Jack Vettriano Back Where You Belong

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dressing room was next to the privies and half full of beer barrels. Glod leaned on the door.
'I don't need the money,' he said. 'Just let me get out of here with my life, that's all I ask.'
'Oo ownt ave oo orry‑' Cliff began.
'You're trying to speak with your mouth shut, Cliff,' said Buddy.
'I said, you don't have to worry, you've got der wrong sort of teeth,' said the troll.
There was a knock on the door. Cliff slammed his hand back over his mouth. But the knock turned out to belong to Asphalt, who was "S funny thing,' said the little troll, 'suddenly everyone's playing music with rocks in it. Mr Dibbler's signed up another band for the concert, too. To kind of warm it up.'
"S called Insanity,' said Asphalt.
'Where are they?' said Cliff.
'Well, put it like this . . . you know how your dressing room is carrying a tray.There were three types of beer. There were even smoked rat sandwiches with the crusts and tails cut off. And there was a bowl of finest anthracite coke with ash on it.'Crunch it up good,' moaned Glod, as Cliff took his bowl. 'It may be the last chance you get–’'Maybe no‑one'll turn up and we can go home?' said Cliff.Buddy ran his fingers over the strings. The others stopped eating as the chords filled up the room.'Magic,' said Cliff, shaking his head.'Don't you boys worry,' said Asphalt. 'If there are any problems, it's the other guys who'll get it in the teeth.'Buddy stopped playing.'What other guys?'

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Hall for archery practice and had accidentally shot the Bursar twice, thought the whole faculty was as crazy as loons, whatever a loon was. 'Not enough fresh air,' he'd say. 'Too much sittin' around indoors. Rots the brain.' More often he'd say, 'Duck!'busy somewhere up in the roof.
Ridcully put down his fork.
'All right, who's doing it?' he said. 'Own up, that man.'
'Doing what, Archchancellor?' said the Senior Wrangler.
'Somone's tappin' his foot.'
The wizards looked along the table. The Dean was staring happily None of them, apart from Ridcully and the Librarian, were early risers. Breakfast, if it happened at all, happened around mid­morning. Wizards lined the buffet, lifting the big silver lids of the tureens and wincing at every clang. Ridcully liked big greasy breakfasts, especially if they included those slightly translucent sausages with the green flecks that you can only hope is a herb of some sort. Since it was the Archchancellor's prerogative to choose the menu, many of the more squeamish wizards had stopped eating breakfast altogether, and got through the day just on lunch, tea, dinner and supper and the occasional snack. So there weren't too many in the Great Hall this morning. Besides, it was a bit draughty. Workmen were

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pushed into the river as well.
Binky cantered easily over the rooftops. Susan could hear the sounds of the streets, even individual voices, but there was also theat school, under the name of Bogey and Rice. It was yellow. There were soggy raisins and peas in it.
Binky whinnied, and stamped a hoof.
A hatch in the door flew open. Susan got a brief impression of a face against the fiery atmosphere of the kitchen.
'Ooorrh, nooorrrh! Binkorrr!'
The hatch slammed shut again. great roar of the city, like some kind of insect hive. Upper windows drifted by, each one a glow of candlelight.The horse dropped through the smoky air and landed neatly and at the trot in an alley which was otherwise empty except for a closed door and a sign with a torch over it.Susan read:CURRY GARDENSKitchren Entlance ‑ Keep Out. Ris Means You.Binky seemed to be waiting for something. Susan had expected a more exotic destination.She knew about curry. They had curry

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were plenty of schools in the world, but they were all run either by the various churches or by the Guilds. Miss Butts objected to churches on logical grounds and deplored the fact that the only Guilds that considered girls worth educating were the Thieves and the Seamstresses. But it was a big and dangerous world out there, and a gel could do worse than face as wisdom is concerned, on a par with going alligator‑hunting in a cardboard boat during the sinking season.
For example, when she lectured to the school, pointed chin trembling, on the perils to be found outside in the town, three hundred healthy enquiring minds decided that 1) they should be sampled at the earliest opportunity, and logical thought wondered 2) exactly how Miss Butt knew about them. And it with a sound knowledge of geometry and astronomy under her bodice. For Miss Butts sincerely believed that there were no basic differences between boys and gels.At least, none worth talking about.None that Miss Butts would talk about, anyway.And therefore she believed in encouraging logi­cal thought and a healthy enquiring mind among the nascent young women in her care, a course of action which is, as far

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Coalface blinked.
'I'll join.'
'Swear him in, acting-constable.'
'Permission to enrol another dwarf, sir? To maintain parity?'
'Go ahead, Acting-Constable Cuddy.'
Carrot removed his helmet and wiped his forehead.
'I think that's about it, then,' he said.
The crowd stared at him.
He smiled brightly.
'No-one has to stay here unless they want to,' he said.
'I never done nuffin.'
'Yes . . . The crowd dispersed, or at least spread out a bit. Trolls, dwarfs and humans alike, an Ankh-Morpork citizen is never keen on moving on if there's some street theatre left.
Acting-Constable Detritus, his chest so swollen with pride and pomposity that his knuckles barely touched the ground, reviewed his troops.but . . . look,' said Stronginthearm. 'If he didn't kill old Hammerhock, who did?''I never done nuffin.''Our inquiries are proceeding.''You don't know!''But I'm finding out.''Oh, yes? And when, pray, will you know?''Tomorrow.'The dwarf hesitated.'All right, then,' he said, with extreme reluctance. 'Tomorrow. But it had better be tomorrow.''All right,' said Carrot.
'You listen up, you horrible trolls!'

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trail led eventually into a narrower tunnel, barely wide enough for the troll to stand upright. Finally they could go no further. A stone had dropped out of the roof and rubble and mud had percolated through, blocking the tunnel. But that didn't matter because they'd found what they were looking for, even though they hadn't been looking for it.
'Oh dear,' said Detritus.built on is Ankh-Morpork; it has been constructed, burned down, silted up, and rebuilt so many times that its foundations are old cellars, buried ro'Very definitely,' said Cuddy. He looked around vaguely.'You know,' he said, 'I reckon these tunnels are usually full of water. They're well below the normal river level.'He looked back to the pathetic discovery.'There's going to be a lot of trouble about this,' he said. 'It's his badge,' said Carrot. 'Good grief. He's holding it so tight it's cut right into his hand.' Technically Ankh-Morpork is built on loam, but what it is mainly ads and the fossil bones and middens of earlier cities.

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get back to the Yard.'
They proceeded to the Brass Bridge, quite slowly, because Carrot cheerfully acknowledged everyone they met. Hard-edged ruffians, whose normal response to a remark from a Watchman would be genteelly paraphrased by a string of symbols generally found on the top row of a typewriter's keyboard, would actually smile awkwardly and mumble something harmless in response to his hearty, 'Good evening, Masher! Mind how you go!'
Vimes stopped halfway across the bridge to light his cigar, striking a match on one of the ornamental hippos. Then he looked down into the turbid waters.
'Carrot?'
'Yes, captain?'
'Do you think there's such a thing as a criminal mind?'
Carrot almost people. That was something else.
The point was. . . well, he didn't like dwarfs and trolls. But he didn't like anyone very much. The point was that he moved in their company every day, and he had a right to dislike them. The point was that no fat idiot had the right to say things like that.audibly tried to work this out.'What . . . you mean like . . . Mr Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, sir?''He's not a criminal.''You have eaten one of his pies, sir?''I mean . . . yes . . . but . . . he's just geographically divergent in the financial hemisphere.''Sir?''I mean he just disagrees with other people about the position of things. Like money. He thinks it should all be in his pocket. No, I meant—' Vimes closed his eyes, and thought about cigar smoke and flowing drink and laconic voices. There were people who'd steal money from people. Fair enough. That was just theft. But there were people who, with one easy word, would steal the humanity from
He stared at the water. One of the piles of the bridge was right below

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Whereas in a few days he , with his new watch. To show everyone the ropes, he said; to tidy up a few loose ends, haha. See you youngsters don't get into trouble, haha. A month later he was bringing the coal in and sweeping the floor and running errands and helping people write reports. He was still there five years later. He was still there six years later, when one of the Watch got in early and found him lying on the floor . . .
And it emerged that no-one, no-one, knew where he lived, or even if there was a Mrs Kepple. They had a whip-round to bury him, Vimes remembered. There were just guards at the funeral . . .
Come to think of it, there were always just guards at a guard's funeral.would, as Sergeant Colon had said, be on the gravy boat. Nothing to do all day but eat his meals and ride around on a big horse shouting orders at people.At times like this the image of old Sergeant Kepple floated across his memory. He'd been head of the Watch when Vimes was a recruit. And, soon afterwards, he retired. They'd all clubbed together and bought him a cheap watch, one of those that'd keep going for a few years until the demon inside it evaporated.Bloody stupid idea, Vimes thought moodily, staring at the wall. Bloke leaves work, hands in his badge and hourglass and bell, and what'd we get him? A watch.But he'd still come in to work the next day

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Them elves turned the whole kitchen upside down,” she said. “It’s going to take me days to get it straight. Anyway, everyone knows raw vegetables are bad for you, and I can’t be having with them eggy pies.”
Magrat looked beseechingly at Nanny Ogg; Granny Weatherwax had wandered off into the gardens, where she was getting a tendency to stick her nose in flowers right out of her system.
“Nothin’ to do Mrs. Scorbic began.
There was a click. She looked down the length of a crossbow and met Magrat’s steady gaze.
“Go ahead,” said the Queen of Lancre softly, “bake my quiche.”
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Verence sat in his nightshirt with his head in his hands. He
could remember hardly anything about the night, except a
feeling of coldness. And no one seemed very inclined to tell
him.with me,” said Nanny. “It’s not my kitchen, dear.”“No, it’s mine. I’ve been cook here for years,” said Mrs. Scorbic, “and I knows how things should be done, and I’m not going to be ordered around in my own kitchen by some chit of a girl.”Magrat sagged. Nanny tapped her on the shoulder.“You might need this at this point,” she said, and handed Magrat the winged helmet.“The king’s been very happy with—“

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over its arms—“
Magrat picked up the axe.
“Oh, no,” said Shawn. “Miss!”
“You will never get him back,” said the elf. “She has him.”
“We shall see,” said Magrat. “All right, Shawn. What shall we do with it?”
In the end they dragged it into a storeroom next to the
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dungeon and manacled it to the bars of the window. It was still whimpering at the touch of the iron as Magrat slammed the door.
Shawn was trying to the pit. What day is it?”
“Tuesday.”
“And you clean it out on ... ?”
“Wednesdays. Only I missed last Wednesday because I
had—“
“Then we probably don’t need to worry about it. Are there anymore around?”keep at a respectful distance. It was the way Magrat kept smiling all the time.“Now let’s have a look at that arm of yours,” she said.“I’m all right,” said Shawn, “but they stabbed Diamanda in the kitchen.”“Was it her I heard screaming?”“Uh. Partly. Uh.” Shawn stared down in fascination at the dead elves as Magrat stepped over them.“You killed them,” he said.“Did I do it wrong?”“Um. No,” said Shawn cautiously. “No, you did it ... quite well, really.”“And there’s one in the pit,” said Magrat. “You know ...

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whole family, including the goat, got under the table.
It wasn’t that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of inva-sive presence.
There had been plenty of singers whose high notes could smash a glass, but Nanny’s high C could clean it.
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“—to laugh at us not being any good at being no good at acting.”
“I don’t see what’s funny about a bunch of rude artisans trying to do a play anyway,” said Weaver.Morris Men sat glumly on the turf, passing an earthenware jug between them. It had not been a good rehearsal.“Don’t work, does it?” said Thatcher.“’S’not funny, that I do know,” said Weaver. “Can’t see the king killing himself laughing at us playing a bunch of mechanical artisans not being very good at doin’ a play.” “You’re just no good at it,” said Jason.“We’re sposed to be no good at it,” said Weaver.“Yeah, but you’re no good at acting like someone who’sho good at acting,” said Tinker. “I don’t know how, but youain’t. You can’t expect all the fine lords and ladies—“

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,” said Magrat, coldly. “Can one have a word with you, Na—Mrs. Ogg? Outside?”
Right you are, your queen,” said Nanny.
In the alley outside Magrat spun around with her mouth open.
“You—“
Nanny held up her hand.
“I know what you’re going to say,” she said. “But there wasn’t any danger to the little mite.”
“But you—“
“Me?” said Nanny. “I hardly did anything. They didn’t know he was going to run into the circle, did they? They both /reacted just like they normally would, didn’t they? Fair’s fair.”
“Well, in a“How did Verence know when we were coming back?”
It seemed to Magrat that Nanny thought for just a few seconds too long.
“Couldn’t say,” she said at last. “Kings are a bit magi-cal, mind. They can cure dandruff and that. Probably he woke up one morning and his royal prerogative gave him a tickle.”
The trouble with Nanny Ogg was that she always looked as if she was lying. Nanny way, but—““No one cheated,” said Nanny81Terry PratchettMargrat sagged into silence. Nanny patted her on the shoulder.“So you won’t be telling anyone you saw me wave the bag of sweets at him, will you?” she said.“No, Nanny.”“There’s a good going-to-be-queen.”“Nanny?”“Yes, dear?”Magrat took a deep breath.

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boats grounded in the shallows, and the troops leapt into shoulder-high surf.
No one was quite sure who was leading the fleet. Most of the countries along the coast hated one another, not in any personal sense, but not to exist.
General Argavisti of Ephebe considered that he was in charge, because although he didn't have the most ships he was avenging the attack on Ephebe. But Imperiator Borvorius of Tsort knew that he was in charge, because there were more Tsortean ships than any others. And Admiral Rham-ap-Efan of Djelibeybi knew that he was in charge, because he was the kind of person who always thought he was in charge of anything. The only captain who did not, in fact, think that he was commanding the fleet was Fasta Benj, a fisherman from a very small nation of marsh-dwelling nomads simply on a kind of historical basis. On the other hand, how much leadership was necessary? Everyone knew where Omnia was. None of the countries in the fleet hated the others worse than they did Omnia. Now it was necessary for it . . .

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growing and dripping for thousands of years.
"How?" said sound was the occasional plink of the water.
It dripped into a- shallow pool in front of what looked like an altar. From the pool it had worn a groove in the slabs of the floor all the way to a round pit, which appeared to be bottomless. There were a few statues, all of them toppled; they were heavy-proportioned, lacking any kind of detail, each one a child's clay model chiseled in granite. The distant walls had once been covered with some kind of bas-relief, but it had crumbled away except Om."Water seeps down after the rains," said Brutha. "It lodges in the rocks. Don't gods know these things?""We don't need to." Om looked around. "Let's go. I hate this place.""It's just an old temple. There's nothing here.""That's what I mean."Sand and rubble half-filled it. Light lanced in through the broken roof high above, on to the slope that they had climbed down. Brutha wondered how many of the wind­carved rocks in the desert had once been buildings. This one must have been huge, perhaps a mighty tower. And then the desert had come.There were no whispering voices here. Even the small gods kept away from abandoned temples, fo the same reason that people kept away from graveyards. The only

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find a lettuce-growing community and hang on. Thunder gods come and go, but it's you they turn to every time when there's a bad attack of Lettuce Fly. You've got to . . . uh . . . hand it to Petulia. She spotted a gap in the market "mother naked" and possibly also "dripping wet" and would be one hundred percent accurate, too. Although there was the beard. It was a beard you could camp out in.
The man thudded down the street without any apparent self­consciousness and stopped outside a potter's shop. The potter didn't seem concerned at being addressed by a little wet naked man; in fact, none of the people in the street had given him a second glance.and filled it.""There's a God of Lettuce?""Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything . . ."Om stopped himself and waited to see if Brutha had noticed. But Brutha seemed to have something else on his mind."That's not right. Not treating people like that. Ow."He'd walked into the back of a subdeacon. The party had halted, partly because the Ephebian escort had stopped too, but mainly because a man was running down the street.He was quite old, and in many respects resembled a frog that had been dried out for quite some time. Something about him generally made people think of the word "spry," but, at the moment, they would be much more likely to think of the words

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Hawks to peck your liver!"
A hand reached in again and took the carrots.
"Afflict you with a thousand cuts!"
A hand reached in and took the Great God Om.
"The When they were out in the courtyard Brutha leaned against the wall and breathed out.
"Your eyeballs to-!" the tortoise began.
"One more word," said Brutha, "and it's back in the basket."
The tortoise fell silent.
"As it is, I shall probably get into trouble for missing Comparative Religion with Brother Whelk," said cannibal fungi of-!""Shut up!" hissed Brutha, shoving the tortoise under his robe.He sidled toward the door, unnoticed in the general culinary chaos.One of the cooks looked at him and raised an eyebrow."Just got to take this back," Brutha burbled, bringing out the tortoise and waving it helpfully. "Deacon's orders."The cook scowled, and then shrugged. Novices were regarded by one and all as the lowest form of life, but orders from the hierarchy were to be obeyed without question, unless the questioner wanted to find himself faced with more important questions like whether or not it is possible to go to heaven after being roasted alive.

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This was because Gritoller had swallowed the jewels for safe keeping.
[8] The Ankh-Morpork Merchants' Guild publication Wellcome to Ankh-Morporke, Citie of One Thousand Surprises [10] The overwhelming majority of citizens being defined in this case as everyone not currently hanging upside down over a scorpion pit.
[11] Wizards' tastes in the matter of puns are about the same as their taste in glittery objects.
[12] Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure in any case. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.describes the area of Old Morpork known as The Shades as 'a folklorique network of old alleys and picturesque streets, wherre exitment and romans lurkes arounde everry corner and much may be heard the traditinal street cries of old time also the laughing visages of the denuizens as they goe about their business private.' In other words, you have been warned.[9] The study of genetics on the Disc had failed at an early stage, when wizards tried the experimental crossing of such well known subjects as fruit flies and sweet peas. Unfortunately they didn't quite grasp the fundamentals, and the resultant offspring - a sort of green bean thing that buzzed -led a short sad life before being eaten by a passing spider.

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things were ... different.
For paddled slowly up one of the reed-lined drainage ditches. A little way ahead of it a moving wave of small alligators, rats and snapping turtles was pouring out of the water and scrambling frantically up the bank, propelled by some vague but absolutely accurate animal instinct.
The Luggage's lid was set in an expression of grim determination. It didn't want much example, a large part of the soak had turned into an impenetrable forest of giant yellow mushrooms. No-one knew what effect this had on its inhabitants, although possibly they hadn't noticed.The temple of Offler the Crocodile God, patron deity of the city, was now a rather ugly sugary thing constructed in five dimensions. But this was no problem because it was being eaten by a herd of giant ants.On the other hand, not many people were left to appreciate this statement against uncontrolled civic alteration, because most of them were running for their lives. They fled across the fertile fields in a steady stream. Some had taken to boats, but this method of escape had ceased when most of the harbour area turned into a swamp in which, for no obvious reason, a couple of small pink elephants were building a nest.Down below the panic on the roads the Luggage

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was said that everything in Ankh-Morpork was for sale except for the beer and the women, both of which one merely hired. anti-noise. Silence isn't the opposite of sound, it is merely its absence. But this was the sound that lies on the far side of silence, anti-noise, its shadowy decibels throttling the market cries like a fall of velvet.
The crowds stared around wildly, mouthing like goldfish and with about as much effect. All heads turned towards the gates.
Something else was flowing out besides that cacophony of hush. The stalls nearest the empty gate­way began to grind across the cobbles, shedding mer­chandise. Their owners And most of the merchandise was available in Sator market, which over the years had grown, stall by stall, until the newcomers were up against the ancient stones of the University itself; in fact they made a handy display area for bolts of cloth and racks of charms.No-one noticed the gates swing back. But a silence rolled out of the University, spreading out across the noisy, crowded square like the first fresh wavelets of the tide trickling over a brackish swamp. In fact it wasn't true silence at all, but a great roar of

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'Why can't he have it?'
Spelter's mouth dropped open. This was too much, even for him.
Carding smiled at him amiably.
'But theof speaking.'
'In a manner of speaking?'
Carding got up and gathered his skirts around him. 'I think,' he said, 'that you have a great deal to learn. By the way, where is that hat?'
'I don't know,' said Spelter, who was still quite shaken.
'Somewhere in, um, Virrid's apartments, I suppose.' hat-‘ 'It's just a symbol,' said Carding. 'It's nothing special. If he wants it, he can have it. It's a small enough thing. Just a symbol, nothing more. A figurehat.''Figurehat?''Worn by a figurehead.''But the gods choose the Archchancellor!'Carding raised an eyebrow. 'Do they?' he said, and coughed.'Well, yes, I suppose they do. In a manner