Post #3497468
2026-06-30 19:39 UTC
If you're not familiar with Sam Vimes, he's a character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. He's captain of the watch.
The Boots theory comes from Men at Arms...
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@kevlin@mastodon.social 2026-06-30 19:40
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. "A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.
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@tastapod@mas.to 2026-07-01 09:54
@kevlin@mastodon.social I love this whole sequence. Even more significant when you know that Sam Vimes was Terry writing himself into his novels.