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The Great A'Tuin
T u b u l
The Destinatio
n
crusted with rheum and asteroid
on his ponderous limbs
IN A DISTANT and second-hand
set
of dimensions in an astral plane
his huge and ancient shell
that was never meant to fly
the curling star-mists waver
dust He stares fixedly at
pocked with meteor craters
and part - SEE
Great A'Tuin the Turtle comes
Through sea-sized eyes that are
swimming slowly through the
interstella
r gulf hydrogen frost
The Disc
d i s a p p e a r i n g
distant ships sometimes
The disc being flat
has no real horizon
looked as though they were
Any adventurous
sailors
who got funny ideas from staring
over the edge of the world
disappearin
g over the edge of
at eggs and oranges
for too long and set out for
the world was that they were
the antipodes
soon learned that the reason why
B e r i l i a
Ankh-Morpor
k Pearl-of-
Cities
the diseased secretions
to anything
Ankh-Morpor
k Pearl of cities
This is not a
then it might as well be
completely accurate description
of course - it was not
of a dying mollusc
a piece of rubbish
round and shiny
But even its worst enemies
covered with
would agree that if you had
to liken Ankh-Morpor
k
One Man One Vote
by reason of age
as the only form of
T e c h n i c a l l y
the city of Ankh-Morpor
k
democracy that works
is a Tyranny - which is not
always the same thing as a
or not being Lord Vetinari
Everyone is entitled to vote
monarchy and in fact even
the post of Tyrant
unless disqualifie
d
has been somewhat redefined by
the incumbent Lord Vetinari
