And the worst part, he tells Dangerous Beans and his friend Peaches, is that “Cat’s don’t go around feeling sorry! Or guilty! We never regret anything! Do you know what it feels like, saying, ‘Hello, food, can you talk?’ That’s not how a cat is supposed to behave!” “Old food tins”Īt the heart of Amazing Maurice is the question of what it means to be a human being. Well, yes, Maurice is sorry, so sorry that he still has nightmares. “Are you sorry for what you did?” asked Dangerous Beans. “I didn’t know he was anyone! I didn’t know I was anyone! I ate him! He’d been eating the stuff on the dump and I ate him, so that’s how I got Changed!”… Finally, Maurice has to tell some of the rats his deep, dark secret about his ingestion of Additives. They worked together in an alliance that was, at times, somewhat uneasy. He became friends with the thinking, talking rats, as well as with Keith, a seemingly dopey kid who was good at playing a piper, actually any horn. Result: Maurice could think and talk - and feel guilty and sorry. One of them, Additives, by name, had the bad luck to run into Maurice who, in eating Additives, ingested magic as well. ![]() Magic, being magic, still had enough oomph as trash to transform the rats from brute creatures to thinking beings who could talk and read and, in a manner, write. It all started - as Terry Pratchett explains in his 2001 novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents - when some rats dined on the garbage in the dump outside the wall of the Unseen University of the Discworld Wizards.
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