Pages 45-86 Summary

Days blur while Mort does chores or browses in the library, whose biographies gradually write themselves until the subjects die. Mort gets an afternoon off and ends up in Ankh-Mopork. He gets lost in the inner city, and is surrounded by thugs. The leader demands Mort's moneybag and threatens his life. Mort makes to throw the money into the river. Mort backs through a stone wall. The thieves argue the impossibility until two of they lie dead. Death decides to let Mort solo. Mort finds himself inside a Klatchian home, seeing father, mother, and six children staring at him while a grandparent gorges. The husband sells Mort the Patrician's champion racehorse , which Mort rides to Sto Lat. Seeing Mort walk repeatedly into a wall, a blacksmith refers him to a wizard, Igneous Cutwell. Mort asks the wizard how he can walk...