Wednesday, April 29, 2009

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it work?'
'Oh, yes,' said Leonard. He sighed. 'If you can find one man with the strength of ten men who can turn the handle at about one thousand revolutions a minute.'
The Patrician relaxed,. 'And dwarfs. Clever men and dwarfs who tinker with things.'
'I am so very sorry.'
'They never think.'
'Indeed.'
Lord Vetinari leaned back and stared at the skylight.
'They do things like open the Three Jolly Luck Take-Away Fish Bar in a way which only then drew gentle attention to the foregoing moment of tension.'Now there is in this city,' he said, 'a man with a gonne. He has used it successfully once, and almost succeeded a second time. Could anyone have invented the gonne?''No,' said Leonard. 'I am a genius.' He said it quite simply. It was a statement of fact.'Understood. But once a gonne has been invented, Leonard, how much of a genius need someone be to make the second one?''The rifling technique requires considerable finesse, and the cocking mechanism that slides the bullette assembly is finely balanced, and of course the end of the barrel must be very . . .' Leonard saw the Patrician's expression, and shrugged. 'He must be a clever man,' he said.'This city is full of clever men,' said the Patrician

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