The description of how Moist von Lipwig walks through the huge, dusty piles and piles of decaying envelopes At this point the Fall of the Post Office is ancient history in Ankh-Morpork, and yet he sees it as it was, the humble grandeur of it, the violence it took to shut it down
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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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It's just one particularly dramatic example, but there's *so many letters* in the undelivered stacks How many of them could've changed a life if they'd arrived on time How great was the betrayal, to lie to all those people and take their words and throw them away
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How different a place might this shitty corrupt city be today if 50 years ago all those intended messages had gotten through
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Hearing the tiny scratchy voices of all the whispering ghosts, on matters great and small, noble and coarse, tender and cruel
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"I wish to cancel my subscription to..." "...pleased to inform you the position remains open..." "...so beautiful, I sent you a picture. Wish you were..." "...having considered your offer, am willing to drop..." "...whatever I said doesn't matter anymore, please come home..."
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The whispers of the unheard, their frustration, their rage, their grief, building up to a roar A tornado of swirling sheafs of paper with the same psychic energy as the ghost of someone murdered, charged with the same collective sense of loss, screaming "DELIVER US"
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It's one of those perfect moments that is both a ridiculous pun and something very painful and real Of course, when he wrote it, it wasn't THAT real
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Who'd have thought at this late date "snail mail" would be this relevant? (Even Going Postal is about the Post Office having been replaced by the fantasy telegraph, the clacks) Who'd imagine huge piles of scattered envelopes on the post office floor happening in America today
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I hated it when I got a letter in the mail and found out that my dead girlfriend had twin babies with my archnemesis and hid them away in Europe where they rapidly aged to adulthood
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Well if they'd sent an email you wouldn't have been able to confirm their story by doing a DNA test comparing the saliva residue on the envelope and the sample of her corpse you collected by digging up her grave
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Gravedigging is unnecessary. The babies have saliva, and, as you know, babies put everything in their mouths.
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Replying to @SophiaCharmed @Nymphomachy
No the babies were the ones who sent the letter, the girlfriend has been dead for years
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