Andrea Mantegna The Adoration of the Shepherds

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course, allowing for fault escarpments and uniclinal structures, and then‑‘
‘And general crustal shifting.’
‘All right, and then‑‘
‘Unless you’re just cutting and filling, of course.’
‘Granted, but‑‘
‘I don’t see’, Rock began, ‘that my face could be called‑‘
‘SHUT UP!’ screamed Soll. ‘Everyone shut up! SHUT UP! The next person who doesn’t shut up will never work in this town again! Understand? Do I make myself CLEAR? Right.’ He coughed, and continued in a more normal voice: ‘Very well. Now, I want it understood that this is a Breathtaking, Block‑busting Romantic film about a woman’s fight to save the‑‘ he consulted his clipboard, and went on valiantly, ‘‑everything she loves against the background of a World Gone Mad, and I don’t want any more trouble from anyone.’
A dwarf even though it was at‑ the same time only one quarter the size; the Unseen University was more baroque and buttressed; the Patrician’s Palace more pillar’d. Carpenters swarmed over a construction that, when it was finished, would make Ankh­Morpork look like a very indifferent copy of itself, except that the buildings in the original city were not, by and large, painted on canvas stretched over timber and didn’t have the dirt carefully sprayed on. Ankh‑Morpork’s buildings had to get dirty all by themselves.tentatively raised his hand.‘ ‘Scuse me?’‘Yes?’ said Soll.‘Why is it all Mr Dibbler’s films are set against the background of a world gone mad?’ said the dwarf.Soll’s eyes narrowed. ‘Because Mr Dibbler’, he growled, ‘is a very observant man.’ Dibbler had been right. The new city was the old city distilled. Narrow alleys were narrower, tall buildings taller. Gargoyles were more fearsome, roofs more pointed. The towering Tower of Art in Unseen University was, here, even taller and more precariously towering