![]() ![]() Lipwig, who figures he can con his way out of things, reluctantly takes the job. He gives Lipwig the choice of walking out a door (which the nearly dead man discovers opens onto an almost bottomless pit) or reviving the post office. Vetinari wants to reopen the city’s Post Office an establishment that had essentially collapsed under its own weight – and greed. Lord Vetinari, the Lord Patrician of Discworld’s biggest city, Ankh-Morpork, I think that Vetinari is one of the best fictional rulers ever created. Actually, he was only hung to within half an inch of his life. In his first appearance ( Going Postal), Von Lipwig is a con man who is finally captured and hung. Moist Von Lipwig is the protagonist of three Discworld novels: Going Postal, Making Money, and Raising Steam. I think an overview of the Discworld series would be a worthy post here someday. I’m a huge fan of the Discworld books, and I’ve written a post on the City Watch, and one on Troll Bridge, a short story featuring Cohen the Barbarian. ![]() He used humor in a fantasy world as the vehicle, which probably causes many to dismiss how good he was at writing satire. I think that the late Terry Pratchett was an elite satirist. ![]()
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