Night Watch, Terry Pratchett, Audiobook extract, Narration, English
Description
Vocal Characteristics
Language
EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)Transcript
Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. Some were young people with no money who objected to the fact that the world was run by old people who were rich. Some were in it to get girls and some had been idiots as mad as swing with a view of the world just as rigid and unreal who were on the side of what they called. The people. Vines had spent his life on the streets and had met decent men and fools and people who'd steal a penny from a blind beggar and people who performed silent miracles or desperate crimes every day behind the grubby windows of little houses. But he'd never met the people. People on the side of the people always ended up disappointed in any case. They found that the people tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward thinking or obedient. The people tended to be small minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the Children of the revolution were faced with the age old problem. It wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious but that you had the wrong kind of people.