- Oh, do you play at all, commander? - said Helmclever, with the hungry look of a true enthusaist. <...>
- Lord Vetinari does. It's never interested me, - said Vimes.
Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks round, the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves.
Ыыы, в Ваймсе заговорил Джон Киль, великий революционер. Читаю и свунюсь.
Я уж молчу про Lord Vetinari does. Витинари всегда у Ваймса