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"You continue to chase down the relevant balls—you take out the trash, load and unload the dishwasher, enjoy surges of booze-induced well-being at parties, even occasionally discover a new piece of music—but at some level you know there’s no coming back, that you’re going through the motions, actively waiting for it all to be over with."

Unemployed for nearly a year, 41 years old, trapped in my home village.

Such a great opening to this one, the pursuit of Carcer across the rooftops in the storm.

The monk stuff about quantum is sort of interesting but also a little lugubrious.

If I could get sent back in time to coach my younger self, where would I go back to and what would I teach then? 🤔

Oh wow I can just add notes like this can I? Blimey.

Most memorable line so far:

"On a clear day, from the right vantage point on the Ramtops, a watcher could see a very long way across the plains... There was usually a day’s traveling between each convoy. They turned the landscape into an unrolled time machine. On a clear day, you could see last Tuesday."

Re-reading this one. The last time I read it, bizarrely, I was doing jury service and waiting to be called up (or not). There's stuff I understand so far this time around that I wouldn't have last time (nothing huge, just Colon and Nobby being in charage of traffic, etc.). Good to get Vimes out of Ankh Morpork, at risk of rewriting Guards! Guards! again.