Carpe Jugulum

Perdita thought that not obeying rules was somehow cool. Agnes thought that rules like “Don’t fall into this huge pit of spikes” were there for a purpose.

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Lancre operated on the feudal system, which was to say, everyone feuded all the time and handed on the fight to their descendants.

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“There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example.”
– “And what do they think? Against it, are they?”
– “It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”
– “Nope.”
– “Pardon?”
– “There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
– “It’s a lot more complicated than that—”
– “No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
– “Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes—”
– “But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

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This was a test. Everything was a test. Everything was a competition. Life put them in front of you every day. You watched yourself all the time. You had to make choices. You never get told which ones were right.

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