Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.
Terry PratchettIt must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.
Terry PratchettYou are in favour of the common people?โ said Dragon mildly. The common people?โ said Vimes. โTheyโre nothing special. Theyโre no different from the rich and powerful except theyโve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose Iโve got to be on their side.
Terry Pratchett