You were right, all of you. So far I haven‘t read one of the good Pratchetts. But this one is hilarious.
Education had been easy. Learning had been harder.
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
She‘d become a governess.
[...]
She‘d sworn that if she ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she‘d beat herself to death with her own umbrella.
The Susan version of a famous story:
“...and then Jack chopped down the beanstalk, adding murder and ecological vandalism to the theft, enticement and trespass charges already mentioned, but he got away with it and lived happily ever after without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done. Which proves that you can be excused just about anything if you‘re a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions. [...]“
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