The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25) (Discworld Novels)

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William uses the gems on Mr. Pin's person to help the Dwarves buy a new press, and then confronts his father, Lord de Worde, at his mansion, almost getting captured. Otto Chriek, his vampire iconographer, saves him though, despite nearly falling victim to his species' bloodlust, and lets Lord de Worde go. William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition... Even more dangerously, a self-appointed Committee to Unelect the Patrician is plotting to bring down lord Vetinari and replace him with one of their own yes-men. Putting a muzzle on the idealist young William is very high on their agenda. After Terry was diagnosed with Posterior Cortical Atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer’s disease, in 2007, at the cruelly early age of 59, I began to accompany him at public appearances, reading for him when he no longer could, helping him through interviews on stage as “keeper of the anecdote”. We became, of necessity, a sort of double act.

This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ( May 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)A civilization runs on words, Your Reverence. Civilization is words. Which, on the whole, should not be too expensive. The world turns, Your Reverence, and we must spin with it.” Deep Bone says, "Could be, could be, could very well be". This line is a parallel to the lines from the Monty Pythons "Candid Photography (Nudge Nudge Wink Wink)" sketch. Pratchett uses another reference to Monty Pythons when they are reviewing the "dogs" being delivered to the newspaper office and have to point out to the owners that some are cats and one is a parrot.

Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.” He smiled. “It’s the only way to make progress. That, and, of course, moving with the times. Good day to you.” Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. In 1987, he turned to writing full time. But then he thought about it more seriously. “I wish I had started writing for a living earlier,” he said eventually. “I could probably have started to write full time about 10 years before I did.”

You will find it very hard to print that," said Mr. Carney, ignoring the lawyer's frantic hand signals, "with no damn press!" was the view of Mr. Carney of the Guild of Engravers,' spelled with an e before the y," said William, "'who earlier today tried to put the Times out of business by means of an illegal document.'" William realized that, although his mouth felt full of acid, he was enjoying this immensely. "Asked for his opinion of this flagrant abuse of the city laws, Mr. Slant said . . .'?" The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, although Vetinari is not elected William de Worde thinks to himself, "You've got to move with the Times" (capitalized as a reference to both time and his newspaper.

his father was right about one thing, at least, when he’d said that lies could run around the world before the truth could get its boots on. And it was amazing how people wanted to believe them. The novel was published in 2000, many years before the terms ‘post-truth’ and ‘stochastic terrorism’ became common coinage. Yet such is the predictive talent of the best science-fiction authors to notice current trends in world events and extrapolate the most likely outcomes in their fiction. Before long, he's got some competition in the form of THE INQUIRER, a tabloid that features headlines like Elves Stole My Husband. This inexplicably popular, lying fish-wrapper may even put HIS little paper out of business. Look after the business and it will look after you. For all you have done, for all of the little things and all of the much bigger things and for the burying of the bodies … I thank you.The comment that "The Ephebian philosophers think that a hare can never outrun a tortoise, and they can prove it" is a reference to the Aesop fable "The tortoise and the Hare". Together, William and the dwarves publish the ‘The Ankh-Morpork Times’, ushering in a new episode of the Industrial Revolution on Discworld. The birth of the fourth estate will make a lot of people ‘fret’ before they correct the spelling to ‘free’, giving us, the readers, one of the funniest adventures in the whole series while on the sidelines we get to debate the nature of truth, of the public as consumers of news and of power hungry little tyrants who dream of hitching this powerful force to their chariots. Why not? You can sell as many lies as you like if it’s advertising. That’s allowed,” said Saccharissa. “Please? We need the money!” And then there's that matter of William and his staff "helping" the Watch solve a mystery involving Lord Vetinari...