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Nevertheless, the wizards had made a few important improvements. Carding's robe, for example, had become a silk and lace confection of overpoweringly expensive tastelessness, and gave him the appearance of a big red jelly draped with antimacassars.
'It suits It made Spelter strangely uneasy. He felt out of place, as though he was wearing new clothes that itched. Of course, he was wearing new clothes and they did itch, but that wasn't the problem. The new world was all very nice, it was exactly how it should be, and yet, and yet - had he wanted to change, he thought, or had he only wanted things rearranged more suitably?
'I said, don't you think it was made for me?' said Carding.me, don't you think?' said Carding. He adjusted the hat brim, giving it an inappropriately rakish air.Spelter said nothing. He was looking out of the window.There had been a few improvements all right. It had been a busy day.The old stone walls had vanished. There were some rather nice railings now. Beyond them, the city fairly sparkled, a poem in white marble and red tiles. The river Ankh was no longer the silt-laden sewer he'd grown up knowing, but a glittering glassclear ribbon in which - a nice touch - fat carp mouthed and swam in water pure as snowmelt.[12]From the air Ankh-Morpork must have been blinding. It gleamed. The detritus of millennia had been swept away.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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