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Re:The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) by redwall_hp on Saturday March 07, 2020 @12:21PM (#22512702)
That sounds a lot like the basic idea behind Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
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Re:The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) by bertil on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @12:41PM (#22536998)
It is, although more XIXth-Century realism, so darker: someone who was drinking at a bar reappears as a ruined alcoholic later. Someone who got rich suddenly turned mean.

A lot of the speculation on the forty-something unfinished books are based on those trajectories.

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