He grabs one random ancient letter off the stack and drops it off at the listed address on impulse And the next day is confronted by an elderly man and woman who are finally getting married after 50 years, because her confession of love was lost in the mail
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If a letter undelivered is a little death, a tiny gasp of unfinished business, then a vote uncast is that twice over And the ghost of those dead letters is a ghost of a better world that could have been if that sacred trust had been upheld, if those voices had been heard
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In Pratchett's goofy po-mo universe every little subculture, every random profession and avocation and fandom gets its own religion, its own gods and its own afterlife Every postman hopes their soul arrives at its destination signed, sealed, delivered
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Louis DeJoy might want to check on whether his own soul has sufficient postage and insurance Because there's a high chance that when he passes on, karma loses him in the back of the truck, and writes him off as "Lost and Undeliverable"
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It's interesting that Going Postal also introduce the concept of incremental murder. Every bad deed that worsens someone's life, every tiny deed piles up. And when you're the postmaster, well then you are responsible for so many tiny deeds.
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I loved that part of the book. The brutally matter-of-fact way the golem accuses him of murdering a dozen people - not directly, but through hundreds of selfish actions that carelessly ruined lives for his own profit. Feels like a timely conceit.
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