Terry Pratchett: Soul Music
Illetve ebből egy részlet. "Rats had featured largely in the history of Ankh-Morpork. Shortly before the Patrician came to power there was a terrible plague of rats. The city council countered it by offering twenty pence for every rat tail. This did, for a week or two, reduce the number of rats - and then people were suddenly queuing up with tails, the city treasury was being drained, and no-one seemed to be doing much work. And there still seemed to be a lot of rats around. Lord Vetinari had listened carefully while the problem was explained, and had solved the thing with one memorable phrase which said a lot about him, about the folly of bounty offers, and about the natural instinct of Ankh-Morporkians in any situation involving money: 'Tax the rat farms.'" A patkányok korábban is fontos szerepet játszottak Ankh-Morpork történetében. Röviddel a Patrícius hatalomra kerülése előtt a várost elárasztották a patkányok. A városi tanács megoldásként húsz pennyt ajánlott mi...