What's the use of having the power if you don't wield it? Man doesn't show you respect, you don't leave… — Terry Pratchett
What's the use of having the power if you don't wield it? Man doesn't show you respect, you don't leave enough of his damn inn to roast chestnuts on, understand?
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"You like it?" he said to Mort, in pretty much the same tone of voice people used when they said to St George, "You killed a what?"
Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"
(That was a cinematic trick adapted for print. Death wasn't talking to the princess. He was actually in his study, talking to Mort. But it was quite effective, wasn't it? It's probably called a fast dissolve, or a crosscut/zoom. Or something. An industry where the senior technician is called a Best Boy might call it anything.)
