Feet of Clay

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Terry himself describes what he envisages happening next:

“While I wasn’t planning to feature this in another book, I suspect the sequence of events, given Dorfl’s character, would run like this:

I want more golems on the city payroll. How else can they resurrect the fire service?”

The names of the golems, again, are Yiddish. “Klutz” — a clumsy clod or bungler (from German); “Bobkes” — beans, but only metaphorically; something worthless or nonsensical (from Russian); “Shmata” — a rag, or piece of cloth; used both literally and to describe a person of weak character (from Polish).