"You cannot fight for 'reasonably priced love'."

"You can if you want me and the rest of the girls on board," said Rosie. "'Free' is not a word we wish to see used in these circumstances."

"Oh, very well," said Reg, making a note on a clipboard. "We're all happy with Truth, Justice and Freedom, are we?"

There was a chorus of nods. Everyone wanted those. They didn't cost anything.

"You'd like Freedom, Truth and Justice, wouldn't you, comrade sergeant?"

"I'd like a hard-boiled egg."

"In the circumstances, sergeant, I think we should set our sights a little higher--"

"Well, yes, we could. But... well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg."





John Keel

How Do They Rise Up?





Vetinari S2