Do You Want to Live Forever Ask Me Again in 500 Yeras Terry Pratchett

The Truth is the twenty-5th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, published in 2000.

Plot summary [ ]

The book features the coming of movable type to Ankh-Morpork, and the founding of the Discworld'south first newspaper by William de Worde, as he invents investigative journalism with the help of his reporter Sacharissa Cripslock. The two investigate the charges of embezzlement and attempted murder against Havelock Vetinari, and assistance vindicate him.

The Ankh-Morpork Urban center Watch characters also appear in this novel, but have limited roles and are seen mainly from de Worde's perspective which is not a flattering 1. C.M.O.T. Dibbler also puts in an appearance.

In the novel the criminal group The New Firm (Mr. Pivot and Mr. Tulip) are employed by a group of so called "concerned citizens" to frame Lord Vetinari, in a conspiracy to get a new Patrician of Ankh-Morpork.

To accomplish this the New House find a shopkeeper who happens to exist the spitting image of Vetinari and plan to utilise him as a double to make it seem equally if Vetinari was trying to abscond from the city with a large amount of aureate.

While the ploy works, it is touch-and-go for a minute or 2--the New House'south employers neglects to tell Mr. Pivot and Mr. Tulip that Vetinari "moves like a serpent" and has been trained at the Assassins' Order. They improvise, stabbing Vetinari's clerk, Drumknott, and pushing their Vetinari wait-a-similar into the hallway to "confess".

The only wrinkle is the escape of Wuffles, Vetinari'due south terrier, who tries only fails to go rid of the intruders by biting them at the ankle. The New Business firm doesn't retrieve much of this, but every bit Mr. Camber of the Lawyer's Gild is quick to indicate out, Ankh-Morpork has myriad ways to talk to anything, and then the New Firm is forced to search for Wuffles.

When the Ankh-Morpork Times offers a AM$25 reward for Wuffles, hundreds of people show upwardly to effort to become the reward, and Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip speedily have advantage of the situation, and arriving disguised as Omnian clergy members.

They are about to kill William de Worde when the Times iconographer takes a movie using "Dark Low-cal" exposure, which causes Mr. Pivot to get aware of the large number of ghosts following him, waiting for him to die.

He runs from the scene, and threatens Mr. Slant in order to increase their fee, subsequently which he goes to his employer'south house, where he finds the Times reporter Sacharissa Cripslock.

Taking her with them, the New Firm go down to the Times office to wait for William to evidence upwards. A scuffle breaks out, which leads to a fire, from which Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip take refuge in the basement. When the basement begins to fill up with hot lead as the press press in the flooring to a higher place melted, Mr. Pin takes reward of his partner's trust and, under the guise of a program, he shoots him and stands on his body in order to survive, claiming he "wasn't born to fry...".

When Mr. Pin finally gets out of the basement, out of habit more anything else, he tries to strangle William, who accidentally runs him through with a paper spike.

Following this Mr. Pin ends up in the Desert of the Dead, where he meets Death and has his soul nerveless by the Expiry of Rats. Later, Decease obliges Mr. Pin'south wish to be reincarnated by sending him back to life as a potato, which is, ironically, deep fried and turned into fries.

William uses the gems on Mr. Pin's person to help the Dwarves buy a new press, and and so confronts his male parent, Lord de Worde, at his mansion, well-nigh getting captured. Otto Chriek, his vampire iconographer, saves him though, despite nearly falling victim to his species' bloodlust, and lets Lord de Worde go.

Afterward the two render to the role, William learns of Lord Vetinari'south reinstatement, and asks Sacharissa out. Afterwords, Mr. Tulip, reincarnated as a woodworm, comments on the "-ing good woods."

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The opening line regarding rumour spreading like wild burn particularly since Ankh-Morpork had discovered burn down insurance is a reference to the Colour of Magic when TwoFlower sells insurance to the owner of the Cleaved Drum only to have him set fire to the whole city in an attempt to collect on the policy. Later on when there is a fire, Pratchett points out the the Ankh-Morporkians were balky to Fire Brigades because they figured that if they were being paid to put out fires this would give them an incentive to start them. In the early days of Fire Brigades, this was in fact the instance.

Equally in previous novels, Pratchett again plays with the term "Water Gate" and its associations when he centers activity around this entry point to Ankh-Morpork. The Watergate scandal break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee in 1972 was traced back to the Commission to Re-Elect the President. Record recordings proved Republican President Richard Nixon was involved in authorizing the break-in and led to his resignation earlier the House could impeach him. Afterward in this novel, Pratchett uses a similar line "'And now... this coming together of the Committee to Unelect the Patrician is alleged closed.'" In addition, Gaspode says, "You can call me... Deep Bone." a play on Deep Throat who was the key informant in the Watergate Scandal. The Oblong Office of the Patrician in the real earth is the The states President'southward Oval Office in the White House.

The sequence involving a class of magic students at the Conjurers Guild below de Worde'south office is a direct pastiche of i of British comedic magician Tommy Cooper's routines.

Dibbler's remarks, "I could've done all right with the Fung Shooey, though." is a reference to Feng Shui, the ancient Chinese pattern philosophy where proper placement of objects similar article of furniture and plants within a house influence the fortunes of the house possessor.

The two villains, Pin and Tulip who work for an organization called the "New Firm" are typical of the criminal partnerships constitute throughout existent life, movies and literature. The name "One-time Business firm" was used to describe the Kray Brothers' criminal organisation of 1960s London and has get a generic term for a criminal organizations. Like Mr Wint and Mr Kidd in the James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever, Pin and Tulip refer to each other as 'Mr" as practise Mr. Croup and Mr Vandemar in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (who also refer to themselves equally the Old Firm). There are also many Pulp Fiction references in The Truth so the thugs might exist partly patterned after Jules Winfield and Vincent Vega from that 1994 movie merely in reality at that place are so many like partnerships, from Lock Stock and Ii Smoking Barrels to A Fish Called Wanda, that information technology is unlikely that whatsoever ane pairing was the prototype.

Tulip's drug habit and experimentation is mentioned throughout the novel, a common trait of the type of villain he represents. Pratchett pokes macabre fun at the way druggies willing put whatever substance up their nose and in their veins that their dealer provides them with, every bit if their dealer's grapheme is beyond reproach and the product is guaranteed to exist what is claimed- a misguided notion that has been repeated in the real world over and over, most recently with the fentanyl crisis. When Tulip puts the pickle up his nose in the Biers bar, this is clearly a sexual reference.

Pratchett's line "Stop the press" just as the railroad vehicle rolls over William de Worde is a play on the line from the newspaper world when a special edition needs to be printed but is besides a reference to stopping the runaway cart which contains a printing press from "pressing" William de Worde apartment.

The dwarf Gunilla Goodmountain's name is Gutenberg translated from German to English. Johann Gutenberg invented movable blazon in the 1450s and printed the Gutenberg Bibles. The name of Caslong who is Goodmountain's assistant comes from the Caslon typeface named later on its creator William Caslon. Boddony, another assistant is named later Bodoni another mutual typeface designed by Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni. Another dwarf is named Gowdie which is a reference to Frederic William Goudy, the American type designer who designed the Berkeley Old Style font equally well every bit several Goudy fonts he named later on himself.

The line "We are a babysitter of lies, gentlemen." is a paraphrase of Winston Churchill'south line "In war-fourth dimension, truth is then precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies", an advisable quote given the title of the book.

Pratchett pokes fun at the contempo real globe changes in communication and the resultant issues - the internet etc. Dibbler'southward pamphlet says "Thousand-a-k-e-$-$-$-I-north-n-Y-o-u-r-due east-S-p-a-r-e-T-y-m--." which is a common refrain and style of Internet spam and other concatenation letter pyramid schemes. Pratchett seems to enjoy poking fun at the pyramid scheme concept. In Carpe Jugulum, Agnes says, "You hateful vampirism is like... pyramid selling?" Similarly, the line "Have you heard of c-commerce?" (C commerce being Clack Commerce - ie. using the semaphore system to buy things) is reminiscent of e-commerce, or doing business electronically over the Net.

Vetinari says, 'A thousand years ago we thought the world was a bowl,' 'Five hundred years ago we knew it was a globe. Today we know it is flat and round and carried through infinite on the dorsum of a turtle.' ... 'Don't you wonder what shape it volition turn out to be tomorrow?' This is both a reference to the way our thinking has evolved and to the movie Men in Black where Tommy Lee Jones' grapheme says: "1500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the eye of the universe. 500 years agone, everybody knew that the World was apartment. And 15 minutes agone, you knew that humans were lonely on this planet. Imagine what you'll know... tomorrow."

Goodmountain says that the Bursar's words are not properly justified - significant that the spaces aren't set evenly in the typeface but which the Bursar misinterprets to mean that Goodmountain does not believe he has properly rationalize his argument.

The line "...what would it do to the pie?" is a reference to the cooking in the previous sentence but likewise refers to printer pie, a term for jumbled-up blazon, which will exist sorted for the next job or recast into new type.

Goodmountain says, "...Never use spades, Farmers use spades. But I telephone call a shovel a shovel." a reference to the old adage in regard to being plain spoken - calling a spade a spade.

Foul Ole Ron says, "Gottle o' geer, gottle o' geer," which is a reference to the old ventriloquist routine. When they wanted to demonstrate how practiced they were they included the phrase "canteen of beer" as office of their act. Since it is impossible to pronounce the 'B' without moving your lips, the phrase comes out equally "gottle of geer". For someone like Foul Ron who has trouble putting two coherent words together beyond "millennium hand and shrimp" this seems an advisable line.

"Mr. Tulip used his caput all the fourth dimension, from a distance of almost 8 inches" - a reference to the standard head butting tactic of this blazon of streetwise thug.

Mr. Tulip shows his range of interests when he talks nigh painting (ones he would like to steal) Woman holding a Ferret by Leonard de Quirm is a reference to Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine. The painter Gogli is probable van Gogh merely Mr. Tulip adds"If ----ing Gogli painted that, it was with his ----ing foot" a reference to Christie Brown, the Irish creative person and author of My Left Foot. His comments near "[...] the P'gi Su dynasty" is a reference to Peggy Sue', the title of ane of Buddy Holly's hits and a reminder of the previous novel ''Soul Music.' but also a play on the various Chinese Dynasties.

"the Tons acted like guild lords" - The Tons are the muscle for the Troll gangs and Tongs are the Chinese Mafia in the real world just the name too conjures upward "Ton" which was an eighteenth century Regency term for the upper levels of London Society.

Sacharissa Cripslock with the "nose lonely ... capable of launching at least twoscore ships" is a reference to Helen of Troy with "the face that launched a thousand ships." Her proper noun probably comes from the South African moth - Scythris sacharissa.

Foul Ole Ron every bit newspaper seller yells out "Hoinarylup!" "Squidaped-oyt!" and "Sheearna-pip!". The old fourth dimension paper sellers yelled out the headlines of their paper in an virtually incomprehensible fashion. However, as is typical Foul Ole Ron his words actually do mean nothing - which doesn't stop the Ankh-Morpork Times from selling out.

The line from Mr. Pin, "'Do you lot know what they chosen a sausage-in-a-bun in Quirm?' is a play on the scene from Lurid Fiction when Vincent says, "And yous know what they telephone call a... a... a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?" Another Lurid Fiction reference later on in the book is the line, 'A canis familiaris has got personality. Personality counts for a lot.' In Pulp Fiction, Jules says, "... a domestic dog'due south got personality. Personality goes a long fashion."

The troll Rocky, the boxer who is forever getting knocked down, is an obvious reference to Sylvester Stallone's Rocky movies.

The headline for the newspaper "The Truth Shall Make Ye Gratis" is from the bible - John 8:32: "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall brand you free." Sacharissa is dismissive of the motto maxim, "I recollect its but a quote." Afterward as things get more complex a type setting error changes this line to "The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret" and notwithstanding later it becomes "The Truth Shall Brand Ye Fred".

Throughout the book, Pratchett uses lines like, "If it's in the paper it must be true." to bear witness the willingness of the populace to believe annihilation they see in impress, no matter how ridiculous. A variation on the line is used by Virginia O'Hanlon in her letter to the New York Lord's day in 1897 regarding the being of Santa Claus - a reference Pratchett used in The Hogfather. She says, "Papa says that if you come across it in the Sun it is and so."The original reference comes from Mark Twain in his March 31, 1873 spoken language called License of the Press. Twain says, "Information technology has go a sarcastic proverb that a affair must be true if you saw information technology in a paper. That is the opinion intelligent people take of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people -- who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations -- practise believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper, and at that place is where the harm lies." In his song Sunday Papers, English singer/songwriter Joe Jackson explores this theme; one line of which is: "They wouldn't print it if information technology wasn't truthful". In the nowadays real earth of spin doctors, "imitation news" and news as entertainment, Pratchett shows this willingness to believe any garbage over and over at the breakfast tabular array at Mrs. Arcanum's boarding business firm - all the mundane is accepted willingly and eagerly while the actually important issues and facts are dismissed as little nonsense. Mrs. Arcanum's name comes from the Latin and means "secrets" or "mysteries" and is also used in Tarot so the contrast between the real facts that William is trying to present and the wooly "facts" that Mrs. Arcanum's boarders are interested in is obvious. Twain, Jackson and Pratchett were very prescient as to the role of the media in "informing" the denizens.

Sacharissa says "'Oh? You've signed the pledge?" to Otto the vampire who has pledged not to drink blood and is a member of the Überwald Temperance Movement. This is a reference to the pledge not to drink alcohol that originated with the Women's Christian Temperance movement founded in the 1870s and is even so used by Alcoholics Anonymous and other tee-totaling religious movements. The conversation that follows is a series of one liners and quips nigh the nature of vampirism and plays on "pale" vs "steak" that are typical of Pratchett'southward way. Later on, when Sacharissa faints (the image of fainting virgins a common vampire theme) Otto almost has a relapse and the others rally circular him to continue him on the railroad vehicle, once more a reference to an AA or Christian Temperence meeting. Otto says that he is completely "beetotal" (not drinking blood) a reference to being teetotal (not drinking alcohol).

Pratchett pokes fun at all the diverse cliches and aspects virtually newspapers. The proper noun Ankh-Morpork "Times" is simply a printer's error fabricated when the dwarfs mix upward the letters in "item". The obituary column is run by a zombie who is apparently expressionless. The newspaper photographer is a vampire who tin can't be exposed to light. The lost and constitute column advertizing recovers a watch that the possessor has really simply left in another jacket pocket. The letters to the paper are typical - everyone has an opinion about the well-nigh mundane subjects such as weather, no one agrees, there are complaints about rampant crime fifty-fifty if the evidence is to the contrary and there is some foreigner to arraign for any woes.

Gardeners similar Mr. Wintler and his unusual vegetables are a common theme in local community newspapers - peculiarly around autumn fair time. The unstated sexual component adds the twist, peculiarly when William de Worde is relieved to see that Mr. Wintler's latest offering is only a parsnip shaped like a long nose. In previous centuries before sexual organs could be written nigh plain, authors used the nose as a euphemism for a penis. This was especially pop in Russian literature after the publication of Lawrence Stern'south novel, Tristam Shandy which used this thought. The most famous example of this is the short story past Nikolai Gogol, "The Nose". Later in the volume, Sacharissa knees Mr. Tulip firmly in "the place that fabricated a parsnip a very funny thing indeed." - ofttimes euphemistically chosen the "produce section".

Otto the Vampire photographer experiments with "dark light" a reference to "nighttime affair".

Vimes says to William de Worde "You write that little gossipy thing, right?" to which William de Worde replies, "Broadly, sir." This is a pun on broadsheet - some other name for a newspaper, unremarkably of a more serious nature than a tabloid which the Ankh-Morpork Times is. In contrast, its rival, the Ankh-Morport Inquirer is the kind of tabloid found at the checkout stands in supermarkets - an obvious reference to the National Enquirer right downwardly to the style of the masthead. Its headline, "Woman gives birth to Cobra" is typical of the dubious facts printed in both these tabloid papers. A subsequent headline, "Elves stole my Married man!" is some other shot at the National Enquirer which has used headlines, such as "Elvis alive and living in....." Pratchett played with the words Elvis/Elves previously in Soul Music. Some other of their headlines refers to a "HALF Man Half MOTH?" This is based on the "sightings of a "Mothman" who was a man with wings seen past several people in Clendenin, West Virginia, in 1966, and reported in the Indicate Pleasant paper before being picked up nationally.

William de Worde says "[...] lies could run round the earth earlier the truth could get its boots on." This saying is another attributed to Mark Twain, merely it has been effectually in various forms since the time of Jonathan Swift in 1710 and is also supposedly an former Chinese maxim.

Twurp's Peerage is the directory of all the nobility of Ankh-Morpork and its satellites, describing their lineage and titles. It is a takeoff on Burke'due south Peerage. In colloquial English, "berk" and "twerp" are both pejorative names for an obnoxious, dizzy person. Berk was originally the cruder of the two deriving from the 1930s as a shortened version of Berkeley Hunt, the hunt based at Berkeley Castle, in Gloucestershire. In Cockney rhyming slang, hunt is a rhyme for cunt, giving the word its original slang significant.

"King of the Golden River", in connection to Harry King, is a reference to the classic 1842 fairy tale written by John Ruskin only this male monarch finds gold in the shit and piss of Ankh-Morpork. Pratchett himself says that "practically everything in the career of Harry King is adequately based on fact (except for the trolls)." At that place are many parallels betwixt Harry's career and those of Dickens' characters in Victorian England and in many poor countries the trades proceed to this day. Mudlarks were children (usually) who made a living scrounging in the sewage of the Thames (and other) rivers for valuables that had been lost. The rag and os men collected unwanted household items and sold them to merchants. Linen rags were turned into paper. Bones were used for knife handles, toys and ornaments. Harry'southward poem, "Tinkle, Tinkle, footling spoon, Hymeneals band volition follow soon" is a macabre version of the saccharine child'due south nursery rhyme "Twinkle Twinkle trivial star, How I wonder what you are". Night soil collectors sold the urine and excrement that they collected (and nonetheless do it some countries). Urine contains urea which degrades into ammonia and is used in a number of industries. Tanners use it to loosen hair on fauna hides. Laundresses used information technology to whiten and clean clothes. It could be used to brand saltpeter for gunpowder. Information technology was used to set dyes in the fabric trade and besides used as a teeth whitener mouth wash. Human excrement was used as a fertilizer for crops as is animal excrement. Animal excrement is used as a fuel source and to mix into adobe brick to make buildings. Dog droppings were used in the tanning industry to soften the leather.

The bar "Biers" is a take off on "Thanks" the bar in the American TV show. Biers is likewise a frame to place a coffin on (appropriate given the general undead state of most of the clientele at this bar) and is German for beer.

The line, 'An' so... then I'm gonna get medieval on his arse.' is a paraphrase of a Pulp Fiction quote.

Sisyphus from Greek mythology is the "hero who was condemned to push a rock up a colina and every fourth dimension he got it to the elevation it rolled down over again"

De Worde tells Sacharissa that she is "non (his) blazon." a reference to both his preference in women and also to the press merchandise.

When robbing the church, Mr. Tulip says to the priest who interupst them, 'Have you even so got the box it came in?' and asks if there is a 2nd candlestick. This scene spoofs the Antiques Roadshow type television receiver programs where people bring their onetime items to be identified and appraised past experts.

Pratchett says, that traditional minded dwarfs "took the view that what two dwarfs decided to do together was entirely their own business." This is a variation on the famous quote by Canadian Prime Minister (then Minister of Justice) Pierre Elliot Trudeau in regard to homosexuals that, "The Land has no business concern in the bedrooms of the nation." The line "bedrooms of the nation" was actually credited by Trudeau to Toronto Globe and Mail columnist Martin O'Malley.

Willie Hobson, who owns Hobson's multi-storey Livery Stable, conspicuously the equivalent of a multi-storey motorcar park, is patterned after Thomas Hobson (1544-1630) a Cambridge stable director and the origin of the maxim "Hobson's pick" (ie the advent of giving someone a choice, when actually there is merely 1 pick). People renting horses from him would be shown all available horses, but in the stop they always had to take the one nearest the door, so that all his horses were exercised. In the Watergate Scandal, Deep Throat always met his contact in a multi-storey car park and they are a common meeting signal in spy and gangster movies, and then it is a natural spot for William de Worde to meet Deep Bone.

Deep Bone says, "Could be, could exist, could very well exist". This line is a parallel to the lines from the Monty Pythons "Candid Photography (Nudge Nudge Wink Flash)" sketch. Pratchett uses another reference to Monty Pythons when they are reviewing the "dogs" being delivered to the newspaper office and take to point out to the owners that some are cats and one is a parrot.

The town of Schüschien simple ways Shoe Smoothen in High german.

Subsequently the attack by Tulip and Pin, when Otto is feeling the need for claret, he sings his Temperance hymn, "Let me valk in sunshine. Living non in vein, Through thunderstom and dreadful dark, ve vill carry on zer fight. The dwarfs all sing the hymn, "May I suck of Water Pure" to lend their back up which Pratchett say, "...would have been as likely as cows singing "Let me be covered in rapturous gravy." In all these hymns, Pratchett plays with the Christian Temperance style of hymn and the issues of being a vampire - vein (vain), gravy (glory) from the blood of a roast, suck of water pure (beverage of the claret of Christ).

The new Patrician Scrope is in the leather trade but it is clear this is the kinky sex bondage blazon of leather, not coats and jackets. One of the beginning acts that Scrope plans when he takes office is to pardon Vetinari. In the Circular earth Gerald Ford did this after he succeeded Richard Nixon.

The comment that "The Ephebian philosophers call up that a hare tin can never outrun a tortoise, and they can prove it" is a reference to the Aesop fable "The tortoise and the Hare".

Deep Bone says, "Hark Hark the dogs do bark" The rest of the Roundworld verse is, "The beggars are coming to boondocks." advisable given that Deep Os lives with the beggars nether the bridge.

Sacharissa says, "They're undermining us everywhere" in regard to the Inquirer cut into their business only also undermining their foundations with their shaking presses.

When William de Worde needs to meet Gaspode (Deep Bone) he tells Sachrissa that he is "going to encounter a domestic dog about a man" a play on the line, "going to come across a man about a dog" which is a euphemism for taking a piss.

When the New House is trapped in the basement of the newspaper building, Mr. Pin says, "I wasn't born to fry." a play on burning in the building but too on dying in the electrical chair. Ultimately he does in fact fry, when he is reincarnated as a murphy which is turned into chips.

Sacharissa suggests starting a magazine for women chosen the Ladies Home Companion a take off on The Ladies Home Journal. The other suggestions are obvious take offs on the likes of Playboy, Maxim, Adult female, and various knitting, cooking and pet magazines.

Pratchett plays with the concept of reincarnation with the fates of Tulip and Pivot. Tulip is condemned by Decease to lookout the deceases of his various victims for "eternity" and becomes a wood worm, one type of which is the "Death Sentry beetle". Pin, who believes the "religious symbol murphy" volition salvage him from hell is reincarnated equally a potato shaped like his face up and is then fried.

Pivot's walllet has the words, "Not A Very Dainty Person At All",' engraved on the front, a reference to Jules' wallet in Pulp Fiction which reads "Bad Motherfucker".

When Sacharissa enters the Inquirer office waving the weapon and says, "Let us use your "ing" presses or I'll "ing" shoot your "ing" head "ing" off!'", this is reminiscent of Honey Bunny'due south screaming at the patrons in the cafe in Pulp Fiction: "Any of yous fuckin' pricks move and I'll execute every motherfuckin' last one of ya!".

Decease says "WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?" with its answer, "The Shadow Knows!" is a direct quote from the old radio show "The Shadow". Pratchett is likely juxtaposing Death's use of this line and its source in the radio testify with Psalm 23 "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil." The Shadow of Decease is also a painting past the 19th century artist William Holman Hunt, foreshadowing Christ'due south death on the cross.

The line, 'Every mean solar day, in every vay, ve get better and better.' comes from one of the first positive-thinking mantras, coined past Emile Coue (1857-1926), French psychotherapist and chemist. Coue's study of hypnotism convinced him that motorcar-suggestion could cure anything simply actual results showed no comeback. The line has come to stand for trite and simplistic solutions to complex problems and is parodied in countless literature and film.

Goodmountain says in regard to getting the printing press from the Inquirer, "Let's simply do information technology" a reference to Nike'due south famous slogan "Just do it!"

'Have you locked him upward,' said Sacharissa suspiciously, 'in a deep cell, and made him wearable a mask all the fourth dimension [...]?" This line in regard to Charlie, the Patrician's double is a reference to Alexandre Dumas' 1846 novel The Man in the Iron Mask.

When William de Worde meets with the civic leaders, Mr. Slant says that "Mr. Scrope has sent a note...Information technology appears he is ill". William's response is to say, "Was it signed by his mother." A reference to schools requiring a notation for absence signed by parent or guardian so that the pupil couldn't just be faking information technology (which obviously Mr. Scrope is doing).

William de Worde thinks to himself, "You've got to move with the Times" (capitalized as a reference to both time and his paper.

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