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Going Postal
I've just reread Pratchett's 'Going Postal'. Very few books can make me cry, but there's a point in this one that had me leaking tears both times I read it.
It's the bit that starts "Who will listen to the dead?" when Moist is sending the replacement clacks message. It builds so beautifully on the idea of the clacksmen keeping the names of the dead living in the system as messages that are forever repeated up and down the line.
It's my favourite of all Pratchett's books.
It's the bit that starts "Who will listen to the dead?" when Moist is sending the replacement clacks message. It builds so beautifully on the idea of the clacksmen keeping the names of the dead living in the system as messages that are forever repeated up and down the line.
It's my favourite of all Pratchett's books.