It was a fine summer morning,the kind to make a man happy to be alive.And probably the manwould have been happier to be alive.He was, in fact, dead.It would be hard to be deaderwithout special training. /   /   / „Well, now,“ said Sergeant Colon (Ankh-Morpork City Guard, Night Watch), consulting his notebook, „so far we have cause of death as a) being beaten with at least one blunt instrument b) being strangled with a string of sausages and c) b…

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  • 13. 5. 2023

Granny Weatherwax was gathering Herbs when they came up the track. / Everyday herbs of sickroom and kitchen are known as simples. / Granny’s Herbs weren’t simples. They were complicateds or they were nothing. And there was none of the airy-fairy business with a pretty basket and a pair of dainty snippers. Granny used a knife. And a chair held in front of her. And a leather hat, gloves and apron as secondary lines of defence. / Even she didn’t know where …

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  • 13. 5. 2023