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'How did you know that?'

'An Igor learnth to antithipate, thur,' said Igor 'What a wonderful little kitchen, thur I've never theen a drawer marked 'Thpoonth' which jutht hath thpoonth in it'

'Are you any good at working with glass, Igor?' said Jere the toast 'You're not?'

'No, thur I a at it, thur Many marthterth have needed thpethial apparatuth not obtainable elthewhere, thur What wath it you wanted?'

'Hoould we go about building this?' Jeremy spread the sheet on the table The slice of toast dropped fro?' said Jererave, thur,' said Igor, still looking shocked 'Er, you haven't actually ever had a grave, have you?' said Jereure of thpeech,' said Igor, looking hurt 'This is an idea I've I've had for a clock'

'The Glath Clock,' said Igor 'Yeth I know about it My grandfather Igor helped build the firtht one'

'The first one? But it's just a story for children! And I dreaor alwayth thaid there wath thoor 'The ecthplothion and everything'

'It exploded? Because of the ?'

'Not ecthactly an ecthplothion,' said Igor 'We're no thtrangerth to ecthplothionth, uth Igorth It wathvery odd And we're no thtrangerth to odd, either'

'Are you telling or seeain, no'

'Things either exist or they don't,' said Jeremy 'I am very clear about that I have or, 'and then, after it did, it never had Thith ith what randfather told me, and he built that clock with thethe very handth!' Jerenarled, and, now he came to look at them, had a lot of scar tissue around the wrists 'We really believe in heirlooaze 'Sort of hand-me-downs, ahahaha,' said Jeremy He wondered where his or 'But Grandfather Igor alwayth thaid that afterwardth it wath like a dream, thur'

'A dream'

'The workthop wath different The clock wathn't there Dele, that wath hith lath clock at all but on a way of ecthtracting thunthine froth were different and they alwayth had been, thur Like it had never happened'

'But it turned up in a book for children!'

'Yeth, thur Bit of a conundrum, thur' Jeremy stared at the sheet with its burden of scribbles An accurate clock That's all it was A clock that'd make all other clocks unnecessary, Lady LeJean had said Building a clock like that wouldhistory True, the book had said that Tiot trapped in the clock, but Jeres that were Made Up Anyway, a clock just led up in a tape ht Light with teeth He'd seen that in the dreaht in the sky, but as an excited line, going up and down like a wave 'Could you build soain 'Yeth,' he said, nodding Then he pointed to several large glass containers around the drawing of the central column of the clock 'And I knohat thethe are,' he said 'In ,' said Jereor, carefully ignoring the question 'Can you get copper rodth here, thur?'

'In Ankh-Morpork? Easily'

'And thinc?'

'Lots of it, yes'

'Thulphuric athid?'