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Going postal movie review1/2/2023 ![]() It is a quartet of characters, along with Archchancellor Ridcully and at least some of the guild leaders who are starting to inspire this real progress. William de Worde runs a large free press, and here Moist joins their ranks as an equal opportunity employer, visionary thinker and actually quite nice guy, once you get to know him. ![]() Lord Vetinari and Commander Vimes have taken a while to get here, but they are running a city with lower rates of crime and higher quality of life than ever before. If anything, these Ankh-Morpork based novels have presented an interesting picture of a city that is slowly improving itself, one official at a time. Moist starts the novel as a not particularly good person and ends it a hero it’s a similar trajectory to other Discworld favourites, notably Sam Vimes and William de Worde, but I don’t feel like the arch has got old. Lord Vetinari puts him in charge of the crumbling Ankh-Morpork Post Office, which is being choked by the weight of its own bureaucracy and the pressure from the clacks, which can deliver a message in hours rather than months to the far ends of the Disc. A small time but prolific conman, the novel begins with Moist being hung and then waking up, which is where his problems really start. ![]() Going Postal is also responsible for the introduction of one of the most popular characters of the later Discworld novels, Moist von Lipwig. As far as tributes to the great man go, Going Postal was responsible for by far the most poignant. When Sir Terry passed almost two years ago, some of his most dedicated fans created web extensions that would put the banner ‘GNU Terry Pratchett’ all over the net and ensure that he is never really gone. It’s a bit complicated but basically it means that as a long as a message is being passed up and down the line – ‘GNU John Dearheart’ is the example from the book – a man hasn’t really died. ![]() The clacks, a kind of advanced system of semaphore, sends messages across the Disc at top speeds, and when a clacksman dies in the line of duty, he is ‘sent home’ in the lines. This is a coincidence because this documentary is an example of a name living on, a man not forgotten, and that happens to also be one of the themes addressed in Going Postal. In one of those helpful coincidences that have followed me through this endeavour, I finished reading Going Postal on the day that the BBC aired their docudrama ‘Back In Black’, celebrating the life of Sir Terry in all of its glory. ![]()
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