Juxtaposition And Dualism

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Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals was a
joy from beginning to end, the author is
a prince among men

Ridiculed fashion items like six-inch
stiletto heels and all kinds of bling,
empty-headed models

Remunerated exorbitantly for glittering
while toiling labourers doing necessary
things are paid next-to-nothing

Pratchett’s depiction of the Discworld
is bathed in a golden light of happiness
everybody joyously engaged

In activities normally depicted as unmitigated
misery, but Pratchett makes war, suffering
and sorrow seem so exciting

Some characters lead such deprived lives, the
Orc, the night-kitchen cook; yet no-one ever
shows signs of depression

Citizens of Ank-Morpork have amazing joie-de-
vivre, his main characters, Nutt the Orc and
Miss Sugarbean

Have fantastic work ethic and integrity, does
Pratchett realize how much the uplifting attitude
of his main characters

Contrast with his cynical omnipresent narrator
perspective, does he see the juxtaposition
between two aspects

His protagonists acting with integrity and his blasé
narrative voice, the dualism must cause a war
in his mind – verily, I suspect

That is happening at present – Orc and Miss Sugar-
bean represent the seven dolls of Capitaine Coq*
who got out of control

While Pratchett is telling a world-weary tale of human
nature, his characters are presenting a morality play
he cannot subdue them

Pratchett cannot impose decadence on his fictional
characters, they are whiter than snow – how much
does this irk him? I would love to know...

[Thank you Michelle Narayan for lending me this book,
a belated birthday present from your cousin in the UK,
you reread twice, I agree, once is not enough, I want to
make notes to remember his witticisms and criticism
as long as I can...]

Terry Pratchett ‘Unseen Academicals’ Doubleday 2009
* Capitaine Coq - One of the seven puppets in Paul
Gallico's book "For The Love Of Seven Dolls"