[Rincewind flinches but allows Jeff's hand to settle as they walk away.
...For about three seconds. Then he's shrugging it off with a sharp look, struck with the terrible urge to grab Jeff and shake some understanding into him.]
Just a hat? Just a hat? You have no idea! You don't have any actual respect for wizardry, don't pretend otherwise. To you this all just a bit of - bit of costuming!
Well do you know what it is to me? It's my life. It's twenty years spent in University. It's the only bloody thing I have to prove that I am what I am. [to himself and to others.] A wizard without a hat isn't a wizard at all.
And that man - [with a dark glance back over his shoulder] - is selling them for sixteen dollars a go.
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...For about three seconds. Then he's shrugging it off with a sharp look, struck with the terrible urge to grab Jeff and shake some understanding into him.]
Just a hat? Just a hat? You have no idea! You don't have any actual respect for wizardry, don't pretend otherwise. To you this all just a bit of - bit of costuming!
Well do you know what it is to me? It's my life. It's twenty years spent in University. It's the only bloody thing I have to prove that I am what I am. [to himself and to others.] A wizard without a hat isn't a wizard at all.
And that man - [with a dark glance back over his shoulder] - is selling them for sixteen dollars a go.