In the sixteenth part of The Truth<\/i>, THIS IS ALL HAPPENING TOO FAST. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
WHAT THE FUCK, THIS ESCALATED, I WAS NOT READY.<\/p>\n
Angua<\/b><\/p>\n
You know, she and Carrot made a good point: Vimes can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t risk charging William with anything for what he did because it might expose Angua\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s identity. Part of me thinks that William knows this, too, and what he did was actually much more of a calculated act than I realized. Regardless, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now got the Watch off his back\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, I suspect the twist at the end of this will complicate matters.<\/p>\n
Trixiebell<\/b><\/p>\n
I REALLY HOPE THERE IS FANART OF THIS. This whole charade is 100% absurd at this point, but I love one ironic element of it: William is devoted to exposing the truth, of representing the world in an honest way. He sees himself as part of a crusade now, even if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lonely one at times. Yet he is constantly<\/i> deceived by Gaspode, and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153truth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of Deep Bone is always just a few feet from William.<\/p>\n
Look, I was very curious how this was going to unfold, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m happy to say that I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t disappointed at all. Trixiebell was a great disguise for Gaspode, but the actual<\/i> translation of that interview was a delight, too. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great achievement because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as if Wuffles reveals anything we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. Instead, Pratchett uses it to move William closer to the truth of what happened in the Oblong Office. He now knows that there were three<\/i> strangers in that room, and that one of them looked (but smelled\/tasted) different than Wuffles\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or Vetinari.<\/p>\n
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how<\/i> William is going to publish this, though. Will he take a page from The Inquirer <\/i>(heh) and just straight-up say<\/i> that he interviewed Wuffles??? If the public can believe half-truths and mistruths and lies, what if William tells an absurd truth?<\/p>\n
Mr. Slant<\/b><\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always a bit shocking when Pratchett ditches humor because even the majority of the action sequences or violent scenes are still funny. Yet I did not find one second<\/i> of the confrontation scene with Mr. Slant to be funny AT ALL. Tulip and Pin are agents of cruelty who are used to hurting others to get exactly what they want. They injure Mr. Slant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clerk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hand, then they threaten to murder Mr. Slant over a flawed payout for services rendered.<\/p>\n
Of course, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another angle to all of this: Otto did something<\/i> to Mr. Pin when he flashed him with that dark light, and I still haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite figured it all out. I think<\/i> there was a clue here, though:<\/p>\n He was also worried about the way Mr. Pin had acted with the \u00e2\u20ac\u201cing lawyer. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like him to point a weapon at someone and then not use it. The New Firm didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go round threatening people. They were<\/i> the threat. All that \u00e2\u20ac\u201cing stuff about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153letting you live for today\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that was amateur stuff.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I said, are we heading\u00e2\u20ac\u201c?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What do you think happens to people when they die, Tulip?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Couple this with Mr. Pin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intense reaction to the potato bit (I AM AT A LOSS, WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BOOK), and I wonder if Mr. Pin is being taunted by guilt<\/i>. He mentions hearing people behind him, seeing faces in the shadows, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s preoccupied with the afterlife and sparing others. Why the change? Why suddenly care whether or not you kill someone? The only theory I have thus far is that the people Mr. Pin has<\/i> killed (or has ordered killed by Mr. Tulip) are tormenting him. How that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible is lost on me, but IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S SOMETHING, OKAY?<\/p>\n The deWorde Residence<\/b><\/p>\n I had forgotten that William had said that Sacharissa could borrow one of his mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dresses, and y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL, I WAS NOT READY FOR ANY OF THIS. First of all: why is the deWorde home so dusty?<\/i> Why does it seem like no one has lived there in ages??? That doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make sense, though I admit that perhaps I just forgot some pivotal detail. Just\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 what the hell??? What does that mean???<\/p>\n This scene, however, provides absolute confirmation that Lorde deWorde is one of the people (if not the main<\/i> person) behind the plot to turn Ankh-Morpork into\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 what? A pure version of itself? Even that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t denote what kind<\/i> of purity that he wants. As long as it benefits himself and those like him, deWorde is willing to do anything to keep Ankh-Morpork from ever changing, and that includes CHAINING UP CHARLIE TO THE FLOOR IN THE CELLAR. It was just seconds after realizing who was being held there that I remembered that Mr. Tulip and Mr. Pin were heading there to kill Charlie. SO YEAH, I WASN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T READY. The whole thing was tense and scary, and I kept worry that Tulip was going to snap and just kill everyone<\/i>. Why not? He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been itching to, and his frustration with Mr. Pin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bizarre behavior was pushing him towards it anyway.<\/p>\n Look, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what Pin and Tulip are going to do with Rocky and Sacharissa, and my worry is that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re both so desperate to leave Ankh-Morpork that they may do something hasty and horrible in order to escape.<\/p>\n HELP.<\/p>\n http:\/\/youtu.be\/dVrGzRctAt0?a<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n -\u00c2\u00a0Please 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.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the sixteenth part of The Truth, THIS IS ALL HAPPENING TOO FAST. Intrigued? 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