Hogfather - Hurt

IT IS ... UNFAIR.

'That's life, master.’

BUT I'M NOT.

'I meant this is how it's supposed to go, master,' said Albert.

NO. YOU MEAN THIS IS HOW IT GOES.

Albert leaned against the stove and rolled himself one of his horrible thin cigarettes. It was best to let the master work his own way through these things. He got over them eventually.

It was like that business with the violin. For three days there was nothing but twangs and broken strings, and then he'd never touched the thing again.

That was the trouble, really. Everything the master did was a bit like that. When things got into his head you just had to wait until they leaked out again. He'd thought that Hogswatch was all ... plum pudding and brandy and ho ho ho and he didn't have the kind of mind that could ignore all the other stuff.

And so it hurt him.

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Hogfather - p231