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<div>== Bloat? ==<br />
Are the mentions of the ex-American President and the used-flying-saucer dealer citations or references to one of TPs books? Yes, they may be funny, but they seem to be irrelevant and are distracting. At least, the annoying flying-saucer-part should be considerably shortened.--[[User:EinFritz|EinFritz]] ([[User talk:EinFritz|talk]]) 05:47, 21 October 2013 (GMT)<br />
:As non-native speaker, I've looked up the meaning of "presumptuous". Calling the attempt of a newbie to cut down on bloat and improve the readability of the wiki presumptuous is in my eyes disrespectful, especially after having called out for help for improvements. Even if the "flying saucer" part is a quote out of a bookof TP, there would have been a more polite way to justify the objection to my edit. --[[User:EinFritz|EinFritz]] ([[User talk:EinFritz|talk]]) 19:25, 21 October 2013 (GMT)</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Chrysoprase&diff=17896Chrysoprase2013-10-21T13:22:58Z<p>EinFritz: Mentioned in TT</p>
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|title= CHRYSOPRASE<br />
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|name= Chrysoprase <br />
|age= unknown<br />
|race= Troll<br />
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|occupation= 'Legitimate Businessman'<br />
|appearance= Less craggy than most trolls, quite well polished.<br />
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|residence= [[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
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|books= {{T!}}, {{WS}}, {{FOC}}, {{TLF}} <br />
|cameos= {{TT}}<br />
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Chrysoprase (also known as Krysoprase in ''[[Book:The Light Fantastic|The Light Fantastic]]'', and Chrystophrase in ''[[Book:Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'') is the ''de facto'' leader of the [[trolls]] disorganisation, the [[Breccia]]. Generally accompanied by several of his thugs (not henchmen, they're not smart enough to hench), Chrysoprase is a feared and well-known presence in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. <br />
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Recently, Chrysoprase has been moving out of the troll-drug trafficking trade (in {{FOC}}), and into "property and financial services" (in ''[[Book:Thud!|Thud!]]''), or so he claims. To his merit, he dislikes trolls fighting among themselves (he'd rather have them all working together and fighting dwarfs), and has great belief in showing respect (particularly to him). Disrespectful thugs rapidly become rockeries and jewellery. He also respects [[Commander Vimes]] for being unbribable and honest.<br />
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Chrysoprase also owns The [[Cavern Club]], a nightclub frequented by the cooler types of humans and the nastier types of trolls. He also wears suits, a rare idiosyncrasy for a troll. They fit badly, but that's what happens when trolls wear suits.<br />
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It has been rumored that the diamond jewelry that Chrysoprase wears is made from the teeth of other troll gangsters "who have come second in their business dealings with him" (see ''[[Book:The Discworld Companion|The Discworld Companion]]'').<br />
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The name Chrysoprase has been given in the fine tradition of naming trolls after minerals, rocks, gemstones, or other geological formations. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysoprase Chrysoprase] is an apple-green to dark green variety of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedony chalcedony] (a fibrous rock composed of quartz). It is one of the most prized varieties of quartz.<br />
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[[de:Chrysopras]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Book:The_Truth&diff=17895Book:The Truth2013-10-21T13:19:02Z<p>EinFritz: /* Cameos and Mentions */ Begholder and Chrysoprase are mentioned</p>
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
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|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
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==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
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William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
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==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
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Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
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Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
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In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
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While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
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De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
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==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
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The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
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*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
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The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
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==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
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===Minor Characters===<br />
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*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
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===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
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*Mr. Ronnie "Trust Me" Begholder, debtor of Chrysoprase (Mentioned)<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Catastrophe Carter]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Chrysoprase]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*Heidehollen, philosopher (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[Verence II]], King of [[Lancre]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
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==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Five-and-Seven Yard]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]] in [[Creek Alley]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Long Hogmeat]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**Temple of Offler (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
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*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
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*[[Mouldavia]] (Mentioned)<br />
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*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
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==Sentient Species==<br />
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*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Golems]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
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==Supernatural Entities==<br />
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*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
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==Creatures==<br />
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*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
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== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
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*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Eau-de-Nil]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Oil of Scallatine]]<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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[[de:Buch:Die volle Wahrheit]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Dwarfs&diff=17894Dwarfs2013-10-21T11:13:11Z<p>EinFritz: /* Traditional culture */ Traditional axe, as in TT; layout</p>
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'''Dwarfs''' love [[gold]], but love iron more, possibly because gold can only be made into jewellery, while iron can be used for making many types of useful tools and weapons. Regardless of this, dwarfs seem to always sing about gold when they sing at all , which they do a lot while drinking in [[Pubs|pubs]], because the word "gold" makes the chorus easier to sing. There are probably many variations; their vocabulary regarding minerals is extensive to the point they lack a generic word for simply "rock". [[Silver (metal)|Silver]] is also a valuable commodity in the Dwarfish economy:- as well as its uses in jewelry and trading, the metal has an extra significance in &Uuml;berwald where it almost has the status of a weapon of war (or at the least, the sort of pointed diplomacy that often takes the place of war).<br />
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As Terry Pratchett's books have become more and more elaborate in the recent years the description of the dwarf race has become more and more believable. In the early books (''[[Book:Guards! Guards!|Guards! Guards!]]'', ''[[Book:Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'') the dwarfs were little more than a caricature of the Disney dwarfs singing the Hi-Ho song. However, especially in the more recent ''[[Book:Thud!|Thud!]]'' the dwarf race has been described as an ancient race which is almost immobilised by the large amount of history and traditions. Many (but luckily not all) dwarfs have a problem with fitting into a modern world, where many of the old traditions have become obsolete or plain wrong. <br />
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==Traditional culture==<br />
Traditionally, dwarfs are miners in the mountains (nowadays there are also dwarf artificers, jewellers, [[Dwarf Bread|bakers]], [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watchmen]], etc. in the cities).<br />
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The [[Dwarfish phrases|dwarf language]] is rich and expressive and universally spoken by all dwarfs. It sounds like someone needs a cough drop after eating too much grit in the mine. Very few non-dwarfs speak it, still less with fluency, and these are generally those who have professional doings with the race, such as Watchmen and bullion dealers. Even these people, and dwarfs speaking Morporkian, must invert their thinking. To dwarfs, low is the human equivalent of high. Thus the Low King, and the confusion when you ask a dwarf if he wants to get in on the ground floor of your latest business venture.<br />
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One dwarfish word that is very badly translated when talking to humans is "''king''," which to the dwarfs means; "''senior engineer of the mine''," there is little connotation of royalty or god-given right to reign. The dwarf [[Low King]] is elected by the senior members of the more powerful mines, and acts as the final court of appeal in disputes. The Low King's seat is in [[Bonk]], [[&Uuml;berwald]], but it is rumored that dwarf mines are connected underground for miles and miles across the continent. <br />
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In the old days, &Uuml;berwald dwarfs were often dinner to [[vampires]] and [[werewolves]], just as humans were; also dwarfs warred against the [[trolls]]. This is where that silver stuff comes into it: for quite a long time in &Uuml;berwald, the [[Diet of Bugs|Agreement]] between Dwarfs and Werewolves was: "''You agree not to eat us, and we agree not to mine and refine any more of that precious metal that can so spoil a werewolf's digestion, especially for eg if forged into mail shirts and used to edge weapons''." <br />
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However, in the time of the events in {{TFE}}, this Agreement breaks down mainly due to the machinations of [[Wolfgang von &Uuml;berwald]], and silver mining resumes. A silver mailshirt which must be a long-treasured family heirloom travels to [[Ankh-Morpork]] with [[Cheery Littlebottom]], because her family have heard there are werewolves in Ankh, and they reason she is likely to need it more than they do. <br />
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Very likely due to the mine networks, dwarfs have come to be one of the three major political powers in &Uuml;berwald (see {{TFE}}). There is a rivalry between these &Uuml;berwaldian dwarves and those from the [[Copperhead]] region. Some &Uuml;berwaldean dwarfs also want to [[wikipedia:Excommunicate|excommunicate]] all city-dwelling dwarfs.<br />
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Traditionally, all dwarfs dress the same and act the same &ndash; quaff beer, sing about gold, wave a pickaxe and / or battleaxe (see below) at people when drunk. [[Samuel Vimes]] notes that, despite being generally sober and hardworking, dwarves - especially those in his city - with extra leisure time are generally much too rowdy and cantankerous for his comfort.<br />
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A traditional dwarf axe is on one side a pickaxe, to extract interesting minerals. The other side is a war axe, to deal with the sometimes very unreasonable people who own the land with the interesting minerals in it.<br />
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The dwarf race is not religious. However, tradition is held onto in a nearly religious way, and there such a thing as [[mine sign]] which is the subject of much superstition. And they know [[Uberwaldean land eels|unholy]] when they see it.<br />
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Because it costs a lot of money to rise a young dwarf to marriageable age, two dwarfs getting married have to buy the other dwarf off their parents. Traditionally, it has to be paid for in gold or at least gems.<br />
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==Dwarf emancipation== <br />
There is no female style of clothing or female pronoun; there are no female names in dwarfish. Both male dwarfs and female dwarfs naturally have beards and it has never occurred to any dwarf to shave, and thus doing so is considered undwarfish and shameful. The gender of a dwarf is only revealed to those concerned, during courtship, when at age two hundred the concerned parties are deemed mature enough to handle it without giggling (gender not being considered important by most dwarfs compared to things such as metallurgy and hydraulics). An interesting implication of this custom is that there is no gender discrimination when a dwarf seeks a job position or tries to make a career or open a business.<br />
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Forensics Watchdwarf [[Cheery Littlebottom]] clarifies this superficial equality by explaining while dwarf women are allowed do anything men can do, they are expected to ''only'' do those things; acting "female" has less to do with sexism and more to do with acting undwarfish. When she started wearing makeup, leather skirt (very plain-styled), and an armor that is modified in the chest region, a cultural revolution began (see ''[[Book:Feet of Clay|Feet of Clay]]''), leading to much internal conflict in dwarf politics. Nowadays, traditional-minded dwarfs hate not only openly female young dwarfs, but also dwarfs who ''spend too much time in the sun'' and cooperate much with humans or tolerate trolls. To traditional-minded dwarfs, a dwarf's proper place is deep underground in a mine. Dwarfs have a natural lifespan of several hundred years, so they have a lot of time to get set in their ways and fuel old feuds. (See ''[[Book:The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'' and ''[[Book:Thud!|Thud!]]''.)<br />
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==Wars==<br />
For an explanation on the dwarfs' traditional enemy, consult the articles on the [[trolls]] and [[Battle of Koom Valley]]; a severe confrontation is described in the book ''[[Book:Men at Arms|Men at Arms]]''. It could be that, as of {{T!}} a truce is in the air as the current Low King [[Rhys Rhysson]] and [[Mr. Shine]] the [[Diamond King]] of the trolls have arrived at a parley to which many of leaders of the most senior dwarfish and trollish clans are abiding. Some of this is based on the new reading of the [[Tak|'''Gd Tak `Gar''']], and some of it is based on right-thinking individuals sweeping back the tides of enmity that are millennia-old.<br />
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Dwarfs serving the ultra-orthodox deep-down Grags are distinguished by their wearing black sashes. This particularly applies to their big (for Dwarfs) and fearsomely beweaponed bodyguards. The black sash serves as visual shorthand, to advise the onlooker "Do not annoy me as I am trained, and temperamentally disposed, to make the rest of your life short and full of interesting event." Compare this to the purple sash worn by teacher-Assassins, which conveys much the same message.<br />
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==Language==<br />
The dwarf language is complexe and while it can be spoken by humans, it does sound like you have a throat full of gravel.<br />
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Dwarves have a detailed rune alphabet used for important records and documents, though many are able to read human script as well.<br />
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For a complete list of [[Dwarfish phrases|dwarvish phases click here]] <br />
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==Possibly blindingly obvious Annotation==<br />
Terry Pratchett has fuelled lots of mirth and travelled many miles on all the things that may be extrapolated from just one line of J.R.R. Tolkien's '''''The Lord of the Rings'''''.<br />
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The dwarf Gimli is on record as having dismissed the fallacious legend that there are no Dwarf-women and therefore the race were born by being hewn from living stone: "''It was said by Gimli that there are few dwarf-women, probably no more than a third of the whole people. They seldom walk abroad except at great need. They are in voice and appearance, and in garb if they must go on a journey, so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of other peoples cannot tell them apart. This has given rise to the foolish opinion among Men that there are no dwarf-women, and that the Dwarves 'grow out of stone'.''" (LotR, Appendix A, III). In another posthumously published text it is also stated that "''the Naugrim''[Dwarves]'' have beards from the beginning of their lives, male and female alike''" (HoMe 11: The War of the Jewels, "Of the Naugrim and the Edain").<br />
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As TP has pointed out, this means that Dwarf females must also be heavily bearded and beweaponed, and also favour the chainmail-and-leather casual look. <br />
<br />
Leading us ultimately to [[Cheery Littlebottom]]...<br />
<br />
[[de:Zwerge]]<br />
[[Category:Discworld humanoid species]]<br />
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Catastrophe Carter]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*Heidehollen, philosopher (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[Verence II]], King of [[Lancre]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Five-and-Seven Yard]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]] in [[Creek Alley]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Long Hogmeat]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**Temple of Offler (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[Mouldavia]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Golems]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Eau-de-Nil]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Oil of Scallatine]]<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
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[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
[[de:Buch:Die volle Wahrheit]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Book:The_Truth&diff=17892Book:The Truth2013-10-21T10:46:31Z<p>EinFritz: /* Locations */ Mouldavia (mentioned)</p>
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Catastrophe Carter]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*Heidehollen, philosopher (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[Verence II]], King of [[Lancre]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Five-and-Seven Yard]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]] in [[Creek Alley]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Long Hogmeat]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**Temple of Offler (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[Mouldavia]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Golems]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
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*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
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==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
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== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Eau-de-Nil]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
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==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
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William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
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==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
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Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
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Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
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In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
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While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
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De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
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==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
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The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
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*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
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The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
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==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
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===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
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===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Catastrophe Carter]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*Heidehollen, philosopher (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[Verence II]], King of [[Lancre]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
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==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Five-and-Seven Yard]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]] in [[Creek Alley]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Long Hogmeat]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**Temple of Offler (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
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*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
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*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
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==Sentient Species==<br />
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*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Golems]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
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==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Eau-de-Nil]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
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[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
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<div>Golems are mechanical entities baked from clay and powered by [[chem|holy words]] in their heads. Golems are made, usually in a lumpy human shape. They used to be considered non-lifeforms, but lately, quite a few individual golems have begun to demonstrate personality and personal initiative, and get hired with a salary instead of working for nothing and being bought and sold as machines.<br />
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The holy words or [[chem]] usually define the behaviour and aim of the Golem. The word "Freedom" for example will make the Golem long for just that. A Golem can be ordered to show its chem. If it is removed from the Golem's head the Golem will cease to live, which usually goes along with the extinguishing of the fire-like light in the Golem's eyes. The only exception known is [[Dorfl]] who lives without a chem: “Words in the heart can not be taken”, as he states himself in {{FOC}}.<br />
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Golems take orders very seriously. They will continue to follow the order until told to stop. If the owner forgets that he ordered the Golem to dig a hole in the garden he might end up with a nice view unto A'Tuin's shell. Because Golems usually follow every order without protest, without payment, and without rest, they are rather popular for dirty and dangerous jobs.<br />
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Most golems had been made centuries before the present; no new golems have been made because priests argued that the creation of life is the domain of [[the gods]]. Most golems had been made with sealed lips and no voice, but the recently freed golems have acquired the ability to speak; technical details on how this change is made are unknown. It is said on [[Roundworld]] that if a golem were made able to speak, that would give it a soul, and — because a golem cannot be made perfectly — that ability could make it very dangerous.<br />
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In {{ISWM}}, it is demonstrated that in times of emergency, a powerful witch such as [[Mrs Proust]] may temporarily make a Golem from a handy statue - in this case an equestrian statue of notorious general Lord [[Albert Rust]], which she uses to disperse a crowd of witch-hunters, and then hitches a ride home on. A witch's spell, if powerful enough, is perhaps the equivalent of a one-shot chem? <br />
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These days, Golems are trying to free themselves in the only way they know: by working and saving to buy themselves. To assist in this endeavor, the [[Golem Trust]] has been established. Free Golems can be hired, a service run by [[Adora Belle Dearheart]]. The proceeds go to freeing Golems.<br />
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Unlike former fire brigades, who had seen to it that there was an ample supply of fires to put out, the golem fire brigade, mentioned in {{TT}}, limits itself to rescue people, secure portable property, and extiguish the fire. It is said that either the Watch had the idea for it or golems simply would not allow people and property to be destroyed. But since golems have been employed for a long time in Ankh-Morpork, the latter theory stands on very shaky ground, and the origin of the golem fire brigade remains a mystery.<br />
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In {{UA}} a magazine named ''[[Golem Spotter Weekly]]'' is mentioned, meaning a geeky hobby concerning impressive machines has emerged.<br />
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Golems make a major appearance in ''[[Book:Feet of Clay|Feet of Clay]]'', ''[[Book:Going Postal|Going Postal]]'' and ''[[Book:Making Money|Making Money]]''. <br />
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== Notable Golems ==<br />
*[[Dorfl]], member of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watch]]<br />
*[[Gladys]], personal assistant of [[Moist von Lipwig]], about fifteen hundred years old<br />
*[[Meshugah]], king of the Golems<br />
*[[Pump|Mr. Pump]], a bodyguard in a very literal sense, about three thousand years old<br />
*[[Anghammarad]], almost nineteen thousand years old<br />
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== Umnian golems ==<br />
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Developments described in {{MM}} give us a fuller picture of golem history than was previously possible.<br />
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Golem legend says that golems were first invented by the Umnians about 60,000 years ago. The Umnians did not invent anything else, did not work iron or use the wheel, for example. They did not need to. Their city was built without walls, guarded by golems. They also made golem horses, something which had not been achieved since. It was the Age of Clay. Golems were bigger then, maybe ten feet tall, compared to seven feet more recently. At that time the very best sculptors made them to rival the most beautiful of statues, rather than in the hulking gingerbread-man style that evolved later.<br />
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Fragments of golem from that period were known to the Unseen University. One of them was in the [[Cabinet_of_Curiosity|Cabinet of Curiosities]]. It matched exactly the piece brought back from Uberwald by [[Adora Belle Dearheart]]. The stories about Um say that it was destroyed in a flood. According those who took part in the Golem Trust expedition there, it was probably a natural ice dam in the mountains that burst, and flooded half the continent. The golems of Um were washed away with the rubble, and ended up against some chalk cliffs by the sea, buried half a mile down under sand and gravel.<br />
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It was one of these golems, which after some 60,000 years of guarding in the dark, "raised its mind in song". The passing of time meant nothing as such, but the pressure was increasing, some had shattered, and some, the younger ones, had gone silent. Something had to be done. Its song was heard by a golem from the [[Golem_Trust|Golem Trust]], who reported it.<br />
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After making a contract at considerable expense with a deeply suspicious Low King of the dwarfs, a team from the Golem Trust tunnelled into the sand. Eventually the tunnel became unstable, and one group had to go forward to free the trapped golems, while the tunnel was closed at the surface. The plan was to lead them out under the sea, and to cross under the sea to Ankh Morpork. Communication was difficult, because although golems had shared a common language for 20,000 years, no-one spoke Umnian. At the time when there was last an exchange between the underground group and the surface, Adora Belle understood that they were going towards four golems, who might be golden golems. With the aid of the university [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications]], and Professor [[Flead]], she comes to understand that what in fact was meant was four thousand golems, but by this point it was academic, because they had arrived in the city. The one imperative for them being to guard the city, they immediately passed through it to the walls, where they set them themselves to guard it. One golem remained in the centre, together with seventeen golem horses.<br />
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Using the prospect of a long-term ticket to the Pink PussyCat poledancing club as persuasion, [[Moist von Lipwig]] gets the co-operation of of the unrepressed Professor Flead as a translator. By virtue of the fact that he is dressed in a suit of gold, which was worn by the Umnian priests, and by virtue of his skill in evoking trust, Moist finds a way of causing the golem army to obey him. They are to go ten miles from the city, and to bury themselves again. This resolves many, but not all, problems.<br />
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Adora Belle is both impressed and put out by his ability to communicate with them. [[Vetinari]] is in doubt as to how to handle a person who commands the biggest army in the world, as well as how to stop an arms race among other states. [[Hubert Turvy]] had explained how employing them as labour in the city would cause unemployment and depression. Although Moist hopes to negotiate with Vetinari the use of half a dozen golem horses for the Post Office, and 400 of the buried golems to power the Clacks system, he mainly wishes to use the buried golems as a kind of gold reserve for the Bank of Ankh Morpork, of which he was at that moment Master. The idea takes a bit of thinking about.<br />
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Adora Belle says there is no way of changing the purpose of these golems. There is no access to their chem, if it is in their head. It may be written in their clay. The free golems of Ankh Morpork are disturbed by the presence of the golem army. They fear they will be the cause of trouble. With no chem that can be changed, they are worse than zombies. As far as these are concerned, their imperative is to guard, but this implies the potential to kill. Vetinari deftly finds a way of defusing the threat of an arms race, at least the threat of this particular army.<br />
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== Agatean Golems ==<br />
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Golems are found in the [[Agatean Empire]] in the form of the [[Red Army]]. Described in [[Interesting Times]] they resemble famous roundworld Terracotta Army, thousands of seven foot statues, in full battle armour. They were original created long ago by the [[Great Wizard]] at the founding of the empire to aid the first emperor [[One Sun Mirror]]. Forged from lighting and earth they were controlled by use of a magical suit of armour; a helmet to see, boots to move and gauntlets to command them to fight or work. The Red Army golems were not the same as Ankh-Morpork golems, having no chem, and unable to think for themselves; they could not opperate without a controller. <br />
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Buried under a small hill on the edge of [[Hunghung]] the army stood guard over the tomb of One Sun Mirror for centuries, until discovered by [[Rincewind]] by a million to one chance. Activated they were able to win the day for [[Cohen the Barbarian]] and the [[Silver Horde]], who were battling to take control of the empire. Few Agatean solders could stand against them in a fight. True, their combat was limited to parry - thrust - advance, but it was the way they totally ignored what their adversary was doing, stepping on them if they were not dead, and the way they smiled all the time that caused the soldiers to flee in panic, routing the warlords.<br />
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==Metal Warriors of Pitchiu==<br />
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Clearly some form of metal golem, they were created by the master craftsman [[Goldeneyes Silverhand Dactylos]] on the order of the ruler [[Pitchiu]] to guard his tomb. Once he finished the Metal Warriors Dactylos was showered with gold and then had his eyes removed on the orders of Pitchiu, to prevent him making anything so wonderful for anyone else.<br />
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== Language ==<br />
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The language spoken by golems is written using the [http://www.stooryduster.co.uk/images/pages/common-private-golem-language.htm Enochian alphabet shown here.] The Enochian characters are used for a simple cipher. <br />
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Once decoded, the Golem language reads as follows. In Making Money: on page 214 (hardback) Miss Dearheart's words transliterate as "I can speak formal golem" and on page 221 (hardback) Flead's words transliterate as "You make eternity bearable" and "Why do you care about golems? They have no passionate parts".<br />
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To underline their Jewishness, when golems write Morporkian their writing is rendered in a font which makes Roman characters look Hebrew. I am told that this is more obvious in the British edition than in the American.<br />
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== Annotations ==<br />
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In the [[Roundworld]], [[wikipedia:Golems|Golems]] are first found in early stories in the Talmud, and are most famously seen as servants to Rabbis, such as the most famous Golem of Prague, created and animated by the {{wp|Judah_Loew_ben_Bezalel|Rabbi Loew}}. This is probably why the Golems in [[Discworld]] have Yiddish names.<br />
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* ''Dorfl'': idiot, bumpkin, holy innocent;<br />
* ''Dybbuk'': evil spirit, demon;<br />
* ''Kvetch'': argumentative, complainer;<br />
* ''Meshhugah'': crazy;<br />
* ''Nidnuk'': worthless or inconsequential person;<br />
* ''Schmatter'': cloth material, tailored fabric;<br />
* ''Shtetl'': settlement, ghetto;<br />
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There are laws that are written on a scroll inside a golem's head (mentioned in ''Going Postal''). These laws are similar to Asimov's {{wp|Laws_of_Robotics|Laws of Robotics}}."''A golem may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...unless instructed to do so by duly constituted authority.''" In ''Going Postal'', "duly constituted authority" meant Vetinari.<br />
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'''See also:'''<br />
[[Red Army]], [[Oswald]]<br />
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[[Category:Discworld humanoid species]]<br />
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<div>'''Creek Alley''' connects [[Gleam Street|Gleam]] and [[Easy Street]]s, just toward the river from [[Cable Street]]. It's a dull street, made up of high-window warehouses and broken-down sheds, and home of [[Hobson's Livery Stable]].<br />
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== Annotations ==<br />
''Creque's Alley'' is a tiny laneway in Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands, insignificant except for hosting the formation of the pop group "The Mamas and the Papas". Its name was slightly altered for the the title of one of their hits, "Creeque Alley".</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Talk:Hobson%27s_Livery_Stable&diff=17888Talk:Hobson's Livery Stable2013-10-21T05:47:16Z<p>EinFritz: Bloat?</p>
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<div>== Bloat? ==<br />
Are the mentions of the ex-American President and the used-flying-saucer dealer citations or references to one of TPs books? Yes, they may be funny, but they seem to be irrelevant and are distracting. At least, the annoying flying-saucer-part should be considerably shortened.--[[User:EinFritz|EinFritz]] ([[User talk:EinFritz|talk]]) 05:47, 21 October 2013 (GMT)</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Book:The_Truth&diff=17884Book:The Truth2013-10-20T20:38:38Z<p>EinFritz: /* Locations */ Stable iis in Creek Alley</p>
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
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==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Catastrophe Carter]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*Heidehollen, philosopher (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[Verence II]], King of [[Lancre]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Five-and-Seven Yard]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]] in Creek Alley<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Long Hogmeat]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**Temple of Offler (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Eau-de-Nil]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
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[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
[[de:Buch:Die volle Wahrheit]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Hobson%27s_Livery_Stable&diff=17883Hobson's Livery Stable2013-10-20T20:37:42Z<p>EinFritz: Flying-saucer-part deleted, rent-a-horse and Creek Street added.</p>
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<div>An used-horse exchange, rent-a-horse and rent-a-horsebox businees, located in Creek Alley. Willie Hobson is a used-horse dealer, with all the connotations of trust and honesty similar occupations draw in across the Multiverse, be it a used-car dealer or an ex-American president on [[Roundworld]]... He found a niche and branched out.<br />
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As the {{NDC}} points out and in {{TT}} is told, many people in the [[Ankh-Morpork|city]] want the use of a horse sometimes, but not all the time. People who own horses often have nowhere to park them. So one kind of customer rents an occasional horse, the other rents stable space. And either way, Hobson provides: in the manner of a Roundworld multi-storey car park, his building provides stabling for horses on several levels.<br />
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It is darkly rumoured that Hobson employs an [[Igor]] to re-assemble serviceable horses from the functioning and still twitching parts of those who were intimately involved in cart accidents. Normally, a piebald horse has its black and grey colouring distributed a lot more, er, ''randomly'', than that... and it wouldn't have lines of large obtrusive stitches running all the way from the top of its head down its spine to the tail and then up its belly and back to the head...<br />
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In the past, characters as varied as [[Rincewind]] and [[Moist von Lipwig]] have used Hobson's equine-brokering services. <br />
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[[William de Worde]] used the livery stable as a neutral venue to meet [[Gaspode|Deep Bone]] (again alluding to Richard Nixon). <br />
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==Annotation==<br />
<br />
American president Richard Nixon was once wounded by an opposition campaign that likened his general standards of personal honesty and ethical integrity to those of a used car salesman... as it turned out, the occupational group that ended up with more of a right to feel aggrieved at being compared to a Presidential candidate would have been used-car salesmen...<br />
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Hobson's name is probably a reference to {{wp|Thomas Hobson|Thomas Hobson}}, who also operated a livery stable, and is famous for the expression "Hobson's choice".<br />
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[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses]]<br />
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
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==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Catastrophe Carter]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*Heidehollen, philosopher (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[Verence II]], King of [[Lancre]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Five-and-Seven Yard]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Long Hogmeat]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**Temple of Offler (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Eau-de-Nil]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
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==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
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==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*Heidehollen, philosopher (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[Verence II]], King of [[Lancre]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Five-and-Seven Yard]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Long Hogmeat]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**Temple of Offler (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Eau-de-Nil]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
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[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
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<div>Formerly the Dark Empire, Evil Empire or Unholy Empire, with the double-headed bat as symbol, and once ruled by a [[Sourcerer]] known as the Evil Emperor, who was, well, evil. Under the [[Evil Empire]], [[Orcs|all sorts of nasty things]] were created and used in war. As [[John Hicks]] puts it in {{UA}}, "you got what it said on the Iron Maiden".<br />
<br />
&Uuml;berwald describes a huge mountainous region of wintry climate. The ruling nobility of the land is composed of feudal [[werewolves|werewolf]] and [[vampires|vampire]] families. Lately, the [[dwarfs]] have also come into power. There are many [[trolls]] in the distant mountains, warring against the dwarfs, but in cities such as [[Bonk]], trolls are considered semi-sentient slaves. Humans are still mostly in the roles of "townspeople" or "exploited citizens". Most [[Igor|Igors]] come from &Uuml;berwald, where they traditionally serve those on the far side of sanity, using the excellent local lightning for their experiments. &Uuml;berwaldean is said to be a good cursing language.<br />
<br />
The principal town in &Uuml;berwald is [[Bonk]].<br />
<br />
Major appearances of the region are in {{WA}}, {{CJ}}, {{T5E}}, and {{MR}}. &Uuml;berwald is also often colloquially mentioned as the dark and mysterious place ruled and indeed overrun by the undead and bandits, standing in the middle of the continent, cutting off the traffic between the [[Sto Plains]] and [[Genua]]. <br />
<br />
The region is briefly visited by the [[Lancre]] witches in {{WA}}, where a local [[Vampires|vampire]] is defeated by a combination of [[Nanny Ogg]]'s garlic sausage, [[Magrat Garlick|Magrat]]'s insistence on sleeping with the window open, and [[Greebo]]'s irritation that a mouse with wings is trying to change shape on him.<br />
In truth, &Uuml;berwald also has many small towns with just your ordinary rural town people, not very mean, not very nice ({{TAMAHER}}, {{GP}}).<br />
<br />
Überwald is also home to many of the older races such as [[Centaur]]s.<br />
<br />
It is noted by [[Lord Vetinari]] that mapmakers often fill in blank areas of &Uuml;berwaldean maps with the phrase 'MMBU,' or 'Miles and Miles of Bloody &Uuml;berwald' In the same way Africa mapmakers used to mark their maps 'Miles and Miles of Bloody Africa'.<br />
<br />
As stated by [[Otto Chriek]], Überwalds' scenery is psychotropic: If you say something portentus like "zer dark eyes of zer mind", there would be a sudden crash of thunder, and if you point at a castle on a towering crag and say "Yonder is ... ''zer castle''", a wolf would howl mournfully...<br />
<br />
==Economy==<br />
The area does not come across as particularly wealthy, and is thinly populated. The main source of income seems to be mining, both metals and fat. Recently the [[Grand Trunk]] has reached Bonk, connecting this part of the continent with the rest of the world.<br />
<br />
==Cities, towns and locations==<br />
* [[Bad Blintz]]<br />
* Bad Heisses Bad<br />
* [[Bad Schüschein]]<br />
* [[Bonk]]<br />
* [[Bugs]]<br />
* [[Escrow]]<br />
* [[Lipwig]]<br />
* [[Schmaltzberg]]<br />
* [[Don'tgonearthe Castle]]<br />
* [[Müning]]<br />
* [[Splinz]]<br />
* [[Klotz]] - on the [[River Ah]]<br />
* [[Glitz]]<br />
* [[Slake]]<br />
* [[Wilinus Pass]]<br />
<br />
===Noble Families===<br />
<br />
*[[Margolotta]] - Vampire Counts<br />
*[[Dragoul von Salic|von Salic]] - Vampire Counts<br />
*[[John Smith|von Vilinus]] - Vampire Counts<br />
*[[Crazed Baron Haha|Haha]] - Human Barons<br />
*[[Guye von Uberwald|von Uberwald]] - Werewolf Barons<br />
*[[Bela de Magpyr|Magpyr]] - Vampire Counts<br />
*[[Notfaroutoe]] - Vampire Counts (bloodline now extinct in Uberwald, last heir living in Ankh-Morpork)<br />
<br />
==People==<br />
Some of the better known people from &Uuml;berwald:<br />
*Delphine [[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*Lady [[Margolotta]]<br />
*[[Serafine von Überwald|Baroness Serafine von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Guye von Überwald|Baron Guye von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Wolfgang von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Sally von Humpeding]]<br />
*[[Moist von Lipwig]]<br />
*[[Gryle]] - Banshee<br />
*[[Rhys Rhysson]] - [[Low King]] of the dwarfs<br />
*[[Albrecht Albrechtson]] - Head of senior dwarf family<br />
*[[Dee]] - Jar'akh'haga or 'the Ideas Taster' to the Low King. <br />
*[[Tantony]] - Captain of the [[Bonk]] Watch<br />
*Igor at the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
*Lots of other [[Igor]]s.<br />
*[[Sharn|Madam Sharn]]<br />
*[[Ardent]] - [[Grag]]<br />
*[[Hamcrusher]] - [[Grag]]<br />
*Mr [[Nutt]]<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
<br />
==Books Featuring Uberwald ==<br />
*{{UA}}<br />
*{{CJ}}<br />
*{{TFE}}<br />
*{{WA}}<br />
*{{TAMAHER}}<br />
*{{GP}}<br />
*{{MR}}<br />
<br />
==Annotation==<br />
On [[Roundworld]] "&Uuml;berwald" is the literal German translation of {{wp|Transylvania|Transylvania}} ("beyond [over] the forest"), where big part of the population is German-speaking, so the language of the inhabitants of &Uuml;berwald has also German-like accent. <br />
<br />
One of the most famous European empires was the Holy Roman Empire. The most famous royal house in it was the House of Habsburg, which used a double-headed eagle as its symbol and originated in eastern Europe. Of course, the Unholy Empire was more straightforward, being both an empire and unholy; the Holy Roman Empire by Voltaire's time was not holy, Roman, or an empire.<br />
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Pratchett himself confesses that this country is simply a collection of horror movie cliches especially those associated with the Hammer movies. As a result the fine lads and lasses over at [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Uberwald TV Tropes] have decided to name the whole trope of a spooky European kingdom with haunted castles, vampires, werewolves and fearful peasants everywhere you look ''Uberwald'', in fact I can do no better than to shamelessly rip off their entry:<br />
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A generic sort of "eastern Europe" area. There are peasants everywhere, and spooky old towns. Castles in the mountains abound, where one may find vampires, mad scientists, or the curse of the werewolf. Half of the population is gypsies who are easily angered and have funny accents.<br />
<br />
A late sixties' Hammer horror was called ''Theatre of Horror'', and used the idea of a travelling circus which carried among its number several vampire performers, who could perform, eat, then move on before they were noticed. Given that it may have used the doubly horrifying concept of a vampire clown, this makes the idea of Müning being the centre of Überwaldean clowning doubly more plausible and infinitely more scary. <br />
<br />
In the 1931 film version of Stoker's ''Dracula'', Van Helsing reflects:- "According to van Helsing, the Count must indeed have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land. If it be so, then was he no common man: for in that time, and for centuries after, he was spoken of as the cleverest and the most cunning, as well as the bravest of the sons of the '''''land beyond the forest'''''"<br />
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|title= King of the Golden River<br />
|photo= Harryking.jpg|Harry King, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]]<br />
|name= Harry King<br />
|age= <br />
|race= [[Human]]<br />
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|occupation= Waste Management<br />
|appearance= Large, pink-faced, with a few strands of hair teased across his head; smokes a big cigar<br />
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|residence= [[The Scours]], [[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
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|death= <br />
|parents= <br />
|relatives= <br />
|children= daughters Daphne and Herminone<br />
|marital status= Married to [[Effie King]]<br />
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|books= {{TT}}<br />
|cameos= {{NW}}, {{MM}}, {{SN}}, mentioned {{GP}}, [[Book:The Celebrated Discworld Almanak|''The Celebrated Discworld Almanak'']], [[Book:The World of Poo|The World of Poo]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Harry King''', also known as '''Piss Harry''' and '''King of the Golden River''' is a businessman in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. He places buckets in a number of establishments and charges the owners a quite reasonable fee to remove them once full. Harry then sells the contents, including saltpetre and ammonia, to alchemists and farmers. What can't be sold to these people can always be used to create compost, which can then be sold. Harry also collects rubbish for composting. People pay him to take away unwanted material, and then he can sell the material for more money.<br />
<br />
Harry is a large pink-faced man who is often seen smoking a big cigar. He employs quite a lot of staff: witness the long lines staffing the conveyor belt looking out for specific types of recyclables, including [[trolls]], [[golems]], [[goblins]], and [[gnolls]] (the only problem is that the gnolls might eat some of the stuff while the goblins convert likely-looking waste into [[unggue]] pots). There are also a number of big black dogs with some ''[[Lipwigzer]]'' ancestry. Not a Guild member, Harry resents the Guilds for having pressured him to join the Beggars, despite his having never begged for anything in his life. It is unstated why he was not instead recruited by the Guild of Plumbers and Dunnikindivers, although the unorthodox promptness of his bucket-removal services (every night, not "in a week or so, maybe two") may be to blame.<br />
<br />
As a young man Harry was always very good at spying out valuable waste, such as [[Tosheroon|tosheroons]] which could then be sold. As his wealth grew, he was able to hire gangs of street kids to act as workers, scavenging entire stretches of the river. Rival gangs were driven off or taken over, with Harry willing to hire trolls to act as enforcers long before anyone else caught on to the idea.<br />
<br />
The gates of Harry's yard used to carry the slogan ''"H. King - taking the piss since 1961"'' but on the insistence of his wife he changed the latter part to ''"recycling nature's bounty"''.<br />
<br />
Harry is quite illiterate, but he has the business sense to hire clerks who can and will honestly do his paperwork for him. Currently this is a nervous young man named Wallace. Although honest, the reason for Wallace's nervousness is that he knows dishonest clerks tend to become small amounts of profitable end-product, following an opportunity to get to know the guard-dogs better. Ever since earliest childhood, Harry has had a pretty direct way with those who want to cheat him. <br />
<br />
Harry has several daughters, and tries to lavish luxury on them in compensation for the perpetual bad smell around him. He is rich now and can get most of the things that money can buy, but one thing that is hard for him to get is class. Anyone who repays Harry a big favour by managing to get him some high-class guests at special occasions can make him very glad indeed.<br />
<br />
Harry features again in {{MM}} in a small but pivotal role, where his acumen as a businessman and developer is set is stark contrast to the money-making sleight of hand of [[Moist von Lipwig]]. His confidence in Moist's leadership of the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]] leads him to deposit quite a large sum of money just as the bank is about to be closed down.<br />
<br />
By the time of {{SN}}, [[Havelock Vetinari|Lord Vetinari]] has knighted him, dubbing him Sir Harold King and officially naming his wife "a ladyship". This gives her such great snobbish pride that Lady Euphemia is said to come down hard on any improper usage of her title, and therefore his title. But to [[Carrot|old]] [[Angua|friends]], Sir Harold's fine with an informal "Harry" in the privacy of his office.<br />
<br />
As well as an impressive fleet of honey-wagons, carts and horsedrawn drays, Sir Harry also runs a fleet of riverbarges and lighters to patrol the Ankh for likely-looking waste, before it dissolves or alchemically transmutes. He has a personal barge called the ''Lady Euphemia'', presumably after his wife. Although the interesting idea arises here. Like Britain's road transport magnate Eddie Stobart, a man who from humble beginnings rose to control a large road haulage fleet, is Sir Harry giving all his vehicles women's names? Stobart is famed for this whimsical quirk. <br />
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<br />
==Annotation== <br />
<br />
A ''euphemism'' is a literary device involving "trading up" a description of a place or a process or an event so that it sounds more genteel and refined. As an example, consider "fornication" or "copulation" as a euphemism for a shorter word also beginning with "f". Or "congress" as a refined and more genteel way of saying "copulation" - a higher-level euphemism. Or the slightly bizarre to British ears Americanism - "going to the bathroom" for "using the toilet". A general common point of all euphemism is that it takes a bodily function and related terminology, either sexual or scatological, and seeks to evade as much association with that bodily function as it possibly can. <br />
<br />
Hence the whole business with ''taking the piss since 1961'' and re-presenting it as ''recycling nature's bounty''. And the woman responsible for this is Lady ''Euphemia'' King. (Effie still, to her husband?)<br />
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[[Category:Discworld characters|King,Harry]]<br />
[[Category:Human characters|King,Harry]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses|King,Harry]]<br />
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*Heidehollen, philosopher (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Five-and-Seven Yard]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Long Hogmeat]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**Temple of Offler (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Eau-de-Nil]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
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[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Five-and-Seven Yard]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Long Hogmeat]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**Temple of Offler (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Eau-de-Nil]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
<br />
{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
[[de:Buch:Die volle Wahrheit]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Book:The_Truth&diff=17876Book:The Truth2013-10-20T16:45:30Z<p>EinFritz: /* Locations */ Temple of Offler (Mentioned)</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Five-and-Seven Yard]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Long Hogmeat]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**Temple of Offler (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
<br />
{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
[[de:Buch:Die volle Wahrheit]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Book:The_Truth&diff=17874Book:The Truth2013-10-20T16:44:06Z<p>EinFritz: /* Locations */ Five and Seven Yard (Mentioned)</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
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==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Five-and-Seven Yard]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Long Hogmeat]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
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*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
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*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
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==Sentient Species==<br />
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*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
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==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
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==Creatures==<br />
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*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
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== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
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*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
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<div>Written as '''[[57|Five & Seven Yard]]''' in the city [[Book:The Streets of Ankh-Morpork|mapp]], this is a square in the center of a small industrial area between the [[Isle of Gods]] and the residential area of [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]], next to the [[Apothecary Gardens]].<br />
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== Known Businesses ==<br />
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*[[Thomas Stronginthearm]]'s workshop <br />
*A dwarf maker of shaving mirrors patronised by Commander Vimes<br />
*Bob Holtely's paper re-cycling operation<br />
*Seven Peccadilloes Pub<br />
*Mr Fakenthorn's Flea Market<br />
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|title= King of the Golden River<br />
|photo= Harryking.jpg|Harry King, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]]<br />
|name= Harry King<br />
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|race= [[Human]]<br />
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|occupation= Waste Management<br />
|appearance= Large, pink-faced, with a few strands of hair teased across his head; smokes a big cigar<br />
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|residence= [[The Scours]], [[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
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|children= daughters Daphne and Herminone<br />
|marital status= Married to [[Effie King]]<br />
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|books= {{TT}}<br />
|cameos= {{NW}}, {{MM}}, {{SN}}, mentioned {{GP}}, [[Book:The Celebrated Discworld Almanak|''The Celebrated Discworld Almanak'']], [[Book:The World of Poo|The World of Poo]]<br />
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'''Harry King''', also known as '''Piss Harry''' and '''King of the Golden River''' is a businessman in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. He places buckets in a number of establishments and charges the owners a quite reasonable fee to remove them once full. Harry then sells the contents, including saltpetre and ammonia, to alchemists and farmers. What can't be sold to these people can always be used to create compost, which can then be sold. Harry also collects rubbish for composting. People pay him to take away unwanted material, and then he can sell the material for more money.<br />
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Harry is a large pink-faced man who is often seen smoking a big cigar. He employs quite a lot of staff: witness the long lines staffing the conveyor belt looking out for specific types of recyclables, including [[trolls]], [[golems]], [[goblins]], and [[gnolls]] (the only problem is that the gnolls might eat some of the stuff while the goblins convert likely-looking waste into [[unggue]] pots). There are also a number of big black dogs with some ''[[Lipwigzer]]'' ancestry. Not a Guild member, Harry resents the Guilds for having pressured him to join the Beggars, despite his having never begged for anything in his life. It is unstated why he was not instead recruited by the Guild of Plumbers and Dunnikindivers, although the unorthodox promptness of his bucket-removal services (every night, not "in a week or so, maybe two") may be to blame.<br />
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As a young man Harry was always very good at spying out valuable waste, such as [[Tosheroon|tosheroons]] which could then be sold. As his wealth grew, he was able to hire gangs of street kids to act as workers, scavenging entire stretches of the river. Rival gangs were driven off or taken over, with Harry willing to hire trolls to act as enforcers long before anyone else caught on to the idea.<br />
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The gates of Harry's yard used to carry the slogan ''"H. King - taking the piss since 1961"'' but on the insistence of his wife he changed the latter part to ''"recycling nature's bounty"''.<br />
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Harry is quite illiterate, but he has the business sense to hire clerks who can and will honestly do his paperwork for him. Currently this is a nervous young man named Wallace. Although honest, the reason for Wallace's nervousness is that he knows dishonest clerks tend to become small amounts of profitable end-product, following an opportunity to get to know the guard-dogs better. Ever since earliest childhood, Harry has had a pretty direct way with those who want to cheat him. <br />
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Harry has several daughters, and tries to lavish luxury on them in compensation for the perpetual bad smell around him. He is rich now and can get most of the things that money can buy, but one thing that is hard for him to get is class. Anyone who repays Harry a big favour by managing to get him some high-class guests at special occasions can make him very glad indeed.<br />
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Harry features again in {{MM}} in a small but pivotal role, where his acumen as a businessman and developer is set is stark contrast to the money-making sleight of hand of [[Moist von Lipwig]]. His confidence in Moist's leadership of the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]] leads him to deposit quite a large sum of money just as the bank is about to be closed down.<br />
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By the time of {{SN}}, [[Havelock Vetinari|Lord Vetinari]] has knighted him, dubbing him Sir Harold King and officially naming his wife "a ladyship". This gives her such great snobbish pride that Lady Euphemia is said to come down hard on any improper usage of her title, and therefore his title. But to [[Carrot|old]] [[Angua|friends]], Sir Harold's fine with an informal "Harry" in the privacy of his office.<br />
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As well as an impressive fleet of honey-wagons, carts and horsedrawn drays, Sir Harry also runs a fleet of riverbarges and lighters to patrol the Ankh for likely-looking waste, before it dissolves or alchemically transmutes. He has a personal barge called the ''Lady Euphemia'', presumably after his wife. Although the interesting idea arises here. Like Britain's road transport magnate Eddie Stobart, a man who from humble beginnings rose to control a large road haulage fleet, is Sir Harry giving all his vehicles women's names? Stobart is famed for this whimsical quirk. <br />
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==Annotation== <br />
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A ''euphemism'' is a literary device involving "trading up" a description of a place or a process or an event so that it sounds more genteel and refined. As an example, consider "fornication" or "copulation" as a euphemism for a shorter word also beginning with "f". Or "congress" as a refined and more genteel way of saying "copulation" - a higher-level euphemism. Or the slightly bizarre to British ears Americanism - "going to the bathroom" for "using the toilet". A general common point of all euphemism is that it takes a bodily function and related terminology, either sexual or scatological, and seeks to evade as much association with that bodily function as it possibly can. <br />
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Hence the whole business with ''taking the piss since 1961'' and re-presenting it as ''recycling nature's bounty''. And the woman responsible for this is Lady ''Euphemia'' King. (Effie still, to her husband?)</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Cost_of_Living_in_Ankh-Morpork&diff=17871Cost of Living in Ankh-Morpork2013-10-20T16:29:56Z<p>EinFritz: /* Miscellaneous */ "vun hundred eighty"; soil from compost heaps</p>
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<div>This is an article that began in the "discussion" pages of the [[Curry Gardens]] entry, which attempts to piece together what the everyday costs of living are for a typical [[Ankh-Morpork]] citizen. It's just got to be too big for its original page and has spilled over into areas which are not, strictly speaking, to do with spicy [[Klatch]]ian foodstuffs or the purveyors thereof.<br />
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This is a honest attempt to analyze the everyday economics of the Discworld and to assess how well it all fits together, using wages and costs quoted in the books. My intuition is that it will all come together, with a bit of tweaking, in surprising ways that TP never consciously intended when he thought he was plucking figures out of the air to add background detail to the life of the city. Consider the first section, based on the given costs of a curry at the Curry Gardens, compared to the known take-home pay of a lance-constable in the Watch, using Roundworld equivalent costings as an analogue. It all fitted, spookily well..<br />
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If the starting salary for a Watchman is $30 a month, we can assume this is a dollar a day.<br />
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Somebody on a £200 a week takehome pay in Britain is effectively earning £40 a day. (Let's assume £40 sterling equals $AM1)<br />
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A curry and rice meal from my local takeaway is around £5. This equates to the 10-15 AM pence quoted in the text. <br />
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£5 = 12.5% of that £40 daily pay.<br />
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The "mean" value between 10p (unnamed meat curry) and 15p (curry with named meat) is 12.5 pence. <br />
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So the watchman going to the Curry Gardens for a takeaway at the end of a shift is also paying, on average, 12.5% of his daily pay on that basic curry and rice meal... (unless he's [[Fred Colon]] and scrounging it for free}<br />
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I wonder how far other comparisons of this sort would work out? --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 21:31, 12 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Hmm, as the new book {{MM}} deals with the finance and economics of [[Ankh-Morpork]], it might be interesting to expand this discussion on the everyday economics of life in A-M and see if it all fits together. I suspect it will, in some surprising ways that TP never consciously intended. Look at the way the [[Book:The Discworld Mapp|Mappe]] of A-M came together without any need to rewrite the books, as if on some level somebody had already drawn it, and it just needed to be pulled off a shelf in the Reference section of [[L-space]]...--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 01:19, 28 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Pay Rates==<br />
<br />
''What do various levels of occupation attract by means of remuneration?''<br />
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Watch Lance-constable: $AM30 per month (prior to deductions and claimable expenses).<br />
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A "sliding scale" applies for higher ranks:- <br />
$AM40 for a Sergeant<br />
$AM50+ for officers.<br />
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[[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]]: we know the [[Mavolio Bent|chief Cashier]] is on $AM47 per month (pay rise to $AM65 pending).<br />
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The [[Moist von Lipwig|Postmaster General]], by contrast, is paid $AM80 per month, with food, uniform, and accommodation provided gratis. As this remains his substantive job, we should assume he remains on this pay scale while on detached service at the Royal Bank.<br />
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In {{TT}}, a general hand (unskilled labour) at [[Hobson's Livery Stable]] receives 50 pence a day - assuming a six-day week, $AM3.00 per week? <br />
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In {{RM}}, [[Bill Door]]'s starting pay as a farm-hand is sixpence a day - although accommodation and food are provided gratis.<br />
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In {{M!!!}}, the Director of the Opera is on $AM40 per month. At the same time, [[Seldom Bucket]] offered to raise [[Walter Plinge]]'s pay to six, no, ''seven'' shiny dollars a month!! Walter was therefore on a monthly pay of five, or less, dollars, as general hand and unskilled worker? (This equates neatly to the 50p/ten shillings a day, earned by the unskilled labourer at Hobson's). <br />
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[[Agnes Nitt|Trainee singers and dancers]] are on "very little" (described as "less than you'd get for scrubbing floors") but get board and lodging thrown in for free. However, bonus payments are given of up to five dollars per performance if there is any sort of risk of being killed on stage, or in recompense for the trauma of seeing a fellow cast member die in the line of [[Opera House|Opera]].<br />
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Hired muscle: the going rate for [[Trolls|troll]] bodyguards is apparently two dollars per day plus walking-about-looking-mean money. (As [[Myria LeJean]] discovers in {{TOT}}).<br />
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A senior journalist on the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]] such as [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] was being paid two dollars a day, plus expenses and bonuses, by the end of {{TT}}. Sacharissa's bonuses included access to a massive wardrobe of ball gowns and her expenses included the cost of taking them in. Other journalists and staff writers were either on piece rates or a dollar a day basic. <br />
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Domestic servants: When [[Tiffany Aching]], aged thirteen, leaves the Chalk to train as a witch in [[Lancre]], the cover-story used by the Witches is that she is going into domestic service as a Maid. Tiffany notes they have gone to some trouble to get the wage rates and working conditions sounding right. Tiffany is agreed to be worth, because of her prowess with cheese, four dollars a month, her own bed, one day off per week and a week's holiday at Hogswatch. The text notes that three dollars a month would be underpayment, and five dollars a month just that suspicious bit too generous. <br />
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Heretofore, in {{MM}}, was paid fofty dollars a month as Cosmo Lavish's private secretary. However, as Lavish was insane, this may be atypical. An alternative picture - given that Lavish, in his "I am Vetinari" insanity, called his secretary Drumknott, suggests he is making a fetish of matching the wage Vetinari paid his secretary. <br />
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A top fashion model such as [[Juliet Stollop]] ''begins'' at $AM25 for a single appearance. Glenda Sugarbean reflected that this is ''more'', for a couple of hours work, than she receives in a month as a senior cook/manager. <br />
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===The super-rich===<br />
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[[Samuel Vimes]] was consternated to be told that, on marrying [[Sybil Ramkin]], his net worth was $AM7,000,000 ''per year''. Can this be taken as typical for the very richest in society?<br />
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(At this point another consideration to be taken into account is '''[[Creaser|taxes]]''', as [[Samuel Vimes]] is on record, in a room full of rich tax-evaders, as saying he pays his. What are the City taxes and how are they assessed?)<br />
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In {{RM}}, we hear of the wranglings between the University and the Patrician as to whether the city's ''per capita'' tax applied to wizards. This tax is explicitly described as $AM200 per head, payable in four quarterly instalments of $AM50. Several problems emerge instantly when analysing this. For instance, [[Topsy Lavish]] implied that the majority of poorer people in Ankh-Morpork are on incomes of $AM150 a year or less for ''all'' expenses. (This estimate is supported in {{UA}}, when Glenda Sugarbean reflects that a pair of high-end fashion boots from [[Shatta]] cost $AM400 - Glenda notes this is about the average yearly income for a full family in her part of town). A tax of $AM200 would be impractical (and uncollectable?). Also, in a city of a million people, this implies Vetinari would have an annual taxable income of $AM200,000,000. This is hardly in-keeping with the air of a great city, fallen from grace and poverty-stricken, that he very carefully projects when asked for money. This also places a very optimistic gloss on the willingness of AM citizens to pay tax! (Reference Carrot's patient memory-jogging session with the Dwarf bakers in {{MAA}}). Not to mention the City's ability to collect, which Vetinari concedes at the end of {{MM}} is in urgent need of review.<br />
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One would suspect that a City poll tax exists, but is very carefully gradated to reflect ability to pay - i.e., an institution such as the University, perceived to be rich, pays more for its fully graduated wizards than, say, for non-teaching staff or students. It may even be charged with collecting this on behalf of the City and handing over an agreed lump sum (the text of {{RM}} implies this). In which case other informal "honesty-box" arrangements may exist with other Guilds and institutions.<br />
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==The "general headings" for most peoples' expenditure, post-tax and deductions== <br />
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===Rent and accommodation===<br />
(including "utilities" - cost of staying warm and lit indoors). Generally rent - not much of a mortgage market in A-M? <br />
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In {{J}}, Mrs [[Spent]] offers [[Ossie Brunt]]'s old room at $AM2 per week: this is for an almost unfurnished room that only has a ramshackle bed in it. Oh, and a broken window.<br />
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In {{GP}}, the three members of [[the Smoking Gnu]] "rent" accommodation at the [[Post Office]] for $AM3.00 per week. As this was to provide [[Tolliver Groat]] and [[Stanley Howler]] with some sort of subsistence income in lieu of pay they were not receiving, the assumption could be that Groat, a man who had to be worldly-wise in this respect, was charging the going rate plus some "silence money" on top, as he sensed the Gnu were not completely legitimate. <br />
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===Food and drink===<br />
How do people eat? We've already done a comparison on the cost of a takeaway and found it costs roughly the same proportion of daily pay in Ankh-Morpork as in Manchester. But food bought in and cooked at home?<br />
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We know one [[elim]] will buy one very small potato. So a full penny - sixteen elims - might buy enough potatoes for a meal for one, perhaps two? (Assuming "small potato" might equate to "Jersey New" - ie, about half the size of a golf ball, at their biggest).<br />
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In {{T5E}}, we discover the cost of a plucked and prepared chicken ready for cooking is $AM1 in the city. This fits, as historically chicken has always been something of a luxury meat: it's only in the last thirty years or so that poultry prices have dropped to the extent that it has become an everyday commonplace. (Comedian Spike Milligan recalls that in the 1930's, Christmas dinner was the rare treat of chicken. His family couldn't afford turkey and most weeks of the year they couldn't even afford chicken). A chicken would have been kept for the ongoing resource it provided in the form of eggs, and it would only have gone into the pot right at the very end of its life.<br />
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Out in the countryside, the availability of chicken increases and prices drop to 10 pence per bird. <br />
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In {{TT}}, an unspecified weight of butchered rat fillets costs two pence. This must be a substantial weight, as the blood content is more than ample to satiate the primal urge of a vampire on the brink of renouncing Temperance. As rat is a relatively cheap meat, (and as far as we know eaten only by Dwarfs) would other available meatstuffs take their price cue from the "rat standard"? <br />
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It's interesting that the going rate for unbutchered fresh rat carcasses is three for two pence (from the litany of grumbles made by Wee Mad Arthur, rat-catcher) and prime fillets taken from choice areas sell for as much as an entire carcass. <br />
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In {{FOC}}, we can infer the cost of Ecstatic-One-Hundred-And-Fifty-Minutes (getting the whole of a packed Drum incapably drunk up to and including sale of pints of gin) was $AM25, less three pence in change. <br />
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According to the [[goblin]] Regret of the Falling Leaf, one can purchase a Special Reserve Cognac from [[Quirm]] for AM$60 from [[Horrids]] on [[Broadway]], although there is a two-for-one deal at the Twister Boote's bottle shop in [[The Shades|the Shades]]- although the latter does have a slight taste of anchovy. This is surprisingly expensive, especially by Shades standards, but it is to be presumed that anything foreign is worth the extra money.<br />
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Also from {{FOC}}, there is the throwaway line that a dollar buys a loaf of bread - this is ridiculously expensive for a staple foodstuff. Perhaps this is a case of TP pulling a figure out of the air to illustrate a point about relative affluence - ie, gnomes and pictsies can earn as much as a human, but require far less in the way of food and in any case can make a home from a hollowed out stale loaf (of dwarf bread? Must be like a prefab made out of breezeblock). Maybe TP did the same not as actual cost but as illustration of the principle involved when defining the Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of economic inequality - in this, the cost of a pair of boots is also pitched unfeasibly high, as has been noted.<br />
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===Clothing===<br />
Historically, clothing was ''always'' more expensive in previous centuries, viewed as a higher proportion of one's weekly income. The individual would own less clothes but pay more for them. <br />
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In {{M!!!}}, the cost of a bespoke, haute couture, ballgown is given as $AM 300-500. This is hardly representative: in {{TT}}, [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] considered $AM40 would be the price for a dress you wear at a ball given by [[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] and she couldn't afford that kind of money. On the other hand, [[William de Worde|William de Worde's]] sister would be shocked to find anyone could spend as little as forty dollars for a dress. Similarly, the disgusting and loathsome [[Crispin Horsefry]], surely the Disc's first proto-Yuppie, spends $AM100 ''on a single shirt'' - because he ''can'', not because the shirt is in any justifiable sense worth $100. A pair of ''really expensive'' fashion boots for Dwarfs costs $AM400 from [[Shatta]]. <br />
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In {{M}}, we meet the landlord of [[The Quene's Head/Duke's Head]], and discover that he is considered affluent because he owns two shirts (one green, one yellow). <br />
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In {{MAA}}, we learn of the [[Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice]]: a ''really'' good pair of boots might be bought for $AM50. However, on a watchman's pay, even an officer's, he might struggle to get a "cheap" pair for $AM10....<br />
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The cost of a new gentleman's suit, with a spare pair of trousers possibly thrown in, is quoted in the early pages of {{RM}} as being $7. (As Ridcully points out, though, this is on the cheap side). <br />
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But then, there's always the [[Soon Shine Sun|Shonky Shop]], for items of clothing that look nostalgically back on the days when they were merely second-hand...<br />
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====Underwear====<br />
[[Lu-Tze]], in {{TOT}}, informs us that Mrs.[[Marietta Cosmopilite]], in accordance with the ''koan'' ''"Wrap up warm, or you'll catch your death"'', will do bespoke long johns, described as ''double-knit combinations, silk on the inside, then three layers of wool, with two handy trapdoors'' for $AM6 a pair, as he's an old and valued customer. However, she apparently can't turn a heel worth a damn. No prices are yet quoted for the products constructed for ladies who need to watch their figures, those who are perhaps more pint glass than hourglass, by [[Burleigh and Spoke]].<br />
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===Necessary bills===<br />
No state schools - therefore school fees for all children. <br />
*''Contingencies'': I'm assuming there is neither an NHS nor a welfare state in Ankh-Morpork. This heading might cover doctors' bills/general medical, dental (such as it is)<br />
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Some occupations, such as Watchman, come with free medical care, in the form of an [[Igor]], and occasional recourse to Dr. [[John Lawn|Lawn]] where this is needed. Assassins have a retained [[Doctor]] at their [[Assassins' Guild|Guild]], but Assassination is an occupation that might be considered that of a self-employed professional, or providing a pocket-money second income to a gentleman who is already well provided for and would be expected to meet his own medical expenses privately. <br />
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Like officers in certain upscale Army regiments, who are expected to be gentlemen of independent means, the official pay would just be small change and very few would rely on this alone for some sort of a living income. This last point is borne out in {{MR}}, where it has been calculated that the official salary of a very junior officer (in the Borogravian Army at least) is approximately seven AM shillings per day (subject to rates of exhange and the fact that the Borogravian currency is considered to be "fiat money" by the rest of the Disc's banking experts). This is a pay of AM$28-30 per month - on a par with an Ankhian Watchman, and surely not something an officer and a gentleman should be expected to live on alone! <br />
<br />
(''Economics Note: "Fiat Money"'':- Money whose declared value is unsupported by the usual sort of economic indicators, ie high GDP, balance of payment surplus, gold and currency reserves, desirable export goods. For instance, the old Soviet Union unilaterally declared the exchange rate of the rouble to the dollar was 1:1, where had the Soviet currency been allowed to find its own worth on the capitalist money markets, the true exchange rate might have been 60:1. By decree - '''''fiat''''' - , the Soviets artificially inflated the worth of their currency sixty-fold, but could only really enforce this where the Russian writ ran - the Warsaw Pact states, North Korea, Cuba, and any luckless visitors to the USSR who had to exchange at the official rate. When you know what you're looking for, Borogravian money in {{MR}} is a fiat currency - worth its face value only where this can be enforced, and because the Duchess has decreed it to be so. Fiat currencies are usually the last brute-force method of maintaining some sort of economic stability and staving off final collapse when all else has failed, or an economy has been fatally wounded by internal collapse, prolonged war, or consistently faulty economic assumptions. Regard modern Zimbabwe, inter-war Germany, or Nazi Germany in the last couple of years of WW2, having unaccountably made all its neighbours into implacable enemies and needing to pay the fabulous costs of total war.) <br />
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In {{MAA}}, the cost of a month's education at the Spiteful Sisters of [[Seven-Handed Sek]] Charity School is given as $AM2.00. Therefore yearly fees at a typical school - i.e., one accessible to ordinary people &ndash; might be no more than $AM24 per year.<br />
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===Entertainment===<br />
What do you do with your free time?<br />
<br />
A box at the opera is $AM50 per performance, but the stalls will be cheaper. <br />
<br />
In {{MM}} the [[Chief Cashier]] says that a penny can buy you a seat at the theatre for a hour. It is unknown what theatre he means, or whether he's just being poetic.<br />
<br />
Entry to the [[Odium]] to watch {{MP}} cost 5p, later increased to 10p. On a par with the music hall?<br />
<br />
A [[Twopenny Upright]] is slang for a very basic service from a Seamstress, although it is very likely that while the term remains in current slang, the basic service costs a little bit more than that. Perhaps a broad-minded researcher could locate a price list?<br />
<br />
Mrs [[Evadne Cake]] provides two levels of mediumistic intercession with the future and the next world. Tenpence buys you what she sees. A dollar pays for what actually happens.<br />
<br />
===Savings?=== <br />
Or would saving in a "funeral club" count as a deduction prior to receiving bulk residue of pay? <br />
<br />
We now know from {{MM}} that the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]] offers interest on small bank accounts, which must over time add to sources of income for account-holders. <br />
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===[[Public transportation|Travel]]===<br />
<br />
A cab fare from the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]] to [[Elm Street]] is eleven pence. ({{MM}}) It is informally expected a horse cab driver be tipped no less than 10%. ({{CAM}}) <br />
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The coach fare from [[Ankh-Morpork]] to [[Lancre]] is $AM50 ($AM40 is a [[Bandits' Guild]] surcharge). ({{LL}})<br />
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And now, of course, there are the horse omnibuses, the troll cars from {{UA}}, and golem horses from {{SN}} to price into the picture!<br />
<br />
A wider picture is provided in {{CAM}}: the short route from Sator Square to Dolly Sisters is charged at 2p. It is not unreasonable to suggest multiples of 2p are charged for progressively longer distances. <br />
<br />
The night bus from Ankh-Morpork to Sto Lat charges a single fare of two dollars fifty pence.<br />
<br />
Troll taxis (effectively a sedan chair attached to the back of a troll) are charged at approximately double the cost of a bus journey over a comparable distance, although fares into the Shades are surcharged because of the graffiti problem. {{CAM}}<br />
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===Miscellaneous===<br />
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We learn from the [[Yeti|yeti]]-hunters in {{TOT}} that the feet alone of a Yeti can be resold, for certain Agatean medical preparations, for $AM1,000. The pelt is worth an additional $AM900.<br />
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The accepted salary threshold, below which a person is deemed too impecunious to be able to afford the sort of personalised, indeed bespoke, service, offered by the [[Assassins' Guild]], is $AM10,000. Those earning below this yearly income may sometimes come to the notice of the Guild, but many assassins won't bother getting out of bed for small change of this nature. They are certainly thought of as only just being able to afford the Guild's services, if their income is at, or only just exceeds, this level.<br />
<br />
In fairness, the cheapest inhumation on the Guild books is the contract out on Corporal [[Nobby Nobbs]] of the Watch. Including the mandatory 50% Guild Tax, this stands at $AM1.00. (This is only nominal, as no self-respecting Assassin would work for so little, especially if it involves a high risk of being shouted at by Sam Vimes.)<br />
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Lord [[de Worde]] believed that anyone earning less than $1,000 per year was by inference a member of the criminal classes. <br />
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In {{J}}, the cost of a [[Dis-organiser]], being as it is the product of advanced technomancy, is $300.<br />
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In {{TT}}, Otto Chriek expresses a desire for the top-of-the-range Agatean "Akina" iconograph, which has the equivalent of an SLR lens (the demon has a telescopic seat allowing him to get right up close for ''really'' fine detail), together with other buzzers and flashing lights. This is $AM180.<br />
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A bag of fertile soil from one of [[Harry King|Harry Kings]] compost heaps is 10p; but you have to bring your own bag.<br />
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The perfume from [[Quirm]], Cedar Fragrance Pour Hommes, is available for AM$15 a pop.<br />
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==Information to be added==<br />
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We should diligently extract examples of given wages and costs from the books, list them under expenditure and income, and see if they stack up.--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 12:02, 7 November 2007 (CET)<br />
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<div>Mentioned in {{H}}, [[Dratley and Sons]] were situated here. They built a horrible wardrobe that scared [[Chickenwire]] as a child. A replica of this wardrobe consumed Chickenwire. It is also the location of the [[Disguise and Joke Shop]] ({{J}}), where [[Mr Spuddy Face]] toys and other forms of disguise are available. The road runs along the right bank of the [[Ankh (river)|Ankh]] and [[The Cut]] in central [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]] to [[Salis Street]]. In {{TT}} [[Otto Chriek]] is told that he can get colored glass from the dwarf run stained glass works on Phedre Road.<br />
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==Name Origin==<br />
''Phèdre'' is a dramatic tragedy, written by Jean Racine in 1677. It is based on the Greek myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus. It could be as simple as Phedre and [[Ankh-Morpork]]'s hippos.<br />
''"Feeder Road" is also the name of a real world road in Bristol, UK.<br />
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<div>This is an article that began in the "discussion" pages of the [[Curry Gardens]] entry, which attempts to piece together what the everyday costs of living are for a typical [[Ankh-Morpork]] citizen. It's just got to be too big for its original page and has spilled over into areas which are not, strictly speaking, to do with spicy [[Klatch]]ian foodstuffs or the purveyors thereof.<br />
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This is a honest attempt to analyze the everyday economics of the Discworld and to assess how well it all fits together, using wages and costs quoted in the books. My intuition is that it will all come together, with a bit of tweaking, in surprising ways that TP never consciously intended when he thought he was plucking figures out of the air to add background detail to the life of the city. Consider the first section, based on the given costs of a curry at the Curry Gardens, compared to the known take-home pay of a lance-constable in the Watch, using Roundworld equivalent costings as an analogue. It all fitted, spookily well..<br />
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If the starting salary for a Watchman is $30 a month, we can assume this is a dollar a day.<br />
<br />
Somebody on a £200 a week takehome pay in Britain is effectively earning £40 a day. (Let's assume £40 sterling equals $AM1)<br />
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A curry and rice meal from my local takeaway is around £5. This equates to the 10-15 AM pence quoted in the text. <br />
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£5 = 12.5% of that £40 daily pay.<br />
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The "mean" value between 10p (unnamed meat curry) and 15p (curry with named meat) is 12.5 pence. <br />
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So the watchman going to the Curry Gardens for a takeaway at the end of a shift is also paying, on average, 12.5% of his daily pay on that basic curry and rice meal... (unless he's [[Fred Colon]] and scrounging it for free}<br />
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I wonder how far other comparisons of this sort would work out? --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 21:31, 12 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Hmm, as the new book {{MM}} deals with the finance and economics of [[Ankh-Morpork]], it might be interesting to expand this discussion on the everyday economics of life in A-M and see if it all fits together. I suspect it will, in some surprising ways that TP never consciously intended. Look at the way the [[Book:The Discworld Mapp|Mappe]] of A-M came together without any need to rewrite the books, as if on some level somebody had already drawn it, and it just needed to be pulled off a shelf in the Reference section of [[L-space]]...--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 01:19, 28 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Pay Rates==<br />
<br />
''What do various levels of occupation attract by means of remuneration?''<br />
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Watch Lance-constable: $AM30 per month (prior to deductions and claimable expenses).<br />
<br />
A "sliding scale" applies for higher ranks:- <br />
$AM40 for a Sergeant<br />
$AM50+ for officers.<br />
<br />
[[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]]: we know the [[Mavolio Bent|chief Cashier]] is on $AM47 per month (pay rise to $AM65 pending).<br />
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The [[Moist von Lipwig|Postmaster General]], by contrast, is paid $AM80 per month, with food, uniform, and accommodation provided gratis. As this remains his substantive job, we should assume he remains on this pay scale while on detached service at the Royal Bank.<br />
<br />
In {{TT}}, a general hand (unskilled labour) at [[Hobson's Livery Stable]] receives 50 pence a day - assuming a six-day week, $AM3.00 per week? <br />
<br />
In {{RM}}, [[Bill Door]]'s starting pay as a farm-hand is sixpence a day - although accommodation and food are provided gratis.<br />
<br />
In {{M!!!}}, the Director of the Opera is on $AM40 per month. At the same time, [[Seldom Bucket]] offered to raise [[Walter Plinge]]'s pay to six, no, ''seven'' shiny dollars a month!! Walter was therefore on a monthly pay of five, or less, dollars, as general hand and unskilled worker? (This equates neatly to the 50p/ten shillings a day, earned by the unskilled labourer at Hobson's). <br />
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[[Agnes Nitt|Trainee singers and dancers]] are on "very little" (described as "less than you'd get for scrubbing floors") but get board and lodging thrown in for free. However, bonus payments are given of up to five dollars per performance if there is any sort of risk of being killed on stage, or in recompense for the trauma of seeing a fellow cast member die in the line of [[Opera House|Opera]].<br />
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Hired muscle: the going rate for [[Trolls|troll]] bodyguards is apparently two dollars per day plus walking-about-looking-mean money. (As [[Myria LeJean]] discovers in {{TOT}}).<br />
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A senior journalist on the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]] such as [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] was being paid two dollars a day, plus expenses and bonuses, by the end of {{TT}}. Sacharissa's bonuses included access to a massive wardrobe of ball gowns and her expenses included the cost of taking them in. Other journalists and staff writers were either on piece rates or a dollar a day basic. <br />
<br />
Domestic servants: When [[Tiffany Aching]], aged thirteen, leaves the Chalk to train as a witch in [[Lancre]], the cover-story used by the Witches is that she is going into domestic service as a Maid. Tiffany notes they have gone to some trouble to get the wage rates and working conditions sounding right. Tiffany is agreed to be worth, because of her prowess with cheese, four dollars a month, her own bed, one day off per week and a week's holiday at Hogswatch. The text notes that three dollars a month would be underpayment, and five dollars a month just that suspicious bit too generous. <br />
<br />
Heretofore, in {{MM}}, was paid fofty dollars a month as Cosmo Lavish's private secretary. However, as Lavish was insane, this may be atypical. An alternative picture - given that Lavish, in his "I am Vetinari" insanity, called his secretary Drumknott, suggests he is making a fetish of matching the wage Vetinari paid his secretary. <br />
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A top fashion model such as [[Juliet Stollop]] ''begins'' at $AM25 for a single appearance. Glenda Sugarbean reflected that this is ''more'', for a couple of hours work, than she receives in a month as a senior cook/manager. <br />
<br />
===The super-rich===<br />
<br />
[[Samuel Vimes]] was consternated to be told that, on marrying [[Sybil Ramkin]], his net worth was $AM7,000,000 ''per year''. Can this be taken as typical for the very richest in society?<br />
<br />
(At this point another consideration to be taken into account is '''[[Creaser|taxes]]''', as [[Samuel Vimes]] is on record, in a room full of rich tax-evaders, as saying he pays his. What are the City taxes and how are they assessed?)<br />
<br />
In {{RM}}, we hear of the wranglings between the University and the Patrician as to whether the city's ''per capita'' tax applied to wizards. This tax is explicitly described as $AM200 per head, payable in four quarterly instalments of $AM50. Several problems emerge instantly when analysing this. For instance, [[Topsy Lavish]] implied that the majority of poorer people in Ankh-Morpork are on incomes of $AM150 a year or less for ''all'' expenses. (This estimate is supported in {{UA}}, when Glenda Sugarbean reflects that a pair of high-end fashion boots from [[Shatta]] cost $AM400 - Glenda notes this is about the average yearly income for a full family in her part of town). A tax of $AM200 would be impractical (and uncollectable?). Also, in a city of a million people, this implies Vetinari would have an annual taxable income of $AM200,000,000. This is hardly in-keeping with the air of a great city, fallen from grace and poverty-stricken, that he very carefully projects when asked for money. This also places a very optimistic gloss on the willingness of AM citizens to pay tax! (Reference Carrot's patient memory-jogging session with the Dwarf bakers in {{MAA}}). Not to mention the City's ability to collect, which Vetinari concedes at the end of {{MM}} is in urgent need of review.<br />
<br />
One would suspect that a City poll tax exists, but is very carefully gradated to reflect ability to pay - i.e., an institution such as the University, perceived to be rich, pays more for its fully graduated wizards than, say, for non-teaching staff or students. It may even be charged with collecting this on behalf of the City and handing over an agreed lump sum (the text of {{RM}} implies this). In which case other informal "honesty-box" arrangements may exist with other Guilds and institutions.<br />
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==The "general headings" for most peoples' expenditure, post-tax and deductions== <br />
<br />
<br />
===Rent and accommodation===<br />
(including "utilities" - cost of staying warm and lit indoors). Generally rent - not much of a mortgage market in A-M? <br />
<br />
In {{J}}, Mrs [[Spent]] offers [[Ossie Brunt]]'s old room at $AM2 per week: this is for an almost unfurnished room that only has a ramshackle bed in it. Oh, and a broken window.<br />
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In {{GP}}, the three members of [[the Smoking Gnu]] "rent" accommodation at the [[Post Office]] for $AM3.00 per week. As this was to provide [[Tolliver Groat]] and [[Stanley Howler]] with some sort of subsistence income in lieu of pay they were not receiving, the assumption could be that Groat, a man who had to be worldly-wise in this respect, was charging the going rate plus some "silence money" on top, as he sensed the Gnu were not completely legitimate. <br />
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===Food and drink===<br />
How do people eat? We've already done a comparison on the cost of a takeaway and found it costs roughly the same proportion of daily pay in Ankh-Morpork as in Manchester. But food bought in and cooked at home?<br />
<br />
We know one [[elim]] will buy one very small potato. So a full penny - sixteen elims - might buy enough potatoes for a meal for one, perhaps two? (Assuming "small potato" might equate to "Jersey New" - ie, about half the size of a golf ball, at their biggest).<br />
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In {{T5E}}, we discover the cost of a plucked and prepared chicken ready for cooking is $AM1 in the city. This fits, as historically chicken has always been something of a luxury meat: it's only in the last thirty years or so that poultry prices have dropped to the extent that it has become an everyday commonplace. (Comedian Spike Milligan recalls that in the 1930's, Christmas dinner was the rare treat of chicken. His family couldn't afford turkey and most weeks of the year they couldn't even afford chicken). A chicken would have been kept for the ongoing resource it provided in the form of eggs, and it would only have gone into the pot right at the very end of its life.<br />
<br />
Out in the countryside, the availability of chicken increases and prices drop to 10 pence per bird. <br />
<br />
In {{TT}}, an unspecified weight of butchered rat fillets costs two pence. This must be a substantial weight, as the blood content is more than ample to satiate the primal urge of a vampire on the brink of renouncing Temperance. As rat is a relatively cheap meat, (and as far as we know eaten only by Dwarfs) would other available meatstuffs take their price cue from the "rat standard"? <br />
<br />
It's interesting that the going rate for unbutchered fresh rat carcasses is three for two pence (from the litany of grumbles made by Wee Mad Arthur, rat-catcher) and prime fillets taken from choice areas sell for as much as an entire carcass. <br />
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In {{FOC}}, we can infer the cost of Ecstatic-One-Hundred-And-Fifty-Minutes (getting the whole of a packed Drum incapably drunk up to and including sale of pints of gin) was $AM25, less three pence in change. <br />
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According to the [[goblin]] Regret of the Falling Leaf, one can purchase a Special Reserve Cognac from [[Quirm]] for AM$60 from [[Horrids]] on [[Broadway]], although there is a two-for-one deal at the Twister Boote's bottle shop in [[The Shades|the Shades]]- although the latter does have a slight taste of anchovy. This is surprisingly expensive, especially by Shades standards, but it is to be presumed that anything foreign is worth the extra money.<br />
<br />
Also from {{FOC}}, there is the throwaway line that a dollar buys a loaf of bread - this is ridiculously expensive for a staple foodstuff. Perhaps this is a case of TP pulling a figure out of the air to illustrate a point about relative affluence - ie, gnomes and pictsies can earn as much as a human, but require far less in the way of food and in any case can make a home from a hollowed out stale loaf (of dwarf bread? Must be like a prefab made out of breezeblock). Maybe TP did the same not as actual cost but as illustration of the principle involved when defining the Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of economic inequality - in this, the cost of a pair of boots is also pitched unfeasibly high, as has been noted.<br />
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===Clothing===<br />
Historically, clothing was ''always'' more expensive in previous centuries, viewed as a higher proportion of one's weekly income. The individual would own less clothes but pay more for them. <br />
<br />
In {{M!!!}}, the cost of a bespoke, haute couture, ballgown is given as $AM 300-500. This is hardly representative: in {{TT}}, [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] considered $AM40 would be the price for a dress you wear at a ball given by [[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] and she couldn't afford that kind of money. On the other hand, [[William de Worde|William de Worde's]] sister would be shocked to find anyone could spend as little as forty dollars for a dress. Similarly, the disgusting and loathsome [[Crispin Horsefry]], surely the Disc's first proto-Yuppie, spends $AM100 ''on a single shirt'' - because he ''can'', not because the shirt is in any justifiable sense worth $100. A pair of ''really expensive'' fashion boots for Dwarfs costs $AM400 from [[Shatta]]. <br />
<br />
In {{M}}, we meet the landlord of [[The Quene's Head/Duke's Head]], and discover that he is considered affluent because he owns two shirts (one green, one yellow). <br />
<br />
In {{MAA}}, we learn of the [[Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice]]: a ''really'' good pair of boots might be bought for $AM50. However, on a watchman's pay, even an officer's, he might struggle to get a "cheap" pair for $AM10....<br />
<br />
The cost of a new gentleman's suit, with a spare pair of trousers possibly thrown in, is quoted in the early pages of {{RM}} as being $7. (As Ridcully points out, though, this is on the cheap side). <br />
<br />
But then, there's always the [[Soon Shine Sun|Shonky Shop]], for items of clothing that look nostalgically back on the days when they were merely second-hand...<br />
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====Underwear====<br />
[[Lu-Tze]], in {{TOT}}, informs us that Mrs.[[Marietta Cosmopilite]], in accordance with the ''koan'' ''"Wrap up warm, or you'll catch your death"'', will do bespoke long johns, described as ''double-knit combinations, silk on the inside, then three layers of wool, with two handy trapdoors'' for $AM6 a pair, as he's an old and valued customer. However, she apparently can't turn a heel worth a damn. No prices are yet quoted for the products constructed for ladies who need to watch their figures, those who are perhaps more pint glass than hourglass, by [[Burleigh and Spoke]].<br />
<br />
===Necessary bills===<br />
No state schools - therefore school fees for all children. <br />
*''Contingencies'': I'm assuming there is neither an NHS nor a welfare state in Ankh-Morpork. This heading might cover doctors' bills/general medical, dental (such as it is)<br />
<br />
Some occupations, such as Watchman, come with free medical care, in the form of an [[Igor]], and occasional recourse to Dr. [[John Lawn|Lawn]] where this is needed. Assassins have a retained [[Doctor]] at their [[Assassins' Guild|Guild]], but Assassination is an occupation that might be considered that of a self-employed professional, or providing a pocket-money second income to a gentleman who is already well provided for and would be expected to meet his own medical expenses privately. <br />
<br />
Like officers in certain upscale Army regiments, who are expected to be gentlemen of independent means, the official pay would just be small change and very few would rely on this alone for some sort of a living income. This last point is borne out in {{MR}}, where it has been calculated that the official salary of a very junior officer (in the Borogravian Army at least) is approximately seven AM shillings per day (subject to rates of exhange and the fact that the Borogravian currency is considered to be "fiat money" by the rest of the Disc's banking experts). This is a pay of AM$28-30 per month - on a par with an Ankhian Watchman, and surely not something an officer and a gentleman should be expected to live on alone! <br />
<br />
(''Economics Note: "Fiat Money"'':- Money whose declared value is unsupported by the usual sort of economic indicators, ie high GDP, balance of payment surplus, gold and currency reserves, desirable export goods. For instance, the old Soviet Union unilaterally declared the exchange rate of the rouble to the dollar was 1:1, where had the Soviet currency been allowed to find its own worth on the capitalist money markets, the true exchange rate might have been 60:1. By decree - '''''fiat''''' - , the Soviets artificially inflated the worth of their currency sixty-fold, but could only really enforce this where the Russian writ ran - the Warsaw Pact states, North Korea, Cuba, and any luckless visitors to the USSR who had to exchange at the official rate. When you know what you're looking for, Borogravian money in {{MR}} is a fiat currency - worth its face value only where this can be enforced, and because the Duchess has decreed it to be so. Fiat currencies are usually the last brute-force method of maintaining some sort of economic stability and staving off final collapse when all else has failed, or an economy has been fatally wounded by internal collapse, prolonged war, or consistently faulty economic assumptions. Regard modern Zimbabwe, inter-war Germany, or Nazi Germany in the last couple of years of WW2, having unaccountably made all its neighbours into implacable enemies and needing to pay the fabulous costs of total war.) <br />
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In {{MAA}}, the cost of a month's education at the Spiteful Sisters of [[Seven-Handed Sek]] Charity School is given as $AM2.00. Therefore yearly fees at a typical school - i.e., one accessible to ordinary people &ndash; might be no more than $AM24 per year.<br />
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===Entertainment===<br />
What do you do with your free time?<br />
<br />
A box at the opera is $AM50 per performance, but the stalls will be cheaper. <br />
<br />
In {{MM}} the [[Chief Cashier]] says that a penny can buy you a seat at the theatre for a hour. It is unknown what theatre he means, or whether he's just being poetic.<br />
<br />
Entry to the [[Odium]] to watch {{MP}} cost 5p, later increased to 10p. On a par with the music hall?<br />
<br />
A [[Twopenny Upright]] is slang for a very basic service from a Seamstress, although it is very likely that while the term remains in current slang, the basic service costs a little bit more than that. Perhaps a broad-minded researcher could locate a price list?<br />
<br />
Mrs [[Evadne Cake]] provides two levels of mediumistic intercession with the future and the next world. Tenpence buys you what she sees. A dollar pays for what actually happens.<br />
<br />
===Savings?=== <br />
Or would saving in a "funeral club" count as a deduction prior to receiving bulk residue of pay? <br />
<br />
We now know from {{MM}} that the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]] offers interest on small bank accounts, which must over time add to sources of income for account-holders. <br />
<br />
===[[Public transportation|Travel]]===<br />
<br />
A cab fare from the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]] to [[Elm Street]] is eleven pence. ({{MM}}) It is informally expected a horse cab driver be tipped no less than 10%. ({{CAM}}) <br />
<br />
The coach fare from [[Ankh-Morpork]] to [[Lancre]] is $AM50 ($AM40 is a [[Bandits' Guild]] surcharge). ({{LL}})<br />
<br />
And now, of course, there are the horse omnibuses, the troll cars from {{UA}}, and golem horses from {{SN}} to price into the picture!<br />
<br />
A wider picture is provided in {{CAM}}: the short route from Sator Square to Dolly Sisters is charged at 2p. It is not unreasonable to suggest multiples of 2p are charged for progressively longer distances. <br />
<br />
The night bus from Ankh-Morpork to Sto Lat charges a single fare of two dollars fifty pence.<br />
<br />
Troll taxis (effectively a sedan chair attached to the back of a troll) are charged at approximately double the cost of a bus journey over a comparable distance, although fares into the Shades are surcharged because of the graffiti problem. {{CAM}}<br />
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===Miscellaneous===<br />
<br />
We learn from the [[Yeti|yeti]]-hunters in {{TOT}} that the feet alone of a Yeti can be resold, for certain Agatean medical preparations, for $AM1,000. The pelt is worth an additional $AM900.<br />
<br />
The accepted salary threshold, below which a person is deemed too impecunious to be able to afford the sort of personalised, indeed bespoke, service, offered by the [[Assassins' Guild]], is $AM10,000. Those earning below this yearly income may sometimes come to the notice of the Guild, but many assassins won't bother getting out of bed for small change of this nature. They are certainly thought of as only just being able to afford the Guild's services, if their income is at, or only just exceeds, this level.<br />
<br />
In fairness, the cheapest inhumation on the Guild books is the contract out on Corporal [[Nobby Nobbs]] of the Watch. Including the mandatory 50% Guild Tax, this stands at $AM1.00. (This is only nominal, as no self-respecting Assassin would work for so little, especially if it involves a high risk of being shouted at by Sam Vimes.)<br />
<br />
Lord [[de Worde]] believed that anyone earning less than $1,000 per year was by inference a member of the criminal classes. <br />
<br />
In {{J}}, the cost of a [[Dis-organiser]], being as it is the product of advanced technomancy, is $300.<br />
<br />
In {{TT}}, Otto Chriek expresses a desire for the top-of-the-range Agatean iconograph, which has the equivalent of an SLR lens (the demon has a telescopic seat allowing him to get right up close for ''really'' fine detail), together with other buzzers and flashing lights. This is $AM780.<br />
<br />
The perfume from [[Quirm]], Cedar Fragrance Pour Hommes, is available for AM$15 a pop.<br />
<br />
==Information to be added==<br />
<br />
We should diligently extract examples of given wages and costs from the books, list them under expenditure and income, and see if they stack up.--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 12:02, 7 November 2007 (CET)<br />
<br />
[[Category: Discworld culture]]<br />
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Long Hogmeat]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
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[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Clancy]], butcher<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
<br />
{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
[[de:Buch:Die volle Wahrheit]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Book:The_Truth&diff=17865Book:The Truth2013-10-20T06:13:46Z<p>EinFritz: /* Locations */ Oblong Office</p>
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
***[[Oblong Office]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
<br />
{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
[[de:Buch:Die volle Wahrheit]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Book:The_Truth&diff=17864Book:The Truth2013-10-19T20:18:09Z<p>EinFritz: /* Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera */ Iconograph; Photographer</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|cover=<br />
[[File:Cover The Truth.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date= Nov 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0552147680<br />
|pages=319<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters=[[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
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== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
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*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Iconograph]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Photographer]]<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
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[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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<div>In {{TT}}, [[William de Worde]] learns from [[Otto Chriek]] that this is an old [[Latatian]] title derived from the word ''"photus"'' roughly meaning ''to prance around like a pillock ordering everyone about as if you owned the place''. <br />
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It is apparently cognate with the more accepted [[Ephebe|Ephebian]] term ''[[Iconograph|iconographer]]''. <br />
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The term is even known on [[Roundworld]], as [[Jeremy the Thumb]] appears to be a classic example of the type. <br />
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<div>An '''iconograph''' is a wonderful device that allows you to make "instantaneous paintings". In fact, an [[Imps|imp]] with brushes, pencils and a good eye for colours is put in a box, and when you push the button, you open a little window on the box and the imp draws ''really'' fast what it sees through the opening. [[Salamander]]s are used when more light is necessary for the imp to paint a good picture. All but the cheapest of today's iconographs can paint in colour. <br />
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Imps have no imagination whatsoever, and as a result, paint very accurate pictures. They do whatever they are told so long as it is within the limits of their training, such as being able to "zoom" in and paint in very small detail, or even to paint the picture of a cart and its number if it exceeds the speed limit. <br />
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First introduced in [[Ankh-Morpork]] by the [[Agatean Empire|Agatean]] tourist [[Twoflower]] (in ''[[Book:The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]''), they are now very common, and are used in the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watch]] (''[[Book:Feet of Clay|Feet of Clay]]'' and ''[[Book:The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'') or in [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspapers]]. Very small imps, called nano-imps, are used in very small iconographs that can be kept in a pocket, a favorite tool of spying diplomats (see ''[[Book:The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]''). <br />
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A multi-imp variation had been used in the [[Century of the Fruitbat|moving pictures]] industry (see ''[[Book:Moving Pictures|Moving Pictures]]''). Another recent adaption is using three imps with different coloured goggles to achieve coloured printing. A [[Otto Chriek|vampire]] slightly well-known in Ankh-Morpork was experimenting with the use of dark light from [[Überwaldean land eels]], but no progress has been reported (see ''[[Book:The Truth|The Truth]]''). <br />
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Theoretically the lifespan of the imp is endless, but the imps of the cheaper iconographs seem to disappear rather quickly. Independently of this, the painting colours used by the imp have to be refilled as they are used up, and the imps themselves require regular feeding, though they seem to be able to survive without any form of sustenance for several weeks.<br />
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Normally, the user of the iconograph is called "iconographer", but another term could well be "[[Photographer]]".<br />
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==Annotations==<br />
The principle of splitting the light unto three strips of monochromatic film with different filtering is how {{wp|Technicolor|Technicolor(tm)}} actually works. It also needs a lot of money to work.<br />
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<div>It is very possible her full name is Pucrezia [[Lavishes|Lavish]].<br />
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Sister of [[Cosmo Lavish]], she is an impetuous, not very bright, no longer all that young, woman. From inference we can glean that she is built like an [[Agnes Nitt|opera star]] of the old school and reinforced stage - she certainly has the good head of hair.<br />
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It has been said that some women look sensational in black. But a sliding scale applies where for every extra ten pounds in weight, proportionately less of the "sensational" applies. Pucci is yet to learn this. Her attempt to entice [[Moist von Lipwig]] into a honey trap for blackmail purposes led to his diving head-first out of the opposite coach window, and shattering the [[iconograph]] of the accomplice who was set to take the compromising photos. Moist considered that he'd never before seen such a quantity of ''deshabillée'' in one place nor indeed all belonging to the same woman....<br />
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She has unshatterable vanity and an exaggerated sense of her own beauty and intelligence which is not borne out in real life. Her brain seems to run multiple threads at once, all of them at varying speeds, and it is not uncommon for her to completely switch tracks mid-sentence because of this. She also has absolutely no idea that the more disreputable practices of the very rich cannot be loudly bragged about in public, especially in front of a certain [[Vetinari|audience]].<br />
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==Annotation==<br />
*For the '''''Borgia''''' connection on Pucci/Pucrezia, see under [[Lavishes]]. <br />
*"Pucci" is a take on the fashion house of ''Pucci;'' "Pucci" is also a take on ''Gucci'' - overpriced designer accessories for the woman with more money than taste, generally flaunted by suddenly rich girl-groups and footballers' wives and girlfriends, and now thought of by the fashion fascists as the mark of the gauche and nouveau-riche. Well, if ''anybody'' can buy them just because they've got the money to, then they're not '''''exclusive''''' any more, it stands to reason, doesn't it? It's like the thing with chavs and Burberry... Emilio Pucci's ancestors were wealthy Florentine merchant-bankers and rivals to the Medici, not unlike the Lavishes. <br />
*"Pucci" is also pronounced "Poochie", which is rather mean, although unkind men might well see the joke and murmur "woof woof!" as she walks by...<br />
*Interestingly enough, in {{CJ}}, [[Vlad de Magpyr]]'s pet name for his sister [[Lacrimosa]] is a similar contraction: ''Lacrimosa'' shortens to '''''Lacci'''''. In invoking a distant echo of the de Magpyrs, could it be that the suggestion is being made that the banking [[Lavishes]] are a different sort of vampire family, sucking a different sort of lifeblood out of the system - in this case [[Ankh-Morpork]] - to sustain themselves as not-very-efficient parasites. (the sort that don't realise it's in their best interests not to get too greedy and kill the host they're living off.)<br />
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<div>This is an article that began in the "discussion" pages of the [[Curry Gardens]] entry, which attempts to piece together what the everyday costs of living are for a typical [[Ankh-Morpork]] citizen. It's just got to be too big for its original page and has spilled over into areas which are not, strictly speaking, to do with spicy [[Klatch]]ian foodstuffs or the purveyors thereof.<br />
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This is a honest attempt to analyze the everyday economics of the Discworld and to assess how well it all fits together, using wages and costs quoted in the books. My intuition is that it will all come together, with a bit of tweaking, in surprising ways that TP never consciously intended when he thought he was plucking figures out of the air to add background detail to the life of the city. Consider the first section, based on the given costs of a curry at the Curry Gardens, compared to the known take-home pay of a lance-constable in the Watch, using Roundworld equivalent costings as an analogue. It all fitted, spookily well..<br />
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If the starting salary for a Watchman is $30 a month, we can assume this is a dollar a day.<br />
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Somebody on a £200 a week takehome pay in Britain is effectively earning £40 a day. (Let's assume £40 sterling equals $AM1)<br />
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A curry and rice meal from my local takeaway is around £5. This equates to the 10-15 AM pence quoted in the text. <br />
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£5 = 12.5% of that £40 daily pay.<br />
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The "mean" value between 10p (unnamed meat curry) and 15p (curry with named meat) is 12.5 pence. <br />
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So the watchman going to the Curry Gardens for a takeaway at the end of a shift is also paying, on average, 12.5% of his daily pay on that basic curry and rice meal... (unless he's [[Fred Colon]] and scrounging it for free}<br />
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I wonder how far other comparisons of this sort would work out? --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 21:31, 12 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Hmm, as the new book {{MM}} deals with the finance and economics of [[Ankh-Morpork]], it might be interesting to expand this discussion on the everyday economics of life in A-M and see if it all fits together. I suspect it will, in some surprising ways that TP never consciously intended. Look at the way the [[Book:The Discworld Mapp|Mappe]] of A-M came together without any need to rewrite the books, as if on some level somebody had already drawn it, and it just needed to be pulled off a shelf in the Reference section of [[L-space]]...--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 01:19, 28 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Pay Rates==<br />
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''What do various levels of occupation attract by means of remuneration?''<br />
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Watch Lance-constable: $AM30 per month (prior to deductions and claimable expenses).<br />
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A "sliding scale" applies for higher ranks:- <br />
$AM40 for a Sergeant<br />
$AM50+ for officers.<br />
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[[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]]: we know the [[Mavolio Bent|chief Cashier]] is on $AM47 per month (pay rise to $AM65 pending).<br />
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The [[Moist von Lipwig|Postmaster General]], by contrast, is paid $AM80 per month, with food, uniform, and accommodation provided gratis. As this remains his substantive job, we should assume he remains on this pay scale while on detached service at the Royal Bank.<br />
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In {{TT}}, a general hand (unskilled labour) at [[Hobson's Livery Stable]] receives 50 pence a day - assuming a six-day week, $AM3.00 per week? <br />
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In {{RM}}, [[Bill Door]]'s starting pay as a farm-hand is sixpence a day - although accommodation and food are provided gratis.<br />
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In {{M!!!}}, the Director of the Opera is on $AM40 per month. At the same time, [[Seldom Bucket]] offered to raise [[Walter Plinge]]'s pay to six, no, ''seven'' shiny dollars a month!! Walter was therefore on a monthly pay of five, or less, dollars, as general hand and unskilled worker? (This equates neatly to the 50p/ten shillings a day, earned by the unskilled labourer at Hobson's). <br />
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[[Agnes Nitt|Trainee singers and dancers]] are on "very little" (described as "less than you'd get for scrubbing floors") but get board and lodging thrown in for free. However, bonus payments are given of up to five dollars per performance if there is any sort of risk of being killed on stage, or in recompense for the trauma of seeing a fellow cast member die in the line of [[Opera House|Opera]].<br />
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Hired muscle: the going rate for [[Trolls|troll]] bodyguards is apparently two dollars per day plus walking-about-looking-mean money. (As [[Myria LeJean]] discovers in {{TOT}}).<br />
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A senior journalist on the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]] such as [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] was being paid two dollars a day, plus expenses and bonuses, by the end of {{TT}}. Sacharissa's bonuses included access to a massive wardrobe of ball gowns and her expenses included the cost of taking them in. Other journalists and staff writers were either on piece rates or a dollar a day basic. <br />
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Domestic servants: When [[Tiffany Aching]], aged thirteen, leaves the Chalk to train as a witch in [[Lancre]], the cover-story used by the Witches is that she is going into domestic service as a Maid. Tiffany notes they have gone to some trouble to get the wage rates and working conditions sounding right. Tiffany is agreed to be worth, because of her prowess with cheese, four dollars a month, her own bed, one day off per week and a week's holiday at Hogswatch. The text notes that three dollars a month would be underpayment, and five dollars a month just that suspicious bit too generous. <br />
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Heretofore, in {{MM}}, was paid fofty dollars a month as Cosmo Lavish's private secretary. However, as Lavish was insane, this may be atypical. An alternative picture - given that Lavish, in his "I am Vetinari" insanity, called his secretary Drumknott, suggests he is making a fetish of matching the wage Vetinari paid his secretary. <br />
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A top fashion model such as [[Juliet Stollop]] ''begins'' at $AM25 for a single appearance. Glenda Sugarbean reflected that this is ''more'', for a couple of hours work, than she receives in a month as a senior cook/manager. <br />
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===The super-rich===<br />
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[[Samuel Vimes]] was consternated to be told that, on marrying [[Sybil Ramkin]], his net worth was $AM7,000,000 ''per year''. Can this be taken as typical for the very richest in society?<br />
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(At this point another consideration to be taken into account is '''[[Creaser|taxes]]''', as [[Samuel Vimes]] is on record, in a room full of rich tax-evaders, as saying he pays his. What are the City taxes and how are they assessed?)<br />
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In {{RM}}, we hear of the wranglings between the University and the Patrician as to whether the city's ''per capita'' tax applied to wizards. This tax is explicitly described as $AM200 per head, payable in four quarterly instalments of $AM50. Several problems emerge instantly when analysing this. For instance, [[Topsy Lavish]] implied that the majority of poorer people in Ankh-Morpork are on incomes of $AM150 a year or less for ''all'' expenses. (This estimate is supported in {{UA}}, when Glenda Sugarbean reflects that a pair of high-end fashion boots from [[Shatta]] cost $AM400 - Glenda notes this is about the average yearly income for a full family in her part of town). A tax of $AM200 would be impractical (and uncollectable?). Also, in a city of a million people, this implies Vetinari would have an annual taxable income of $AM200,000,000. This is hardly in-keeping with the air of a great city, fallen from grace and poverty-stricken, that he very carefully projects when asked for money. This also places a very optimistic gloss on the willingness of AM citizens to pay tax! (Reference Carrot's patient memory-jogging session with the Dwarf bakers in {{MAA}}). Not to mention the City's ability to collect, which Vetinari concedes at the end of {{MM}} is in urgent need of review.<br />
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One would suspect that a City poll tax exists, but is very carefully gradated to reflect ability to pay - i.e., an institution such as the University, perceived to be rich, pays more for its fully graduated wizards than, say, for non-teaching staff or students. It may even be charged with collecting this on behalf of the City and handing over an agreed lump sum (the text of {{RM}} implies this). In which case other informal "honesty-box" arrangements may exist with other Guilds and institutions.<br />
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==The "general headings" for most peoples' expenditure, post-tax and deductions== <br />
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===Rent and accommodation===<br />
(including "utilities" - cost of staying warm and lit indoors). Generally rent - not much of a mortgage market in A-M? <br />
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In {{J}}, Mrs [[Spent]] offers [[Ossie Brunt]]'s old room at $AM2 per week: this is for an almost unfurnished room that only has a ramshackle bed in it. Oh, and a broken window.<br />
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In {{GP}}, the three members of [[the Smoking Gnu]] "rent" accommodation at the [[Post Office]] for $AM3.00 per week. As this was to provide [[Tolliver Groat]] and [[Stanley Howler]] with some sort of subsistence income in lieu of pay they were not receiving, the assumption could be that Groat, a man who had to be worldly-wise in this respect, was charging the going rate plus some "silence money" on top, as he sensed the Gnu were not completely legitimate. <br />
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===Food and drink===<br />
How do people eat? We've already done a comparison on the cost of a takeaway and found it costs roughly the same proportion of daily pay in Ankh-Morpork as in Manchester. But food bought in and cooked at home?<br />
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We know one [[elim]] will buy one very small potato. So a full penny - sixteen elims - might buy enough potatoes for a meal for one, perhaps two? (Assuming "small potato" might equate to "Jersey New" - ie, about half the size of a golf ball, at their biggest).<br />
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In {{T5E}}, we discover the cost of a plucked and prepared chicken ready for cooking is $AM1 in the city. This fits, as historically chicken has always been something of a luxury meat: it's only in the last thirty years or so that poultry prices have dropped to the extent that it has become an everyday commonplace. (Comedian Spike Milligan recalls that in the 1930's, Christmas dinner was the rare treat of chicken. His family couldn't afford turkey and most weeks of the year they couldn't even afford chicken). A chicken would have been kept for the ongoing resource it provided in the form of eggs, and it would only have gone into the pot right at the very end of its life.<br />
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Out in the countryside, the availability of chicken increases and prices drop to 10 pence per bird. <br />
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In {{TT}}, an unspecified weight of butchered rat fillets costs two pence. This must be a substantial weight, as the blood content is more than ample to satiate the primal urge of a vampire on the brink of renouncing Temperance. As rat is a relatively cheap meat, (and as far as we know eaten only by Dwarfs) would other available meatstuffs take their price cue from the "rat standard"? <br />
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It's interesting that the going rate for unbutchered fresh rat carcasses is three for two pence (from the litany of grumbles made by Wee Mad Arthur, rat-catcher) and prime fillets taken from choice areas sell for as much as an entire carcass. <br />
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In {{FOC}}, we can infer the cost of Ecstatic-One-Hundred-And-Fifty-Minutes (getting the whole of a packed Drum incapably drunk up to and including sale of pints of gin) was $AM25, less three pence in change. <br />
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According to the [[goblin]] Regret of the Falling Leaf, one can purchase a Special Reserve Cognac from [[Quirm]] for AM$60 from [[Horrids]] on [[Broadway]], although there is a two-for-one deal at the Twister Boote's bottle shop in [[The Shades|the Shades]]- although the latter does have a slight taste of anchovy. This is surprisingly expensive, especially by Shades standards, but it is to be presumed that anything foreign is worth the extra money.<br />
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Also from {{FOC}}, there is the throwaway line that a dollar buys a loaf of bread - this is ridiculously expensive for a staple foodstuff. Perhaps this is a case of TP pulling a figure out of the air to illustrate a point about relative affluence - ie, gnomes and pictsies can earn as much as a human, but require far less in the way of food and in any case can make a home from a hollowed out stale loaf (of dwarf bread? Must be like a prefab made out of breezeblock). Maybe TP did the same not as actual cost but as illustration of the principle involved when defining the Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of economic inequality - in this, the cost of a pair of boots is also pitched unfeasibly high, as has been noted.<br />
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===Clothing===<br />
Historically, clothing was ''always'' more expensive in previous centuries, viewed as a higher proportion of one's weekly income. The individual would own less clothes but pay more for them. <br />
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In {{M!!!}}, the cost of a bespoke, haute couture, ballgown is given as $AM 300-500. This is hardly representative: in {{TT}}, [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] considered $AM40 was at the top end of her budget. Similarly, the disgusting and loathsome [[Crispin Horsefry]], surely the Disc's first proto-Yuppie, spends $AM100 ''on a single shirt'' - because he ''can'', not because the shirt is in any justifiable sense worth $100. A pair of ''really expensive'' fashion boots for Dwarfs costs $AM400 from [[Shatta]]. <br />
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In {{M}}, we meet the landlord of [[The Quene's Head/Duke's Head]], and discover that he is considered affluent because he owns two shirts (one green, one yellow). <br />
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In {{MAA}}, we learn of the [[Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice]]: a ''really'' good pair of boots might be bought for $AM50. However, on a watchman's pay, even an officer's, he might struggle to get a "cheap" pair for $AM10....<br />
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The cost of a new gentleman's suit, with a spare pair of trousers possibly thrown in, is quoted in the early pages of {{RM}} as being $7. (As Ridcully points out, though, this is on the cheap side). <br />
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But then, there's always the [[Soon Shine Sun|Shonky Shop]], for items of clothing that look nostalgically back on the days when they were merely second-hand...<br />
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====Underwear====<br />
[[Lu-Tze]], in {{TOT}}, informs us that Mrs.[[Marietta Cosmopilite]], in accordance with the ''koan'' ''"Wrap up warm, or you'll catch your death"'', will do bespoke long johns, described as ''double-knit combinations, silk on the inside, then three layers of wool, with two handy trapdoors'' for $AM6 a pair, as he's an old and valued customer. However, she apparently can't turn a heel worth a damn. No prices are yet quoted for the products constructed for ladies who need to watch their figures, those who are perhaps more pint glass than hourglass, by [[Burleigh and Spoke]].<br />
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===Necessary bills===<br />
No state schools - therefore school fees for all children. <br />
*''Contingencies'': I'm assuming there is neither an NHS nor a welfare state in Ankh-Morpork. This heading might cover doctors' bills/general medical, dental (such as it is)<br />
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Some occupations, such as Watchman, come with free medical care, in the form of an [[Igor]], and occasional recourse to Dr. [[John Lawn|Lawn]] where this is needed. Assassins have a retained [[Doctor]] at their [[Assassins' Guild|Guild]], but Assassination is an occupation that might be considered that of a self-employed professional, or providing a pocket-money second income to a gentleman who is already well provided for and would be expected to meet his own medical expenses privately. <br />
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Like officers in certain upscale Army regiments, who are expected to be gentlemen of independent means, the official pay would just be small change and very few would rely on this alone for some sort of a living income. This last point is borne out in {{MR}}, where it has been calculated that the official salary of a very junior officer (in the Borogravian Army at least) is approximately seven AM shillings per day (subject to rates of exhange and the fact that the Borogravian currency is considered to be "fiat money" by the rest of the Disc's banking experts). This is a pay of AM$28-30 per month - on a par with an Ankhian Watchman, and surely not something an officer and a gentleman should be expected to live on alone! <br />
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(''Economics Note: "Fiat Money"'':- Money whose declared value is unsupported by the usual sort of economic indicators, ie high GDP, balance of payment surplus, gold and currency reserves, desirable export goods. For instance, the old Soviet Union unilaterally declared the exchange rate of the rouble to the dollar was 1:1, where had the Soviet currency been allowed to find its own worth on the capitalist money markets, the true exchange rate might have been 60:1. By decree - '''''fiat''''' - , the Soviets artificially inflated the worth of their currency sixty-fold, but could only really enforce this where the Russian writ ran - the Warsaw Pact states, North Korea, Cuba, and any luckless visitors to the USSR who had to exchange at the official rate. When you know what you're looking for, Borogravian money in {{MR}} is a fiat currency - worth its face value only where this can be enforced, and because the Duchess has decreed it to be so. Fiat currencies are usually the last brute-force method of maintaining some sort of economic stability and staving off final collapse when all else has failed, or an economy has been fatally wounded by internal collapse, prolonged war, or consistently faulty economic assumptions. Regard modern Zimbabwe, inter-war Germany, or Nazi Germany in the last couple of years of WW2, having unaccountably made all its neighbours into implacable enemies and needing to pay the fabulous costs of total war.) <br />
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In {{MAA}}, the cost of a month's education at the Spiteful Sisters of [[Seven-Handed Sek]] Charity School is given as $AM2.00. Therefore yearly fees at a typical school - i.e., one accessible to ordinary people &ndash; might be no more than $AM24 per year.<br />
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===Entertainment===<br />
What do you do with your free time?<br />
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A box at the opera is $AM50 per performance, but the stalls will be cheaper. <br />
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In {{MM}} the [[Chief Cashier]] says that a penny can buy you a seat at the theatre for a hour. It is unknown what theatre he means, or whether he's just being poetic.<br />
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Entry to the [[Odium]] to watch {{MP}} cost 5p, later increased to 10p. On a par with the music hall?<br />
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A [[Twopenny Upright]] is slang for a very basic service from a Seamstress, although it is very likely that while the term remains in current slang, the basic service costs a little bit more than that. Perhaps a broad-minded researcher could locate a price list?<br />
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Mrs [[Evadne Cake]] provides two levels of mediumistic intercession with the future and the next world. Tenpence buys you what she sees. A dollar pays for what actually happens.<br />
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===Savings?=== <br />
Or would saving in a "funeral club" count as a deduction prior to receiving bulk residue of pay? <br />
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We now know from {{MM}} that the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]] offers interest on small bank accounts, which must over time add to sources of income for account-holders. <br />
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===[[Public transportation|Travel]]===<br />
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A cab fare from the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]] to [[Elm Street]] is eleven pence. ({{MM}}) It is informally expected a horse cab driver be tipped no less than 10%. ({{CAM}}) <br />
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The coach fare from [[Ankh-Morpork]] to [[Lancre]] is $AM50 ($AM40 is a [[Bandits' Guild]] surcharge). ({{LL}})<br />
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And now, of course, there are the horse omnibuses, the troll cars from {{UA}}, and golem horses from {{SN}} to price into the picture!<br />
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A wider picture is provided in {{CAM}}: the short route from Sator Square to Dolly Sisters is charged at 2p. It is not unreasonable to suggest multiples of 2p are charged for progressively longer distances. <br />
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The night bus from Ankh-Morpork to Sto Lat charges a single fare of two dollars fifty pence.<br />
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Troll taxis (effectively a sedan chair attached to the back of a troll) are charged at approximately double the cost of a bus journey over a comparable distance, although fares into the Shades are surcharged because of the graffiti problem. {{CAM}}<br />
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===Miscellaneous===<br />
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We learn from the [[Yeti|yeti]]-hunters in {{TOT}} that the feet alone of a Yeti can be resold, for certain Agatean medical preparations, for $AM1,000. The pelt is worth an additional $AM900.<br />
<br />
The accepted salary threshold, below which a person is deemed too impecunious to be able to afford the sort of personalised, indeed bespoke, service, offered by the [[Assassins' Guild]], is $AM10,000. Those earning below this yearly income may sometimes come to the notice of the Guild, but many assassins won't bother getting out of bed for small change of this nature. They are certainly thought of as only just being able to afford the Guild's services, if their income is at, or only just exceeds, this level.<br />
<br />
In fairness, the cheapest inhumation on the Guild books is the contract out on Corporal [[Nobby Nobbs]] of the Watch. Including the mandatory 50% Guild Tax, this stands at $AM1.00. (This is only nominal, as no self-respecting Assassin would work for so little, especially if it involves a high risk of being shouted at by Sam Vimes.)<br />
<br />
Lord [[de Worde]] believed that anyone earning less than $1,000 per year was by inference a member of the criminal classes. <br />
<br />
In {{J}}, the cost of a [[Dis-organiser]], being as it is the product of advanced technomancy, is $300.<br />
<br />
In {{TT}}, Otto Chriek expresses a desire for the top-of-the-range Agatean iconograph, which has the equivalent of an SLR lens (the demon has a telescopic seat allowing him to get right up close for ''really'' fine detail), together with other buzzers and flashing lights. This is $AM780.<br />
<br />
The perfume from [[Quirm]], Cedar Fragrance Pour Hommes, is available for AM$15 a pop.<br />
<br />
==Information to be added==<br />
<br />
We should diligently extract examples of given wages and costs from the books, list them under expenditure and income, and see if they stack up.--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 12:02, 7 November 2007 (CET)<br />
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[[Category: Discworld culture]]<br />
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|photo= <br />
|date= November 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn= 0552147680<br />
|pages= 319<br />
<br />
|series= Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters= [[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations= yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|photo= <br />
|date= November 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn= 0552147680<br />
|pages= 319<br />
<br />
|series= Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters= [[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations= yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*Slicer Gadley<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
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[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
[[de:Buch:Die volle Wahrheit]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Mr_Bendy&diff=17852Mr Bendy2013-10-19T15:32:03Z<p>EinFritz: Character data enhanced (a little)</p>
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|title= Mr Bendy<br />
|photo= Bendy.jpg|Mr Bendy, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]]<br />
<br />
|name= Mr. Bendy<br />
|age= <br />
|race= <br />
|occupation= Obituarist of the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]]<br />
|appearance= <br />
|residence= <br />
|death= Yes<br />
|parents= <br />
|relatives= <br />
|children= <br />
|marital status= <br />
|books=<br />
|cameos= {{TT}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
Mr Bendy works on [[Ankh-Morpork Times|The Times]] as an obituarist. As such he is uniquely qualified because he is himself dead. He was one of those people with such an overriding need to stay around (generally the extremely anally retentive) that he came back to non-life as a [[Zombies|zombie]]. The first obituary he submitted to The Times was, in fact, his own.<br />
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{{Stub}}<br />
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:<br />
[[category:Discworld characters|Bendy, Mr]]<br />
[[Category:Undead characters|Bendy, Mr]]<br />
[[de:Krumm]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Talk:Mr_Hong&diff=17851Talk:Mr Hong2013-10-19T15:22:33Z<p>EinFritz: </p>
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<div>A complete rewrite might be in order here, rather than just copying the section of [[Three Jolly Luck]], but creating a sentence fragment doesn't seem to help. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 21:44, 9 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
:I've done my best, for what it's worth. But the problem remains that Mr. Hong and his fish bar appear only in unison. As far as I see it, to differentiate the articles a little, we should put all new details on the Three Jolly Luck site and all references to the books on this page.--[[User:EinFritz|EinFritz]] ([[User talk:EinFritz|talk]]) 14:28, 19 October 2013 (GMT)<br />
<br />
It's a rotten shame we couldn't save the history. When I wrote Three Jolly Luck I didn't think Mr Hong needed a separate article since that was all we knew about him. Someone (lost in the history) just copied a chunk of the original over here; I think the mentioned rewrite was done sometime since 2009. How does putting more of it in here differentiate them? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 15:01, 19 October 2013 (GMT)<br />
:Yes, shame on that. My idea was also half-baked; perhaps the best would be to put all information on one of the two pages and redirect from the other... But I don't know how many links to Mr Hong exist side-by-side by links to Three Jolly Luck - and what can be done about that?--[[User:EinFritz|EinFritz]] ([[User talk:EinFritz|talk]]) 15:22, 19 October 2013 (GMT)</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Book:The_Truth&diff=17850Book:The Truth2013-10-19T15:15:28Z<p>EinFritz: /* Locations */ Thaumatological Park</p>
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|photo= <br />
|date= November 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn= 0552147680<br />
|pages= 319<br />
<br />
|series= Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters= [[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations= yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
***[[Thaumatological Park]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
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[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
[[de:Buch:Die volle Wahrheit]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Guild_of_Architects&diff=17849Guild of Architects2013-10-19T15:13:01Z<p>EinFritz: Category Guilds</p>
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<div>The [[Guilds of Ankh-Morpork|Guild]] defending the interests of the city's building designers. An institution which hands out awards and prizes for innovative building design.<br />
<br />
''"Innovative",'' in this context, might come from the same lexicon as ''"daring"'' or ''"novel"'' to a career civil servant: it denotes "totally untried and untested, and we reserve judgement on how soon that flat roof is going to leak or those flimsy windows are going to fall out in a light breeze. Even though the building might end up as totally unfit for the purpose, by the time anyone notices we can put it down to normal structural deterioration. Or else we can make veiled suggestions that because the design was so new and innovative, the fault is really with the builders who put it up, or the buyer who uses the building. It's so radical a concept that they aren't able to look after it properly. Either way, it's not ''our'' fault if they persist in using it. In any case, anyone worrying about such petty things as whether or not the roof leaks on an award-winning building is self-evidently not a creative professional, and we don't need to waste any breath on non-creative garbage of that sort."<br />
<br />
It is entirely possible that [[Bergholt Stuttley Johnson|"Bloody Stupid" Johnson]] was a member.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Other prominent architects mentioned in the Discworld books ==<br />
<br />
* the [[Ptaclusp]] family of [[Djelibeybi]]<br />
* [[Goldeneyes Silverhand Dactylos ]]<br />
<br />
== Buildings which actually have won major architectural awards in the Discworld and other books ==<br />
<br />
* the [[Ankh-Morpork Mint]]<br />
* the [[Joshua N'Clement]] building<br />
* the [[High Energy Magic]] building at [[UU]], where the flat roofs won special mention, and the windows have barely begun to let in water yet...<br />
<br />
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:<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses|Architects,Guild of]]<br />
[[Category:Guilds|Architects,Guild of]]<br />
[[de:Architektengilde]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Book:The_Truth&diff=17846Book:The Truth2013-10-19T14:48:51Z<p>EinFritz: /* Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera */ Guild of Towncriers</p>
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|photo= <br />
|date= November 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn= 0552147680<br />
|pages= 319<br />
<br />
|series= Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters= [[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations= yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*Guild of Towncriers (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
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[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
[[de:Buch:Die volle Wahrheit]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Book:The_Truth&diff=17845Book:The Truth2013-10-19T14:47:27Z<p>EinFritz: /* Cameos and Mentions */ Two more</p>
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|photo= <br />
|date= November 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn= 0552147680<br />
|pages= 319<br />
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|series= Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters= [[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations= yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
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==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
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William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
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==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
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Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
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Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
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In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
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While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
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De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
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==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
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The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
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*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
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The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
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==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*Brezock the Babarian (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Moltin the Snatcher (Mentioned)<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
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[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
[[de:Buch:Die volle Wahrheit]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Talk:Mr_Hong&diff=17844Talk:Mr Hong2013-10-19T14:28:00Z<p>EinFritz: Mr. Hong and his fish bar are closely coupled...</p>
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<div>A complete rewrite might be in order here, rather than just copying the section of [[Three Jolly Luck]], but creating a sentence fragment doesn't seem to help. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 21:44, 9 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
:I've done my best, for what it's worth. But the problem remains that Mr. Hong and his fish bar appear only in unison. As far as I see it, to differentiate the articles a little, we should put all new details on the Three Jolly Luck site and all references to the books on this page.--[[User:EinFritz|EinFritz]] ([[User talk:EinFritz|talk]]) 14:28, 19 October 2013 (GMT)</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Three_Jolly_Luck&diff=17843Three Jolly Luck2013-10-19T14:18:30Z<p>EinFritz: Lunar eclipse and winter solistice</p>
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<div>[[Category: Ankh-Morpork Businesses]]<br />
The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar was not one of [[Ankh-Morpork|Ankh-Morpork's]] most successful businesses, nor among the longest-established. In fact, it didn't last through its grand opening. It remains famous as an example and warning of the necessity, in Ankh-Morpork, of getting not only one's ducks in a row before beginning any enterprise, but one's rocs and phoenixes as well. (1)<br />
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An [[Agatean Empire|Agatean]] gentleman remembered only as [[Mr Hong]] chose to set up the shop on the site of a former fish-god temple in [[Dagon Street]] and opened on the night of a full moon and a lunar eclipse at the winter solistice. Reports of what happened then are as varied and contradictory as usual from a crowd of Morporkian witnesses (2), but certainly the shop disappeared, or most of it, along with Mr Hong, or most of him. As nearly as could be determined, he left behind one kidney and half an earhole.<br />
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The [[Havelock Vetinari|Patrician's]] family motto suggests letting well enough alone, but he takes a close and wary interest in new projects. Sometimes he cites Mr. Hong to explain his caution.<br />
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(1) and, of course, naming a restaurant after [[The Lady]] was probably a bad idea.<BR><br />
(2) which included [[Mustrum Ridcully]], who summarised events as "crack-crack-gristle-AAAARGH!"<br />
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==Annotation==<br />
For the connection between a fish shop and Dagon street, see the annotation [[Dagon Street|there]].<br />
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[[de:Dreimal gl&uuml;cklicher Fischimbiss]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Mr_Hong&diff=17842Mr Hong2013-10-19T14:14:37Z<p>EinFritz: Typo</p>
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<div>This agetean gentleman has grown to become the Ankh-Morpork equivalent of a "cautionary urban legend", with several mentions throughout the various books ({{MAA}}, {{J}}, {{TT}}) admonishing people to "remember what happened to Mr. Hong". You see, it wasn't Mr. Hongs luckiest day when he decided that the night of the winter solstice in combination with a full moon and a lunar eclipse would be the ideal point in time and the site of a former fish-god temple in [[Dagon Street]] the ideal point in space to open his [[Three Jolly Luck|Three Jolly Luck Take-Away Fish Bar]] - see there for further details.<br />
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:<br />
[[Category:Discworld characters|Hong,Mr]]<br />
[[de:Herr Hong]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Mr_Hong&diff=17841Mr Hong2013-10-19T14:13:45Z<p>EinFritz: Rewritten and shortened</p>
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<div>This agetean gentleman has grown to become the Ankh-Morpork equivalent of a "cautionary urban legend", with several mentions throughout the various books ({{MAA}}, {{J}}, {{TT}}) admonishing people to "remember what happened to Mr. Hong". You see, it wasn't Mr. Hongs luckiest day when he decided that the night of the winter solstice in combination with a full moon and a lunar eclipse would be the ideal point in time and on the site of a former fish-god temple in [[Dagon Street]] the ideal point in space to open his [[Three Jolly Luck|Three Jolly Luck Take-Away Fish Bar]] - see there for further details.<br />
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:<br />
[[Category:Discworld characters|Hong,Mr]]<br />
[[de:Herr Hong]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Troll_drugs&diff=17840Troll drugs2013-10-19T07:32:48Z<p>EinFritz: Honk (see The Truth)</p>
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<div>The classic illegal stimulant for [[trolls]] has been [[Slab]], ammonium chloride cut with radium. However, there are a number of other less common and much more dangerous substances. Most, if not all of them, begin with an "s", but there are a few exceptions:<br />
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* [[Crystal Slam]]<br />
* [[Scrape]]<br />
* [[Slab]]<br />
* Sleek<br />
* Slice<br />
* [[Slide]]<br />
* Sliver<br />
* Slump<br />
* Slunkie<br />
* Slurp<br />
* Honk<br />
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As for ''why'' the names of most troll drugs begin with an "s" &ndash; it make dem easier to remember. <br />
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By the time of {{T!}}, it becomes apparent that a new drug named Slide has began to replace the dominance of Slab; this causes trolls to go on the rampage and sounds somewhat similar to crack cocaine. The troll in question thinks that he can take on the world. He thinks he has no need for sleep, or food, or drink, and soon enough, he has no need for life. [[Chrysoprase]] even claims its introduction has driven him to get out of the drug distribution business altogether.<br />
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A similar drug called Crystal Slam is mentioned in {{SN}}. It's so dangerous that it kills trolls after a few uses. As a result of this, [[Mr Shine|the Diamond King of Trolls]] has stamped down hard on it's usage: production is illegal throughout the entire world, and it's a hanging offence to try to sell it in any troll city (including, of course, [[Ankh-Morpork]]).<br />
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[[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]]'s position on recreational chemicals for everyone in general and trolls in particular is expressed also in ''Snuff'':<br />
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<blockquote>''‘You know my position, [[Drumknott]]. I have no particular objection to people taking substances that make them feel better, or more contented or, for that matter, see little dancing purple fairies &ndash; or even their god if it comes to that. It’s their brain, after all, and society can have no claim on it, providing they’re not operating heavy machinery at the time. However, to sell drugs to trolls that actually make their heads explode is simply murder, the capital crime. I am glad to say that [[Commander Vimes]] fully agrees with me on this issue.’''</blockquote><br />
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[[Category:Discworld concepts]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Mr_Hong&diff=17839Mr Hong2013-10-19T07:14:23Z<p>EinFritz: Lunar eclipse</p>
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<div>An Agatean gentleman remembered only as '''Mr. Hong''' chose to set up the [[Three Jolly Luck]] Take-Away Fish Bar on the site of a former fish-god temple in [[Dagon Street]] and opened on the night of the winter solstice which also happened to be a full moon (see {{MAA}}) ''and'' a lunar eclipse ({{TT}}). Reports of what happened then are as varied and contradictory as usual from a crowd of Morporkian witnesses, (which included [[Mustrum Ridcully]], who summarised events as "crack-crack-gristle-AAAARGH!") but certainly the shop disappeared, or most of it, along with Mr Hong, or most of him. As nearly as could be determined, he left behind one kidney and half an earhole.<br />
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Since then, Mr. Hong has grown to become the Ankh-Morpork equivalent of a "cautionary urban legend", with several mentions throughout the various books admonishing people to "remember what happened to Mr. Hong."<br />
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:<br />
[[Category:Discworld characters|Hong,Mr]]<br />
[[de:Herr Hong]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Assassins%27_Guild&diff=17833Assassins' Guild2013-10-18T20:02:03Z<p>EinFritz: /* Members of the Guild of Assassins */ fixed broken link</p>
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<div>{{spoilersfor|''[[Book:Men at Arms|Men at Arms]]''}}<br />
[[Image:Ass02.png|left|200px]]<br />
Motto: ''NIL MORTIFI, SINE LVCRE''<br />
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''No killing without pay''<br />
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This is one of the most powerful among the [[Guilds of Ankh-Morpork]]. The current head of the Assassins' Guild is [[Lord Downey]], who took over after his predecessor, [[Cruces|Dr. Cruces]], was killed by [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] during the events of [[Book:Men at Arms|Men At Arms]]. Its Guildhall is topped with a weathervane like a silhouetted assassin poised to inhume the wind.<br />
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The traditional Assassins' hand signal is that of two fingers pressed against a thumb - the otherwise-universal sign for money. Without which, of course, assassination wouldn't take place. They do not murder indiscriminately, as that would be rank bad form. No, no, they are not common killers. They would take that most ill, should you be rash enough to suggest it. No, they are merely gentlemen who, for a consideration, may see their way clear to smoothing some of life's problems for other gentlemen. But in a highly democratic way: Their definition of gentlemen includes everyone - at least everyone with enough money to pay for the specific contract. Ths includes [[Zombies]] who want to settle the score with their murderers, and even the [[Auditors]]. <br />
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Their light and airy Guild house is adjacent to the [[Fools' Guild]] house (see {{MAA}}). Their school is noted for giving one of the best educations you can have. Usually children of high-standing noble families attend the Assassins' school. The school's reputation even reaches into far-off countries. For example, [[71-hour Ahmed]] from [[Klatch]] admitted that he had trained at, and been licensed by, the Guild (see {{J}}), as was King [[Pteppicymon XXVIII]] of [[Djelibeybi]]. <br />
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However, there is always a place for a scholarship boy, partly out of a spirit of ''noblesse oblige'', but mainly because "''any commoner showing an uncommon aptitude for the profession had better bloody well be where ''we'' can see him''." This is, after all, the way the upper classes have traditionally dealt with potentially troublesome but talented outsiders: by absorbing them into the privileged upper class, rather than risk having them outside leading a revolution. Scholarship pupils include [[Inigo Skimmer]], Professor [[Cranberry]], and possibly [[Zlorf Flannelfoot]], who rose all the way to become Guild President. <br />
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The Guild is known to hold a number of inter-house competitions within the Guild School including the [[Wilkinson Cup]].<br />
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Scholarship pupils, ie Assassins who are not fortunate enough to be backed by upscale familes or to have an independent income, are as often as not employed by the [[Patrician]] as part of a select and shadowy body of employees known as [[Dark Clerk]]s.<br />
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The Assassins have a high moral standard, in their own terms. They scrupulously stick to the rules of their Guild. Those rules include a prohibition of killing without a contract or fee. If you did, you would be a common murderer, not an ''Assassin'' (note the capitalization).<br />
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This rule has been broken by the student assassin [[Jonathan Teatime]] (appears in {{H}}). He seemed to kill for the mere pleasure of it, a fact that made him a dangerous criminal, even by Assassins' standards. If it were not for the events of ''Hogfather'', he may have had to be disposed of in a discreet manner by his fellows. <br />
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Assassins should wear black, a rule that has been challenged by [[Havelock Vetinari]], while he was at the Assassins' school himself. He outdid all the others by wearing various shades of grey and green to blend better into the shadows. However, Vetinari is said to have actually ''failed'' his first attempt at the exam in Stealth and Concealment, simply because the adjudicating senior Assassin thought he hadn't bothered to turn up. Vetinari re-sat the exam, taking care to strive for something less than 100% effectiveness, and passed with a high mark. Others who wore black only were not as effective. See the Hon. [[John Bleedwell]].<br />
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Another, not widely advertised, rule says that the unhumed-to-be should be told who had sent the Assassin, and who the Assassin was. This rule was obeyed by the young Lord Vetinari, who inhumed Lord [[Winder]].<br />
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Only two people have been taken off their scale of fees so far. No assassination contract will be accepted either for Lord Vetinari, nor for Commander [[Samuel Vimes]]. The reasons are that even the Assassins think that Vetinari alive is much less a threat than a dead Vetinari, as you can never be sure whether he will stay dead. As for Sam Vimes, multiple assassinations have been planned, attempted and failed. He seems to be too ingenious in outwitting and ruining every attempt, and the assassins have finally given up on him, at least for the time being. A third, ostensibly active, contract is more of an embarrassment: it is known that the Guild has an open contract on Corporal "Nobby" Nobbs of the City Watch. This has not been retracted, but is for such a derisorily small amount of money (fivepence) that no self-respecting Guild member would ever accept it. It is perhaps there as a joke of some kind, and in any case Commander Vimes would get very ''intense'' if ever the Assasins went after one of his men. <br />
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The Guild has an impressive library, known as the Dark library, where their section on famous assassinations, weaponry and the methodology of inhumation is rumoured to be greater than even that of the Library at [[Unseen University]]. The Guild also takes great pride in their history of inhumations. They maintain a long gallery of famous people the Guild has inhumed, with small silver nameplates modestly telling which assassin had the privilege of inhuming them. It is considered the highest honor for an assassin to have that small, silver nameplate discreetly placed near their famous inhumations. There is also a museum showing various artefacts that have helped certain people to an earlier grave than they had anticipated. The fabled [[gonne]] was kept here until it was stolen by [[Edward d'Eath]].<br />
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Lord Downey and Lord Vetinari were old enemies during their school years (see {{NW}}).<br />
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Most of the gentlemen, and at least one woman, from the noble family [[Selachii]] are trained and licensed Assassins.<br />
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Sam Vimes hates them with a passion. Ironically, he (thanks to his marriage to Sybil) holds the deed to the land on which the Assassins' Guild rests.<br />
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==Masters of the Guild of Assassins==<br />
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*Sir [[Gyles de Munforte]] (Founder)<br />
*Dr Gulliaume de Chacal (First Head Master)<br />
* [[Follett|Dr. Follett]] (in {{NW}})<br />
* [[Zlorf Flannelfoot]] (in {{COM}})<br />
* [[Cruces|Dr. Cruces]] (until the events of {{MAA}})<br />
* [[Lord Downey]] (in various books since {{MAA}})<br />
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<br />
==Members of the Guild of Assassins==<br />
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Important Assassins who have been mentioned in the Discworld books include:<br />
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* Lord [[Havelock Vetinari]] Holding the Title 'Provost of Assassins' and the following degrees: DMAP, DM, DGS, MA, MPE, MASc, MIDD, BScI & DiPE (appears in various books)<br />
* [[Pteppicymon XXVIII]] (in {{P}})<br />
* [[71-hour Ahmed]] (in {{J}})<br />
* [[Jonathan Teatime]] (in {{H}})<br />
* [[Inigo Skimmer]] (in {{TFE}})<br />
* "Professor" [[Cranberry]] (not a genuinely conferred title - in {{MM}})<br />
* Mr [[Winvoe]], Guild Treasurer, encountered in {{H}}<br />
* Lord [[Robert Selachii]], thwarted in {{SM}}<br />
* Señor [[Miguel Portijo]], Selachii's co-thwartee and assistant<br />
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Other Assassins mentioned in the books, as cameos or non-speaking characters:-<br />
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* [[Grinjo]] (in {{COM}})<br />
* [[Eustace Bassingly-Gore]]<br />
* Sir [[Richard Liddleley]]<br />
* Sir [[Bernard Selachii]]<br />
* [[Urmond]] (in {{COM}})<br />
* [[Vyrt]] (mentioned in {{P}})<br />
* [[Remora Selachii]]<br />
* [[Arachne]], surname unknown, a graduate with a passion for wildlife. Well, certain sorts, anyway. <br />
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Named student Assassins:<br />
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*[[Cheesewright]]<br />
*[[Chidder]]<br />
*[[Fliemoe]]<br />
* Arthur [[Ludorum]]<br />
* Ludo [[Ludorum]]<br />
* [[Snoxall]]<br />
* [[Jocasta Wiggs]]<br />
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Former pupils who left without Taking Black:<br />
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* [[Cosmo Lavish]]<br />
* [[Sendivoge]]<br />
* [[Findthee Swing]]<br />
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==Guild Tutors==<br />
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Current College Tutors, as listed in [[Book:Discworld's Assassins' Guild Diary 2000|Assassins' Guild Diary]]<br />
* Lord [[Downey]], MA (Master of Assassins, Head Tutor & Guild President)<br />
* Mr [[Mericet]], DMAP, MA, BScI (Under Master, teaches [[Strategy and Poison Theory]]) <br />
* The Extremely Reverend Dr [[A-Pox-Upon-Their-Houses Jenkins]], DGS (Religious Studies/Guild Chaplin)<br />
* Mr Moody, BW (Personal Grooming)<br />
* Baron Strifenkanen, DMAP (Applied Pathology)<br />
* [[de Yoyo|Kompt de Yoyo]], DM, DL ([[Modern Languages and Music]])<br />
* Dr [[Von Ubersetzer]], DL (Ancient Languages)<br />
* M. de Balourd, MIDD (Dance and Deportment)<br />
* Mme les [[Deux-Epees]], MA, DiPE (Fencing and Edged Weapons) <br />
* Mr Linbury-Court, MA (History)<br />
* Mr [[Lamister]]<br />
* Mr [[Bradlofrudd]], DiPE (Llamedos) (Physical Education)<br />
* Miss [[Alice Band|Band]], DiPE (Climbing, Traps, Locks)<br />
* Miss [[Smith-Rhodes]] (Domestic Science and Organic Poisons)<br />
* Professor [[Stone]], MASc (Alchemy and Metalwork)<br />
* Lady [[T'malia|T'Malia]], MA, MPE, BScI ([[Political Expediency]])<br />
* Mr [[Graumunchen]], MA (Geography)<br />
* Mr Schotter, MS (Mathematics)<br />
* Mr [[Grunworth Nivor|Nivor]], MA, BScI (Traps & Advanced Ambush)<br />
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==Guild Staff & Servants==<br />
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The guild has a dedicated staff performing all the vital roles required by any large organisation. While not assassins themselves, they have had years of experience within the guild, and young students would be unwise to unset any of them.<br />
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* the [[Chief Armourer]] (currently vacant)<br />
*Mr Carter, MGB - Chief Butler<br />
*Mr [[Winvoe]], MGAU - Bursar <br />
*Mrs Collar - Bedder<br />
*Guild [[Doctor]] (at the time of {{P}}). <br />
*Sister Lister, SSSHS - Matron<br />
*Mr Robey - Scullion<br />
*Mr Bracegirdle - Porter<br />
*Mr [[Maroon]] - Porter<br />
*Mr [[Stippler]] - Porter<br />
*Mr Bearhugger - Head Brewer<br />
*Monsieur Insignes-Forvant, FGC - Chef<br />
*Taster (currently vacant)<br />
*Mr [[Wussie Staid]] - Janitor<br />
*[[Washable Topsy]] - laundress<br />
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==School Houses==<br />
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Within the Guild, the school is broken into Houses, each with a House Tutor. A list follows of these Houses and their Heads of House:<br />
* [[Viper House]] (Mr [[Grunworth Nivor|Nivor]])<br />
* [[Scorpion House]] (Lady [[T'malia]])<br />
* [[Tump House]] (Miss [[Alice Band]])<br />
* Broken Moons House (Mr Moody)<br />
* Raguineau's (Baron Strifenkanan)<br />
* [[Pernypopax Dampier House]] (Professor [[Stone]])<br />
* Cobra House (Mr [[Mericet]])<br />
* [[Wigblock Prior]] ([[Kompt de Yoyo]])<br />
* [[B2 House]] [day pupils] (Dr [[von Ubersetzer]])<br />
* [[C1 House]] [day pupils] (Dr Perdore)<br />
* [[Mykkim House]] (Mr Linbury-Court)<br />
* [[Mrs Beddowe's House]] (M. le Balourd)<br />
* [[Tree Frog House]] [day pupils] (Mr [[Bradlofrudd]])<br />
* [[Black Widow House]] [girls] (Mme les [[Deux-Epées]])<br />
* [[Welcome Soap House]] (Mr [[Graumunchen]])<br />
* [[Raven House]] (Miss [[Smith-Rhodes]])<br />
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''"The Assassins' Guild School was created by taking a classic British public school and turning all the knobs up past eleven, especiially the one marked 'violence'"'' (Terry Pratchett, quoted in {{AOD}})<br />
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== School Uniform ==<br />
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As with educational establishments all over the Multiverse, the initial uniform handed out to pupils of eleven, twelve and thirteen is issued out of a sadistic desire to impress on the wearer exactly how lowly an insect they are in God's garden, and to instill in the wearer, entirely of his or her own volition, a desire to succeed and get to the point where the hated rags may be discarded in favour of something with at least the ''potential'' to carry a bit more style. <br />
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Thus we have:-<br />
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''Girls, eleven-thirteen'': the Guild School stipulates white blouse, shapeless; a black gymslip or pinafore; black wooly stockings or tights (sixty to eighty denier) sensible flat shoes without adornment, and a round black hat known as the Blonker. The Guild Crest must be visibly apparent at the right breast or lapel. <br />
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''Boys, eleven - thirteen'':- must adopt the New Bod uniform of a midnight blue frock coat and knee britches, worn with cream waistcoat and ruffled shirt along with a black tricorn hat of beaver pelt. Scholarship and Charity boys will be distinguished at all times by wearing white duck trousers as well as the white scholars' gown. <br />
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Both sexes Take Black in the third year and are allowed to wear black clothing. <br />
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==Businesses==<br />
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The Guild runs a rather specialised home insurance service: if someone breaks into a house insured by the Guild, an automatic contract is put out on their lives. Houses insured by the guild displays a Guild seal. It is not clear what issues of professional courtesy and [[demarcation]] this raises with the [[Thieves' Guild]]. It might be assumed that this is regarded as an inter-Guild courtesy, if the break-in were to be carried out by unlicenced Thieves; should the Guild take out a contract on a licenced Thieves' Guild member merely because that Thief is acting in accordance with their own Guild rights and privileges, however, such a contract might be on more shaky ground. Besides, the Thieves' Guild offer their own similar insurance policies to householders - does this breach demarcation? <br />
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One such house is the [[De Worde|De Worde's]] house as mentioned in {{TT}}.<br />
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As well as inhumations and insurance, the Guild is also known to offer bodyguarding and security consultancy services - ie, the exact opposite to inhumation. But the core business activity remains what it always was - evidenced by the [[Inhumation Bell]] ringing at least once every day.<br />
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==Degrees==<br />
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The following degrees are awarded by the Guild and associate guilds:<br />
*MA Master Assassins<br />
*MPE Master of Political Expediency<br />
*BScI Bachelor of the Science of Inhumation<br />
*DiHI Diploma of Homicidal Insanity<br />
*DL Doctor of Languages<br />
*MIDD Member of the Institute of Dance & Deportment<br />
*DiPE Diploma in Physical Education<br />
*MASc Master of Alchemical Science<br />
*DMAP Doctor of Medicine & Applied Pathology <br />
*BW Bachelor of Wig-making<br />
*DM Doctor of Music<br />
*MS Master of Sums<br />
*DGS Doctor of God Studies<br />
*SSSHS Spiteful Sisters of Seven-Handed [[Sek]]<br />
*MGAU Member of the Guild of Accountants and Usurers<br />
*MGB Member of the Guild of Butlers<br />
*FGC Fellow of the Guild of Chefs<br />
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==Open Commissions==<br />
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The Guild has the following open commissions, several of which have claimed the lives of aspiring assassins, others have not been taken up, or the 'client' cannot be located:<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Client !! Fee !! Commission<br />
|-<br />
| The [[Hogfather]] || AM$3,000,000 || Has expired (original contract called for the inhumation to occur within 3 days) The contract was placed by the [[Auditors of Reality]]. They did not paid in coin as such, using instead blank gold discs. This challenging contract was given to [[Jonathan Teatime]]. His body was never found.<br />
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|-<br />
| Lord [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] || AM$1,000,000 || Officially unlisted. The Patrician has now been taken off the register in recognition that his death would be damaging to the interests of both the city and the Guild. In the days when he was a viable target Lord Vetinari accepted attempts on his life with good grace, understanding that it was a necessary part of the political process. However, he also held the view that ''the dog is only allowed one bite at the apple'' and the Assassins that attempted this commission were never seen again.<br />
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|-<br />
| [[Rincewind]] the Wizard || AM$950,000 || Though he is not a violent man, Rincewind is a born survivor. Assassins attempting this contract have [[The Lady|suffered unfortunate mishaps]]; some were hit by falling tiles, struck by lightning, or waylaid and eaten by Rincewind's [[The Luggage|traveling accessory]].<br />
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|-<br />
| The Duke of Ankh, Sir [[Samuel Vimes]] || AM$940,000 and rising || Numerous commissions were placed upon the commander of the Watch, often by nobles such as the [[Rust]] and [[Selachii]] families. [[Eustace Bassingly-Gore]], Sir [[Richard Liddeley]] and [[Jocasta Wiggs|Wiggs Sr]] have all attempted to inhume the commander, only to find too late that he plays not by any rules, but to win. He also has a cunning and inventive mind when it comes to traps. This lesson is periodically reinforced by [[Jocasta Wiggs|unpleasant but non-lethal things which seem to happen to student Assassins sent on reconnaissance missions]]. He is now officially unlisted, but Vimes has since has appealed to have this overturned.<br />
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|-<br />
| [[Reacher Gilt]] || A very large, undisclosed sum. || This was placed by the bankers of Ankh following his actions bankrupting one of their number, and threatening the metaphorical pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Those who guard said gold do not like those who get in the way of the sun. <br />
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|-<br />
| [[Moist von Lipwig]] || AM$100,000 || Only to be fulfilled if Moist failed in the duty of care for [[Mr Fusspot]] left to him by [[Topsy Lavish|Mrs Lavish]].<br />
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|-<br />
| [[The Duck Man]] || AM$132,000 || It is unknown who has placed this contract, and so far all assassins have been too curious about the strange nature of the target to accept.<br />
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|-<br />
| [[The Band With Rocks In]] (Imp y Celyn, Glod, & Lias/Cliff) || Sum never disclosed || Mentioned in {{SM}}. Contract was taken out by the [[Musicians' Guild]] but no price referred to. The Assassins' Guild decided to no longer entertain the contract, and refunded the fee.<br />
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|-<br />
| [[Nobby Nobbs]] || AM$4.31 || Believed to have been placed as a joke by some of members of the Watch. Commander Vimes has let it be know that he 'will be upset' if this commission is carried out...<br />
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|-<br />
| [[Foul Ole Ron]] || One groat || No assassin would dream of killing someone for such a low sum. In any case Foul Ole Ron's Smell would prevent anyone getting closer that bow-shot range.<br />
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|-<br />
| [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]] || Tuppence || Price given by one Assassin (Lord Robert Selachii) to another (his apprentice) whilst pursuing Dibbler's associates, the Band With Rocks In, in {{SM}}. The response given was "It's certainly tempting..."<br />
|}<br />
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The highest commission earned at the time of {{H}} had been AM$750,000 - which had been a special familiy rate, including overnight guests.<br />
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==Annotation==<br />
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There is a continuity error here, or perhaps information is yet to be released, concerning the all-female Houses at the Assassins' Guild school. <br />
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The '''''{{AGD}}''''' and the '''''{{NDC}}''''' agree on the Houses of study, and on their housemasters/mistresses, as given above. These can be taken to be a consensus reality. However, in his notes to Kidby's artwork in '''''The Art of Discworld''''', Terry is very specific that there is also a Mantis House, newly established for female pupils, which has [[Alice Band]] as its resident Housemistress. <br />
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Naming a house after a female insect which kills and eats its mate would make sense in this context, especially as a replacement for the rather prosaic [[Tump House]] (apparently named after a district of the city, which was rather disappointing). But "Mantis House" is named only once, whereas Tump House gets several referents. There are, as yet, few women on the Guild faculty, so possibly Miss Band's assignment as housemistress was changed when Mantis House opened, and another faculty member now oversees Tump House.<br />
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[[de:Assassinengilde]]</div>EinFritzhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Book:The_Truth&diff=17832Book:The Truth2013-10-18T19:54:31Z<p>EinFritz: /* Concepts, devices, and ideas */ Guild of Engravers and Printers</p>
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|photo= <br />
|date= November 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn= 0552147680<br />
|pages= 319<br />
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|series= Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters= [[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations= yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
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==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
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William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
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==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
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Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
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Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
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In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
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While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
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De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
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==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
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The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
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*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
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The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
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==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, ideas, etcetera ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Guild of Engravers and Printers]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
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[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title= The Truth<br />
|photo= <br />
|date= November 2000<br />
|publisher= Doubleday<br />
|isbn= 0552147680<br />
|pages= 319<br />
<br />
|series= Ankh-Morpork Books<br />
|characters= [[William de Worde]]<br/>[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br/>[[Otto Chriek]]<br/>[[Mr. Tulip]]<br/>[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
|annotations= yes<br />
|notes= Book #25<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Blurb==<br />
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspaper]]. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life -- people who want him dead, a recovering [[vampires|vampire]] with a suicidal fascination for flash [[iconograph|photography]], some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.<br />
<br />
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...<br />
<br />
==Plot==<br />
At the start of the story, [[William de Worde]] has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an [[Ankh-Morpork]] newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] arrive in the city with a new invention: the printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind [[The Bucket]] in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]], encouraged by [[Lord Vetinari]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the New Firm ([[Mr. Pin]] and [[Mr. Tulip]], a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named [[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]], and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing [[Drumknott]] and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'.<br />
<br />
Aided by his new reporter [[Sacharissa Cripslock]] and [[vampire]] iconographer [[Otto Chriek]], De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the [[City Watch]] in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made a mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer [[Mr. Slant]] warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the [[Guild of Engravers and Printers]] have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the ''Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', full of totally unbelievable (even by [[Discworld]] standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.<br />
<br />
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, causing the New Firm to arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using "Dark Light", which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands Slant to increase their fee, and head back to their base at the De Worde house where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press.<br />
<br />
While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and starts a fire amongst the machinery. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement while boiling lead pours through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike. De Worde discovers a [[Dis-organiser]] and by listening through the imp's memory, discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy.<br />
<br />
De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away. He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting. The book ends after William and Sacharissa report over [[Captain Carrot]] saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before [[Death]] and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb.<br />
<br />
==Literature==<br />
One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: "How come there is always the same amount of news?"<br />
<br />
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as "red-top" in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage.<br />
<br />
*"Red-top papers: such as The ''Sun'', the ''News of the World'', the ''Sport'', the ''Daily Star'', et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The ''Daily Mirror'' used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was.<br />
<br />
The [[wiki:Watergate Scandal|Watergate Scandal]] is also referenced at several points:<br />
*The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate<br />
*The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the [[wiki:Committee to Re-Elect the President|Committee to Re-Elect the President]], although Vetinari is not elected<br />
*Gaspode's alias, "Deep Bone" comes from [[wiki:Deep Throat|Deep Throat]], the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press.<br />
*Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret<br />
*The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge. And of course the myriad ''"expletive deleted"'' euphemism of the Nixon transcripts finds its Discworld home in the frequent recourse to "[[-ing]]"....<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
===Main characters===<br />
*[[Otto Chriek]]<br />
*[[Sacharissa Cripslock]]<br />
*[[Gunilla Goodmountain]]<br />
*[[Mr. Pin]]<br />
*[[Mr. Tulip]]<br />
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]<br />
*[[William de Worde]]<br />
*[[de Worde|Lord de Worde]]<br />
*[[Slant|Mr Slant]]<br />
<br />
===Minor Characters===<br />
<br />
*[[Eucrasia Arcanum]]<br />
*[[Mr Bendy]]<br />
*[[Boddony]]<br />
*[[Canting Crew|The Canting Crew]]<br />
**[[Foul Ole Ron]]<br />
**[[Gaspode]]<br />
**[[Coffin Henry]]<br />
**[[The Duck Man]]<br />
**[[Altogether Andrews]]<br />
**[[Arnold Sideways]]<br />
*[[Ronald Carney]]<br />
*[[Charlie (The Truth)|Charlie]]<br />
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]<br />
*[[Rufus Drumknott]]<br />
*[[Gaspode]]<br />
*[[Harry King]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Rocky]]<br />
*[[Samuel Vimes]]<br />
*[[Angua von Überwald]]<br />
*[[Josia Wintler]]<br />
*[[Wuffles]]<br />
<br />
===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
<br />
*[[O'Biscuit]]<br />
*[[Bursar|The Bursar]]<br />
*[[Caslong]]<br />
*[[Fred Colon]]<br />
*[[Death of Rats]]<br />
*[[Detritus]]<br />
*[[Fettle Dodgast|Dr Fettle Dodgast]]<br />
*[[Downey|Lord Downey]]<br />
*[[Dozy]]<br />
*Constable [[Fiddyment]]<br />
*[[Gowdie]]<br />
*[[Igor|Watch Igor]]<br />
*[[Igor|Igor the barman at the Biers (not an actual Igor}]]<br />
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]<br />
*[[Keenside|Constable Keenside]]<br />
*[[Effie King]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]<br />
*Mr. [[Passmore]]<br />
*[[Hughnon Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]<br />
*[[Selachii|Lady Selachii]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Thunderaxe]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tilly|Miss Tilly]]<br />
*[[De Worde|Rupert de Worde]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance|Abattoirs Lane]]<br />
**[[Artificer Street]]<br />
**[[Biers]]<br />
**[[Brass Bridge]]<br />
**[[Broadway]]<br />
**[[Dolly Sisters]]<br />
**[[Eucrasia Arcanum|Mrs Eucrasia Arcanum's Lodging House for Respectable Working Men]]<br />
**[[Filigree Street]]<br />
**[[Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[The Bucket]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Times|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Times, Gleam Street]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Inquirer|Offices of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Gleam Street]]<br />
**[[Guild of Conjurors]]<br />
**[[Harry King|Harry King's Waste Reclamation Yard]]<br />
**[[Harga's House Of Ribs]] (mentioned)<br />
**[[Hobson's Livery Stable]]<br />
**[[Lobbin Clout|Lobbins Clout]]<br />
**[[Mended Drum]]<br />
**[[Misbegot Bridge]]<br />
**[[Nonesuch Street]]<br />
***[[De Worde|De Worde Town House]]<br />
**[[Patrician's Palace]]<br />
**[[Phedre Road]]<br />
**[[Le Poil du Chien]]<br />
**[[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Ankh-Morpork City Watch HQ, Psuedopolis Yard]]<br />
**[[Street of Small Gods]]<br />
***[[Ankh-Morpork Temple of Om]]<br />
**[[Thieves Guild]] (Mentioned)<br />
**[[Unreal Estate]]<br />
**[[Unseen University]]<br />
**[[Water Gate]]<br />
**[[Welcome Soap]]<br />
<br />
*[[Hugglestones]] (Mentioned)<br />
<br />
*[[The Desert|The Dark Desert]]<br />
<br />
==Sentient Species==<br />
<br />
*[[Dwarfs]]<br />
*[[Elves]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Gargoyles]]<br />
*[[Gnolls]]<br />
*[[Humans]]<br />
*[[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]]<br />
*[[Trolls]]<br />
*[[Undead]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Supernatural Entities==<br />
<br />
*[[Death]]<br />
*[[The gods|Gods]] (mentioned)<br />
<br />
==Creatures==<br />
<br />
*[[Dragon of Unhappiness]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Imps]]<br />
*[[Salamander]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels]]<br />
<br />
== Concepts, devices, and ideas ==<br />
<br />
*[[Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance]]<br />
*[[Bodrozvachski zhaltziet!]]<br />
*[[Clacks]]<br />
*[[Überwaldean land eels|Dark Light]]<br />
*[[Dis-organiser|Dis-organiser Mark II]]<br />
*[[Dried Frog Pills]]<br />
*[[Fung Shooey]]<br />
*[[Moving Pictures]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Music With Rocks In]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Potato|Orthodox Potato Cult]]<br />
*[[Three Jolly Luck|The Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on Dagon Street & the fate of Mr Hong]] (Mentioned)<br />
*[[Tosheroon]]<br />
*[[Unseen University Press]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-truth.html ''The Truth'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
<br />
{{series|before=The Fifth Elephant|series=Discworld|after=Thief of Time}}<br />
{{series|series=Ankh-Morpork|before=|after=Going Postal}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Discworld Series|Truth, The]]<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Truth, The]]<br />
[[de:Buch:Die volle Wahrheit]]</div>EinFritz