George Inness Coast Scene

George Inness Coast ScenePierre Auguste Renoir Au bord de la merGustave Caillebotte Paris Street rainy weather
perfectly accurate descrip-tion. And it would be, as Nanny Ogg would say, a bugger to carpet.
“Why? Why a . He’d tried to introduce Ephebian democracy to Lancre, giving the vote to everyone, or at least everyone “who be of good report and who be male and hath forty years and owneth a hosue* worth more than three and a half goats a year,” because there’s no sense in being stupid about things and giving the vote to people who were poor or criminal or insane or female, who’d only use it irresponsibly. It worked, more or less, although the Members of Parliament only turned up when they felt like it and in any case no one ever wrote any-thing down and, besides, no one ever disagreed castle in Lancre?” she said, mainly to her-self, because talking to Millie was like talking to yourself. “We’ve never fought anyone. Apart from outside the tavern on a Saturday night.”“Couldn’t say, I’m sure, m’m,” said Millie.Magrat sighed.“Where’s the king today?”“He’s opening Parliament, m’m.”“Hah! Parliament!”Which had been another of Verence’s ideas