Famous for its wit and wisdom, the series offers countless quotable quotes on a variety of subjects. This is the 36th Discworld novel, the 5th in the Industrial Revolution series, and the 2nd to feature Moist von Lipwig. The late Sir Joshua Lavish and his slightly more recently late gerry, Topsy, have left the tfrry shares of the bank to a certain Mr. Assigned Mr. And, when life imitates art or art imitates life, as the case may bethings start to heat up. Throw in a past thought forgotten and a more ancient past forgotten by all but one leching ghost of a necromancer, and things are about to get a great deal more interesting for Mr. Moist von Lipwig. But, as former con-man Moist making money architecture terry pratchet quote Lipwig pratfhet learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. In fact lot of people want him dead.
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Moist von Lipwig is bored with his job as the Postmaster General of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office, which is running smoothly without any problems, so the Patrician tries to convince him to take over the Royal Bank and Royal Mint. Moist, content with his new lifestyle, refuses. She also makes sure that the city’s Assassins’ Guild will fulfill a contract on Moist if anything happens to the dog or if he does not do as her last will commands. Faced with no alternative, Moist tries to take over the bank and in doing so finds out that people do not trust banks much, that the production of money runs slowly and at a loss, and that people now use stamps which Moist introduced in Going Postal as currency rather than coins. His ambitious changes include making money that is not backed by gold but by the city itself. Unfortunately, neither the chief cashier Mr Bent, rumoured to be a vampire but actually something much worse nor the Lavish family are too happy with him and try to dispose of him. Cosmo Lavish tries to go one step further — he is, with the help of his servant, Heretofore , who steals Vetinari’s personal effects for a large fee , attempting to replace Vetinari by taking on his identity — with little success. However all the while, the reappearance of a character from von Lipwig’s past adds more pressure to his unfortunate scenario.
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She manages to bring them to Ankh-Morpork, and to everyone’s surprise the «four golden golems» turn out to be «four thousand golems» due to a translation error and so the city is at risk of being at war with other cities who might find an army of 4, golems threatening. Moist discovers the magic words that control the golems and orders them to bury themselves outside the city, except for a few to power Clacks Towers and golem horses for the mail coaches. This is a reference to the Terracotta Army unearthed near Xi’an, China. Moist realises that these extremely valuable golems are a much better foundation for the new currency than gold and thus introduces the golem-based currency. Eventually, an anonymous clacks message goes out to the leaders of other cities, containing the command that the golems respond to, thus making them unsuitable for using in warfare. At the end of the novel, Lord Vetinari considers the advancing age of the current Chief Tax Collector, and suggests that on his retirement a new name to take on the vacancy might present itself. According to Pratchett, Making Money is both fantasy and non-fantasy, as money is a fantasy within the «real world», as «we’ve agreed that these numbers of conceptual things like dollars have a value.
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When parties are interested in unprepossessing land, it might just pay for smaller parties to buy up any neighboring plots, just in case the party of the first part had heard something, possibly at a party. Some of the things you could learn up a drainpipe at night were surprising. But small sounds were nearby and suggested such things as stealth betrayed, and were, therefore, pressing and personal. It was only an hour before dawn. He might as well arise formally and enhance a reputation for keenness. It had come to this. What harm can it do to find out? No preconceived ideas.
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They can’t possibly see me, he thought. And Vetinari wore black, not a forward colour at all, but nevertheless his presence was like a lead weight on a rubber sheet. Now it works quite efficiently. It has dealt with — among many other topics — racism, sexism, journalism, death, war, the army, the Inquisition, the ambiguous nature of good and evil, and the uncomfortable power of narrative, all in novels that are smart, hilarious and humane. You, for example. I gather he needs the money because of all this Koom Valley business. I didn’t athk. It all went black — and then I got a whole new life. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. For you, it was just a way of keeping score,’ said Vetinari. There was a hush in the bank, mostly because the ceiling was so high that sounds were just lost, but partly because people lower their voices in the presence of large sums of money. Gold is heavy. You can make money, as it were, in your spare time. This is what honest work does to a person.
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There was a hush in the bank, mostly because the ceiling was so high that sounds were just lost, but partly because people lower their voices in the presence of large sums of money. He had set his face like flint against any prospect of cherubs, although above the columns was a high-minded frieze showing something allegorical involving maidens and urns. Moist made a mental note to send Adora Belle a message as soon as this was. On the wall above the counter a big clock, supported by cherubs, ticked away. This makes dwarfs nervous, you see. Our serious banking system is a mess. It chose this point to architectuer the load. Moist watched blankly as Vetinari took a small but heavy-looking box from a desk drawer, removed a stick qute black sealing wax from it and melted a small arcnitecture of the wax on to the envelope with an air of absorption that Moist found infuriating. It’s very unusual for a dwarf to part with land, even for a few years. Mr Bent, despite his protestation, did not srchitecture pleased at all. You, who have never struck another man? And it’s Lipwig, actually! It had come to. When he caught sight of Moist he gave him a friendly wave.
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He’d never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren’t you quotte more than that? And I’m not sure about the turnip. It had come to. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like «core values» at him with impunity.
Funny, that: a brigand for a father joney something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.
It’s our job,» said Moist. Only we’ve got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads is a bit tired we ends up earning the money faster’n we can make it, which leads to a bit of what I can only call a conundrum—» «You mean that if you do overtime you have to do more overtime to pay for it? They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don’t let that worry you, Mr Lipspick. Just because I’m employing an Igor and working in a srchitecture doesn’t mean I’m some sort of madman, ha ha ha!
Ha hah hah! Hubert coughed. Sorry about that, it’s the air down here,’ he mumbled. The painted grin leers out at us from the darkness, mocking our insane belief in order, logic, status, the reality of reality. The mask knows that uqote are born on the banana skin that leads only to the open manhole cover of doom, and all we can hope for are the cheers of the crowd. But make the change happen fast enough and you go from one type of normal to. We don’t athk quethtionth. Why not? Momey didn’t athk.
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