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Entering Discworld. Population: Terry Pratchett.

Imaginary Worlds

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The Importance of Good Boots

The house barely had running water where Terry grew up. A really good pair of leather boots cost $50 but an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of okay for a season or two and then leet like hell when a cardboard gave out, cost about $10. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought and War until the souls were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ancomod Park on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. The thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. And I imagine when Terry was down on one knee and the queen was tapping him on the shoulders with her sword, knighting him, surely,

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