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• And she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all. “Holling,” she said. “I was so afraid I wouldn’t fine you.” “I was standing right here, Heather.” I said. “I’ll always be standing right here. – Gary D. Schmidt

• By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well. – John Salazar • Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we’ve seen, they just won’t do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we’re trying to optimize it for some of those applications. – Dean Kamen

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In addition 2 crore, 37 lakh and 50 thousand tonnes of diesel which would mean another 57,000 crore rupees. This is how much we owe these animals, and this is what we stand to lose by killing them. – Maneka Gandhi • Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody. – Pat Buchanan • Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel. – Dave Heineman • Diesel is back,” Ranger said. Yes. How did you know?” I woke up with a migraine this morning.” Ranger said. – Janet Evanovich • Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel. – Renzo Rosso • Don’t know if Boston was real or lucid dream. When they chanted Diesel, it sure as hell felt real for ME! You make decisions in life, sometimes never getting proof that it was the right decision. The crowd in Boston on Sunday night assured me that I MADE THE RIGHT DECISION. – Kevin Nash • Had we had all the money in the world to spend and we were doing another studio movie, we probably would have jumped quickly into the Necromonger universe and done an Orpheus Descending movie there. We didn’t have that kind of resource. So, we said, this time, “If not that, this time, then what is it? What does this new movie look like?” Quickly, just in talking about it very simply with Vin [Diesel] in his kitchen, we decided on a survival, left-for-dead story, where Riddick could, as a character, reclaim the animal side. – David Twohy • Have you eaten?’ I asked Diesel. When?’ Recently.’ No. – Janet Evanovich • He doesn’t look very smart,” Diesel said. “He’s not even giving me the finger.” “Can monkey’s do that?” Hal asked. Carl gave him the finger. “Cool!” Hal said. – Janet Evanovich • High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel. – Major Owens • I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me. – Clara Hughes • I don’t think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don’t put diesel in a Ferrari. – Harry Redknapp • I even had success with commercials, which is strange, because out of the six ideas, two won the platinum Minerva in France – it’s the Oscar for their commercials. One was about the Renault diesel and the other about the regular Renault. – Sergio Leone • I hate my Visa card but have to use it for diesel, insurance and big items. I prefer paying by cash whenever possible because that way I feel as if I’ve got a better grasp on what I’m spending. – Geoff Capes • I strongly support the Bush Administration’s clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent. – Steve Buyer • If I’m not going out, my go-to outfit is some comfortable pants, Vans, and a fitted tee. But if I’m going out, definitely some Diesel jeans, either some super cool boots or nice shoes, and then a button-up. – Sterling Beaumon • If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy. – Rick Renzi • If you’re looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people’s ability to pay, not people’s desire for a clean solar lamps or biomass opportunities. But there is a strong status quo that really depends on selling diesel. – Jacqueline Novogratz • I’ve always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that’s being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere. – Bobbie Ann Mason • Jesus is a powerful guy in Hollywood. Not quite as powerful as Vin Diesel, but powerful. – Christian Finnegan • Marijuana makes the best bio-diesel fuel on the planet, so it can make you energy. It grows 15 feet a summer, so it’s a renewable resource. It makes better paper than wood does. It makes clothing. Medical-wise, it’s stopping seizures, it’s working for post-traumatic stress, they’re even finding that it’s curing cancer in certain cases. I mean, this is a remarkable plant. Now, for those that smoke it recreationally, to feel good, what’s wrong with that? That’s mental health. – Jesse Ventura • Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil. – Daryl Hannah • Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It’s better than gasoline or diesel. It’s cleaner, it’s cheaper, and it’s domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America. – T. Boone Pickens • Proving that the best villains have the charisma of a hero, (Jason) Statham makes a strong impression, supplying the kind of menace that permeates the movie even when he’s not on screen. His fight with (Dwayne) Johnson doesn’t have the bang you’d expect from a The Transporter versus The Rock match-up, but the climactic Statham-(Vin)Diesel battle more than delivers. – Alonso Duralde • Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution. – Sheldon Whitehouse • Say you’re working for a big overseas aid organization. You can’t leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can’t get the mud huts right if you haven’t got things right where you are. You’ve got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is. – Bill Mollison • So far, I’ve only sailed in the Caribbean. I’ve sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted some really crummy boats in the Grenadines. That made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well. When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it’s terrible and amazing stuff. – Bill Murray • Sometimes I feel people think I live on a commune but I don’t. We are all solar, though. There are no power lines. It’s mostly farmers, so everyone who has tractors uses bio-diesel. – Woody Harrelson • Stephanie,’ Valerie said. ‘She’s going to have a baby, and she’s getting married.’ My father was confused. He looked around the room. No Joe. No Ranger. His eyes locked on Diesel. ‘Not the psycho,’ he said. Diesel blew out a sigh. My father turned to my mother. ‘Get me the carving knife. Make sure it’s sharp. – Janet Evanovich • The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air, .. It’s time for the industry to clean up its act, and it’s time for it to clean up the air. – Janet Reno • They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again. – Little Richard • To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have – if you could afford them. – Luke Evans • Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a diesel powered wheelbarrow. – Jeremy Clarkson • Vin Diesel and I have different approaches to life. We found a respect for one another but we were such opposite ends of the spectrum. The reason why it’s worked is because we are so different. I don’t know if we necessarily found a stride together because there are certain days I still want to crack him in the head! But he looks at me and there are days he wants to crack me in the head too. Then there are times he’ll look at me and say, ‘Man, I wish I could be more like you,’ and I’m like, ‘F**ker, I wish I could be more like you!’ – Paul Walker • Vin Diesel had to hire a babysitter. – Vin Diesel • Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I’ve ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That’s his most attractive muscle. – Asia Argento • We want stuff done right. As long as it’s my team, I’ll voice my opinion. Yep, it’s my team. You media guys might give it to him, like you’ve given him everything else his whole lifetime, but this is the Diesel’s ship. And if we’re not right, I’m going to go out there and try to get it right… Just ask Karl and Garywhy they wanted to come here. It was because of one person, not two. One. – Shaquille O’Neal • We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance-algae… We could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States. – Barack Obama • What are you doing back at the bakery?” I asked [Diesel]. “Did you know Wulf was here?” “No. I knew food was here. – Janet Evanovich • When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up. – Ron Ziegler • Whereas an elephant that was scared to death that diesel powered equipment, equipment that ran on a gas engine, was just fine. Because somebody had attacked it with construction equipment. But if it had a diesel engine, it was bad. – Temple Grandin • Women in bed are like Diesel engines. What I mean by that is, it may take them a while to get going, but when you do, they can go for a long, long time. Whereas men are like… bottle rockets. – Jeff Foxworthy • You guys are related to Jonah Wizard?” Jake asked, his lip curled disdainfully. “And the other guy,” Dan grumbled. “Vin Diesel’s stunt double. – Peter Lerangis • You know what is good about these Dixie Chicks burnings or bashings? It’s a wonderful, wonderful way for really stupid people to hook up. They meet, they throw some things on the fire, they talk about Vin Diesel, they tell stories about who their favorite Fox anchor is, they exchange phone numbers and in some cases has led to marriages. – Janeane Garofalo • You’re also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe. – Chris Cuomo

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MM151 - Investing in Yourself | MM Book Study Pt. 9

There are two primary forms of investment capital; time and money. What you need to ask yourself is; am I worth the investment of the money and the time? How do you spend your time and money?

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Welcome to Morning Mindset. A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator & trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television, and Radio host, Paul G. Markel. Each episode will focus on positive and productive ways to strengthen your mindset and help you improve your relationships, career goals, and overall well-being. Please welcome your host; Paul G. Markel.

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Hello and welcome back to Morning Mindset. I'm your host Paul Markel and we're continuing on as we did and has we have been doing. You're probably getting tired of hearing me say that I'm continuing with the book study, but have a little mercy because not everybody has been paying attention this whole time, and some people are new. We get new listeners every single day.

If you are brand-new, if you're just now picking up on this, I'm going to tell you something. This is part 9 of our 30 part book study program. That's right, it's the Morning Mindset book a 30 day plan for more positive and productive life. It's available on Amazon Kindle, and if you want a signed copy go to MorningMindsetPodcast.com.

Alright today. We're going to talk about investing in yourself. Are you worth it? Now when it comes to Investments, we have two primary tools that we will use for investment. We will use our money, and we will use our time. Now you can always get more money. Yes you can, you can always get more money.

You cannot get more time. No, you can't ladies and gentlemen, you only have a finite amount of time, 24 hours in the day. So we obviously want to invest our time and our money wisely. When it comes to investing in yourself, I'm going to ask you this, are you spending your time and your money primarily to distract and entertain yourself?

Do you spend your time watching television or watching sports games, or do you spend your time reading or studying, or do you break it up amongst the two? I don't expect you to be a monk and do nothing but read all the time, but if you don't have time to read to take in information if you don't have time for that because the game is on, or your favorite show is on, that is an investment that you are wasting.

You’re wasting an investment. Often people will say “Well, you know, I was going to take this class or I wanted to take this training or friend of mine told me about it. But you know, I would have to go somewhere else. I would have to drive to this other city and stay in a hotel” and yada yada and so on so forth. That's true in you know, depending on what it is that your field of endeavor is, I don't know what your favorite field of endeavor and what you're trying to be good at or what you are interested in.

But often unless you live in a really large Metroplex, the person or the class that you want to take person you want to see the class you want to take is not there where you are. You may have to actually travel to do that. Now I've done that a great amount of times. I've done this several times before I joined the military, before I joined the Marine Corps. I spent my own money, I took my own time and I traveled all the way across the country for training.

Then I did a lot of training, obviously, with the United States military then I got out and I went right back to traveling and training on my own dime and I've been doing that pretty much my entire adult life. Yes, it is an investment. It is an investment in my time, it's an investment in my money. But what am I investing in?

I'm investing in myself and you need to ask yourself that. Are you investing your time and your money in yourself in self-improvement? Are you growing as a person? Based upon your time investment and your monetary investment, or do you spend all of your time entertaining or distracting yourself?

I mean, let's face it in our modern world, there are so many available distractions. You have your iPhone, you have your television, you have your tablet, your laptop, your whatever. There's all kinds of devices and avenues that you can use to distract yourself. Time-wasters, you know, you can you can play these silly little gem drop games or poke the whatever animal games or I don't know number on your phone.

I see the kids doing this, and their time wasters and people will even admit that “I know, I got nothing to do. I'm just going to open this app on my phone and do this mindless stuff.” Now sometimes, don't get me wrong. Sometimes it's good just to give your mind a break and well, you know, I like to watch television for to give my mind to break.

Often what I'll do after a long day if I've been writing or if I've been producing material or what have you, if I've been thinking and performing and doing something very, very thoughtful and deliberate. I put a lot of mental energy into whether it's the producing the video or the audio or writing and then at the end of the day, I don't want to think anymore.

But I want something else think for me and so I'll sit in an easy chair and I'll turn on the television or watch a show or watch a movie or what have you and that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. But if I'm not writing, if I'm not producing, if I'm not, you know doing thoughtful endeavors because the TV or the game or the whatever, that I'm wasting my time, not investing my time properly, and when it comes to money, yes, everybody has a certain amount of disposable income, right?

You do, I do, everyone does, even rich people. Even people that you look at and you're like “Man that guy's rich” even that successful person still only has a certain amount of disposable income, and what are you going to spend that on often when I hear people say things like “Oh, I just yeah, I'd like to take that training. I like to do that class or you know, go back to school or whatever but I just can't afford it”, and that may be true.

But what are you spending your money on? What are you investing it in? Are you every day, do you go out for lunch, and you spend $9-10 eating out? You know during the day you go to the vending machine and you spend anywhere from $3-5 a day at the vending machines, you buy cigarettes, whatever people will spend and waste all kinds of money.

You stop on the way to work and you get a $3 cup of coffee and a muffin or whatever, and people say “Oh you just understand. I don't have the money” and I could follow him around for one day or you know a couple of days and say look, did you just waste it literally you wasted 20 30 50 dollars, and you said “Well, I don't want to buy that. I don't want to buy that book because it's $24.99 and that's way too much.”

But you'll waste five dollars a day going back and forth to a vending machine, or $3 cups of coffee or what have you, and you can spend your money on anything you want. I'm not here to judge. But when you say if you say things like if you make excuses, like I can't I don't have the time. I don't have the money. I to do what it's you that you're investing your time and money in.

If you're buying books, if you're taking training, if you're traveling to a school or what have you, you're investing in yourself and my biggest question to you is, when you look in the mirror, when you do that gut check, do you believe that you are worth investing in? You know, a really simple equation or really simple example?

Gym time, like “I just don't have time. I don't have time. I know that's cool, and I know I should but I don't have time.” Do you really not have time or you not willing to invest the time? You know, when I do the starting strength program, started doing that and I go into the gym and I do the warm-ups and I do the exercises and I do everything that I'm supposed to do.

It'll take me anywhere from 90 minutes to two hours appear like oh that's way too long. I some of that time I don't have the time and there are times when I feel like it's a lot of time and I need to be doing other stuff, but it is an investment. I'm taking that 90 minutes to two hours and I'm investing it in me and at the end of the day you need to ask yourself.

You need to have a serious honest discussion with. When it comes to investing your time when it comes to investing your money, are you worth it? Yes or no. Alright, that's it for today. Thank you very much for joining me. I am your host Paul Markel and I will talk to you again, real soon.

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'You did it again!' said Twoflower, pointing an accusing finger. 'You say things and then don't know you've said them!' 'I just said we'd better stay,' said Rincewind. 'You said the star was life, not death,' said Twoflower. 'Your voice went all crackly and far away. Didn't it?' He turned to the shopkeeper for confirmation. 'That's true,' said the little man. 'I thought his eyes crossed a bit, too.' 'It's the Spell, then,' said Rincewind. 'It's trying to take me over. It knows what's going to happen, and I think it wants to go to Ankh-Morpork. I want to go too,' he added defiantly. 'Can you get us there?' 'Is that the big city on the Ankh? Sprawling place, smells of cesspits?' 'It has an ancient and honourable history,' said Rincewind, his voice stiff with injured civic pride. 'That's not how you described it to me,' said Twoflower. 'You told me it was the only city that actually started out decadent.' Rincewind looked embarrassed. Yes, but, well, it's my home, don't you see?' 'No,' said the shopkeeper, 'not really. I always say home is where you hang your hat.' 'Um, no,' said Twoflower, always anxious to enlighten. 'Where you hang your hat is a hatstand. A home is —' 'I'll just go and see about setting you on your way,' said the shopkeeper hurriedly, as Bethan came in. He scooted past her. Twoflower followed him. On the other side of the curtain was a room with a small bed, a rather grubby stove, and a three-legged table. Then the shopkeeper did something to the table, here was a noise like a cork coming reluctantly out of a bottle, and the room contained a wall-to-wall universe. 'Don't be frightened,' said the shopkeeper, as stars streamed past. 'I'm not frightened,' said Twoflower, his eyes sparkling. 'Oh,' said the shopkeeper, slightly annoyed. 'Anyway, it's just imagery generated by the shop, it's not real.' 'And you can go anywhere?' 'Oh no,' said the shopkeeper, deeply shocked. 'There's all kinds of fail-safes built in, after all, there'd be no point in going somewhere with insufficient per capita disposable income. And there's got to be a suitable wall, of course. Ah, here we are, this is your universe. Very bijou, I always think. A sort of universette . . .' Here is the blackness of space, the myriad stars gleaming like diamond dust or, as some people would say, like great balls of exploding hydrogen a very long way off. But then, some people would say anything. A shadow starts to blot out the distant glitter, and it is blacker than space itself. From here it also looks a great deal bigger, because space is not really big, it is simply somewhere to be big in. Planets are big, but planets are meant to be big and there is nothing clever about being the right size. But this shape blotting out the sky like the footfall of God isn't a planet. It is a turtle, ten thousand miles long from its crater-pocked head to its armoured tail. And Great A'Tuin is huge. Great flippers rise and fall ponderously, warping space into strange shapes. The Discworld slides across the sky like a royal barge. But even Great A'Tuin is struggling now as it leaves the free depths of space and must fight the tormenting pressures of the solar shallows. Magic is weaker here, on the littoral of light. Many more days of his and the Discworld will be stripped away by the pressures of reality. Great A'Tuin knows this, but Great A'Tuin can recall doing all this before, many thousands of years ago. The astrochelonian's eyes, glowing red in the light of the dwarf star, are not focussed on it but at a little patch of space nearby . . . 'Yes, but where are we?' said Twoflower. The shopkeeper, hunched over his table, just shrugged. 'I don't think we're anywhere,' he said. 'We're in a cotangent incongruity, I believe. I could be wrong. The shop generally knows what it's doing.' 'You mean you don't?' 'I pick a bit up, here and there.' The shopkeeper blew his nose. 'Sometimes I land on a world where they understand these things.' He turned a pair of small, sad eyes on Twoflower. 'You've got a kind face, sir. I don't mind telling you.' 'Telling me what?' 'It's no life, you know, minding the Shop. Never settling down, always on the move, never closing.' Why don't you stop, then?' 'Ah, that's it, you see, sir—I can't. I'm under a curse, I am. A terrible thing.' He blew his nose again. 'Cursed to run a shop?' 'Forever, sir, forever. And never closing! For hundreds of years! There was this sorcerer, you see. I did a terrible thing.' 'In a shop?' said Twoflower. 'Oh, yes. I can't remember what it was he wanted, but when he asked for it I – I gave one of those sucking-in noises, you know, like whistling only backwards?' He demonstrated. Twoflower looked sombre, but he was at heart a kind man and always ready to forgive. 'I see,' he said slowly. 'Even so —' 'That's not all!' 'Oh.' 'I told him there was no demand for it!' 'After making the sucking noise?' 'Yes. I probably grinned, too.' 'Oh, dear. You didn't call him squire, did you?' 'I – I may have done.' 'Um.' 'There's more.' 'Surely not?' 'Yes, I said I could order it and he could come back next day.' 'That doesn't sound too bad,' said Twoflower, who alone of all the people in the multiverse allowed shops to order things for him and didn't object at all to paying quite large sums of money to reimburse the shopkeeper for the inconvenience of having a bit of stock in his store often for several hours. 'It was early closing day,' said the shopkeeper. 'Oh.' 'Yes, and I heard him rattling the doorhandle, I had this sign on the door, you know, it said something like “Closed even for the sale of Necromancer cigarettes,” anyway, I heard him banging and I laughed.' 'You laughed?' 'Yes. Like this. Hnufhnufhnufblort.' 'Probably not a wise thing to do,' said Twoflower, shaking his head. 'I know, I know. My father always said, he said, Do not peddle in the affairs of wizards . . . Anyway, I heard him shouting something about never closing again, and a lot of words I couldn't understand, and then the shop – the shop – the shop came alive.' 'And you've wandered like this ever since?' 'Yes. I suppose one day I might find the sorcerer and perhaps the thing he wanted will be in stock. Until then I must go from place to place —' 'That was a terrible thing to do,' said Twoflower. The shopkeeper wiped his nose on his apron. 'Thank you,' he said. 'Even so, he shouldn't have cursed you quite so badly,' Twoflower added. 'Oh. Yes, well.' The shopkeeper straightened his apron and made a brave little attempt to pull himself together. 'Anyway, this isn't getting you to Ankh-Morpork, is it?' 'Funny thing is,' said Twoflower, 'that I bought my Luggage in a shop like this, once. Another shop, I mean.' 'Oh yes, there's several of us,' said the shopkeeper, turning back to the table, 'that sorcerer was a very impatient man, I understand.' 'Endlessly roaming through the universe,' mused Twoflower. 'That's right. Mind you, there is a saving on the rates.' 'Rates?' 'Yes, they're—' the shopkeeper paused, and wrinkled his forehead. 'I can't quite remember, it was such a long time ago. Rates, rates —' 'Very large mice?' 'That's probably it.' 'Hold on – it's thinking about something,' said Cohen. Lackjaw looked up wearily. It had been quite nice, sitting here in the shade. He had just worked out that in trying to escape from a city of crazed madmen he had appeared to have allowed one mad man to give him his full attention. He wondered whether he would live to regret this. He earnestly hoped so. 'Oh yes, it's definitely thinking,' he said bitterly. 'Anyone can see that.' 'I think it's found them.' 'Oh, good.' 'Hold onto it.' 'Are you mad?' said Lackjaw. 'I know this thing, trust me. Anyway, would you rather be left with all these star people? They might be interested in having a talk with you.' Cohen sidled over to the Luggage, and then flung himself astride it. It took no notice. 'Hurry up,' he said. 'I think it's going to go.' Lackjaw shrugged, and climbed on gingerly behind Cohen. 'Oh?' he said, 'and how does it g —' Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course – it was not round and shiny – but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc. There have been bigger cities. There have been richer cities. There have certainly been prettier cities. But no city in the multiverse could rival Ankh-Morpork for its smell. The Ancient Ones, who know everything about all the universes and have smelt the smells of Calcutta and !Xrc —! and dauntocum Marsport, have agreed that even these fine examples of nasal poetry are mere limericks when set against the glory of the Ankh-Morpork smell. You can talk about ramps. You can talk about garlic. You can talk about France. Go on. But if you haven't smelled Ankh-Morpork on a hot day you haven't smelled anything. The citizens are proud of it. They carry chairs outside to enjoy it on a really good day. They puff out their cheeks and slap their chests and comment cheerfully on its little distinctive nuances. They have even put up a statue to it, to commemorate the time when the troops of a rival state tried to invade by stealth one dark night and managed to get to the top of the walls before, to their horror, their nose plugs gave out. Rich merchants who ave spent many years abroad sent back home for specially-stoppered and sealed bottles of the stuff, which brings tears to their eyes. It has that kind of effect. There is only really one way to describe the effect the smell of Ankh-Morpork has on the visiting nose, and that is by analogy. Take a tartan. Sprinkle it with confetti. Light it with strobe lights. Now take a chameleon. Put the chameleon on the tartan. Watch it closely. See? Which explains why, when the shop finally materialised in Ankh-Morpork, Rincewind sat bolt upright and said 'We're here,' Bethan went pale and Twoflower, who had no sense of smell, said, 'Really? How can you tell?' It had been a long afternoon. They had broken into realspace in a number of walls in a variety of cities because, according to the shopkeeper, the Disc's magical field was playing up and upsetting everything. All the cities were empty of most of their citizens and belonged to roaming gangs of crazed left-ear people. 'Where do they all come from?' said Twoflower, as they fled yet another mob. 'Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out,' said the shopkeeper. 'That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.' 'That doesn't make sense,' said Bethan, 'or if it makes sense, I don't like it.' . The star was bigger than the sun. There would be no night tonight. On the opposite horizon the Disc's own sunlet was doing its best to set normally, but the general effect of all that red light was to make the city, never particularly beautiful, look like something painted by a fanatical artist after a bad time on the shoe polish. But it was home. Rincewind peered up and down the mpty street and felt almost happy. At the back of his mind the Spell was kicking up a ruckus, but he ignored it. Maybe it was true that magic was getting weaker as the star got nearer, or perhaps he'd had the Spell in his head for so long he had built up some kind of psychic immunity, but he found he could resist it.

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