Pyramids
                                            
                                                            by Terry Pratchett
                                                        
                                2020-08-28 10:35:37
                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                                                ''Look after the dead'', said the priests, ''and the dead will look after you.''Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and you...
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                                                ''Look after the dead'', said the priests, ''and the dead will look after you.''Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and your treasury is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father. 
He’d had the best education money could buy of course, but unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassin''s Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not cover running a kingdom and basic financial acumen...
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