And I can see that it may be of help to us—depending, of course, on how much time we can devote to it, and how we react to it as individuals. There are several techniques. Mail was arriving. William the newspaper publisher was used to a certain amount, usually from clients of his news letter complaining that he hadn't told them about the double-headed giants, plagues and rains of domestic animals that they had heard had been happening in Ankh-Morpork; his father had been right about one thing, at least, when he'd asserted that lies could run round the world before the truth could get its boots on.