On a sofa blanket, a bookmark sticking out: my worn well-read paperback edition of Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett. Cover: a delightfully hectic colourful cartoon illustration of witches and vampires and firebirds and whiskey-swilling pixies rushing about.

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   ‘There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things, including yourself. That’s what sin is.’

   ‘It’s a lot more complicated than that—’

   ‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.’

   ‘Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes—’

   ‘But they STARTS with thinking about people as things ...’

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