I've never spent so long on a Disc book, that's saying sth about how messed up this month has been. Which is also why I'm a bit unorganised in my thoughts on this one, cuz quite a lot of the pages are read half asleep and the climax got cut into several reads because I fell asleep ..... I almost have never done that before.

But I get the metaphor about Koom Valley. Let me just say again that the fantasy part of Discworld series is not the magic or the wizards or the species, it is how every species has got a tribe leader that is really civil and liberal and modern and progressive and wants the people to live better. It's unimaginable how a people like the dwarfs, trolls or humans could get such a person to be their political leader (well Vetinari probably assassinated his way up, so the others might have done so too).

Sam Vimes's family life is really enviable. I want a Sybil for myself. I don't think Pterry could do better than Night Watch about how Vimes guards the darkness inside himself. I feel the Summoning Dark is half like Soul Music, half the Beast. But I understand the constant watching, the guarding. The unable to trust yourself. Okay I'm off to read Where's My Cow?.