This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness. Read 'Jingo Stage Adaptation' by Sir Terry Pratchett available from Rakuten Kobo. Never more so if it is over a 'strategic' piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere.
Throughout history, there's always been a perfectly good reason to start a war. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. Kindle 9.99 Rate this book Discworld 21 Jingo Terry Pratchett 4.17 62,904 ratings1,828 reviews World War breaks out on the Discworld in the twenty-first Discworld novel. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.īut the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Terry Pratchett Jingo Audio Book Download. Jingo is just one of Sir Terry Pratchett’s suitable tasks, with reconnaissance, intrigue as well as regular old ordinary feeling, yet you can not aid experience like you have actually existed before.
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