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the ruff around its neck, and the very small alligator.
Corporal Carrot sat and listened.
"He made us do it," said the little man. He had a surprisingly
deep voice. "He used to beat us. Even the alligator. That was all
he understood, hitting things with sticks. And he used to take all
the money the dog Toby collected and get drunk. And then we ran
away and he caught us in the alley and started on Judy and the
baby and he fell over and --"
"Who hit him first?" said Carrot.
"All of us!"
"But not very hard," said Carrot. "You're all too small. You didn't kill him.
I have a very
convincing statement about that. So I went and had another look at him.
He'd choked to death. What's
this?"
He held up a little leather disc.
"It's a swozzle," said the little policeman. "He used it for the
voices. He said ours weren't funny ecomp.sys.atari.8bit "That's the way to do it!" said the one called Judy.
It was stuck in his throat," said Carrot. "I suggest you run
away. Just as far as you can."
"We thought we could start a people's co-operative," said the
leading gnome.
"You know... experimental drama, street theatre, that sort of
thing. Not hitting each other with sticks..."
"You did that for *children*?" said Carrot.
"He said it was a new sort of entertainment. He said it'd catch on."
Carrot stood up, and flicked the swozzle into the rubbish.
"People'll never stand for it," he said. "That's not the way to
do it."
(C) Terry Pratchett 1993
[*] Which is flat and goes through space on the back of an enormous
turtle, and why not...
"Theatre of Cruelty" was originally written for the W. H. Smith
"Bookcase" magazine. The expanded version reproduced above was later
published in the program bookhttp://www.unc.edu/~beiles/atari.html This online version of the story is made available on the Net by kind
indulgence of the author, who reserves all reproduction and other
rights to the story. In his own words: "I don't want to see it in
distributed print anywhere but don't mind people downloading it for
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