with the unnamed members of the New Firm are helpful to me because I can get a sense of why<\/i> they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re having Vetinari taken out of power, despite that many of them got to where they are because<\/i> of him. In the end, though, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all about power. They can sweep away any gratitude they may feel because there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s power to be taken by putting someone controllable into the Patrician\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Palace.<\/p>\n http:\/\/youtu.be\/Mc7UPUNEXmM?a<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – Please visit my new site for all announcements<\/a>. If you’d rather not have to rely on checking a website regularly, sign up for my newsletter instead<\/a>! This will cover all news for Mark Reads, Mark Watches, and my fiction releases. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the eleventh part of The Truth, Pin and Tulip try to track down Vetinari\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dog while William is briefly satisfied. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[463,248,529],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discworld","tag-mark-reads-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett","tag-the-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}