TheBigBeef
09-18-2002, 12:02 PM
As quoted from Terry Pratchett's "Eric":
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"Let's just run through this again, shall we?" said the Demon King. He leaned back in his throne.
"You happened to find the Tezumen one day and decided, I think I recall your words correctly, that they were 'a bunch of Stone-Age no-hopers sitting around in a swamp being no trouble to anyone', am I right? Whereupon you entered the mind of their high priests - I believe at that time they worshipped a small sick - drove him insanse and inspired the tribes to unite, terrorise their neighbours and bring for upon the continent a new nation dedicated to the proposition that all men should be taken to the top of ceremonial pyramids and be chopped up with stone knives." The king pull his notes towards him. "Oh yes, some of them were also to be flayed alive, " he added.
Quezovercoatl shuffled his feet.
"Whereupon," said the King, "they immediately engange in a prolonged ar with just about everyone else, bringing death and destruction to thousands of moderately blameless people, ekcetra, ekcetra. Now, look, this sort of thing has got to stop."
Quezovercoatl swayed back a bit.
"It was only, you know, a hobby," said the imp, "I thought, you know, it was the right thing, sort of thing. Death and destruction and that."
"You did, did you?" said the King. "Thousands of more-or-less innocent people dying? Straight out of our hands, " he snapped his fingers, "just like that. Straight off to their happy hunting ground or whatever. That's the trouble with you people. You don't ever think of the Big Picture. I mean, look at the Tezumen. Gloomy, unimaginateive, obsessive... By now they could have invented a whole bureaucracy and taxation system that could have turned the minds of the continent to slag. Instead of which, they're just a bunch of second-rate axe-murderers. What a waste."
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"Let's just run through this again, shall we?" said the Demon King. He leaned back in his throne.
"You happened to find the Tezumen one day and decided, I think I recall your words correctly, that they were 'a bunch of Stone-Age no-hopers sitting around in a swamp being no trouble to anyone', am I right? Whereupon you entered the mind of their high priests - I believe at that time they worshipped a small sick - drove him insanse and inspired the tribes to unite, terrorise their neighbours and bring for upon the continent a new nation dedicated to the proposition that all men should be taken to the top of ceremonial pyramids and be chopped up with stone knives." The king pull his notes towards him. "Oh yes, some of them were also to be flayed alive, " he added.
Quezovercoatl shuffled his feet.
"Whereupon," said the King, "they immediately engange in a prolonged ar with just about everyone else, bringing death and destruction to thousands of moderately blameless people, ekcetra, ekcetra. Now, look, this sort of thing has got to stop."
Quezovercoatl swayed back a bit.
"It was only, you know, a hobby," said the imp, "I thought, you know, it was the right thing, sort of thing. Death and destruction and that."
"You did, did you?" said the King. "Thousands of more-or-less innocent people dying? Straight out of our hands, " he snapped his fingers, "just like that. Straight off to their happy hunting ground or whatever. That's the trouble with you people. You don't ever think of the Big Picture. I mean, look at the Tezumen. Gloomy, unimaginateive, obsessive... By now they could have invented a whole bureaucracy and taxation system that could have turned the minds of the continent to slag. Instead of which, they're just a bunch of second-rate axe-murderers. What a waste."
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:)