‘Down there,’ he said, ‘are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.’ #Books #TerryPratchett
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This and Small Gods are probably my favourite of the lot. I loved revisiting the Guards characters in subsequent books, but there was something really earnest and affecting about this first one. Grim re-reading now, though.
@bursaar 'Something really earnest and affecting' - that's spot on. As is, alas, 'grim re-reading now' - it is too spot on at this moment in time.