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Bon dia, Egun on, Bos dias ... a ver cómo se da la semana, que la última del mes siempre trae incordios, desaguisados, y esas cosas ... antes café para conectar neuronas :grinch_coffe: ... Eso sí Feliz Glorioso 25 de Mayo "¡Verdad, Justicia, Libertad, Amor a un precio razonable... y un huevo duro!" #Caos #ElHiloLaLia #FedHilo #HasTag #pratchett
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Eso me recuerda a Rincewind en Rechicero cuando dice si sale algo del agua y empieza a caminar, dile que no merece la pena ... 🤣 #Pratchett #mundodisco
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Eso me recuerda a Rincewind en Rechicero cuando dice si sale algo del agua y empieza a caminar, dile que no merece la pena ... 🤣 #Pratchett #mundodisco
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Eso me recuerda a Rincewind en Rechicero cuando dice si sale algo del agua y empieza a caminar, dile que no merece la pena ... 🤣 #Pratchett #mundodisco
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In a field, and have run out of charity shop books, so ye olde kindle it is, with a re-read #discworld #pratchett #bookstodon
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In a field, and have run out of charity shop books, so ye olde kindle it is, with a re-read #discworld #pratchett #bookstodon
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In a field, and have run out of charity shop books, so ye olde kindle it is, with a re-read #discworld #pratchett #bookstodon
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In a field, and have run out of charity shop books, so ye olde kindle it is, with a re-read #discworld #pratchett #bookstodon
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In a field, and have run out of charity shop books, so ye olde kindle it is, with a re-read #discworld #pratchett #bookstodon
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I started reading #Discworld books in my mid teens, and I've generally tried reading them in order of publications, though I've made mistakes over the years and skipped here and there. Anyway, I have half a mind to start a Great Reread. Now, since I don't really want to read nothing but #pratchett for the next three years or so (why not?!), I'll probably do it on an alternating basis - one Pratchett one other. Will also require repurchasing many of the books...
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I started reading #Discworld books in my mid teens, and I've generally tried reading them in order of publications, though I've made mistakes over the years and skipped here and there. Anyway, I have half a mind to start a Great Reread. Now, since I don't really want to read nothing but #pratchett for the next three years or so (why not?!), I'll probably do it on an alternating basis - one Pratchett one other. Will also require repurchasing many of the books...
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116596596115746943
"Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four"
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@SunDancer Wir sollten mehr auf Terry #Pratchett hören! Er sagte so viele weise Worte.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 13: What do you borrow from other fiction (or nonfiction!) genres?
From Terry #Pratchett, the explanatory footnotes.
From academia, the extensive citations.
From #TTRPG , a perspective on oral storytelling conventions that many "traditional" folklore researchers lack.
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Wow
„You tell them a lie, and then when you don’t need it any more you tell them another lie and tell them they’re progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they’ll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable.“ -
I have just re-read The Fifth Elephant by #terrypratchett & was a bit embarrassed to say that on my first reading I had missed that a main feature of the story is a parody of the theft and return of the #Scottish Stone of Scone, aka Stone of Destiny, rendered by #Pratchett as the Scone of Stone. As in life & in the book, is the recovered stone/scone real or a fake, & more importantly does it actually matter? The symbolism is the thing.
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Terry Pratchett fans might remember a contraption called the "Glooper" from the book "Making Money". It was a computational model of Anhk-Morpork's economy that worked by sending water through various valves and tubes. In the end, it worked a little too well.
TIL that this sort of machine was used in this world, too, in the 1940s.
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“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News
[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]
The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners
- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s
Israel runs an #Apartheid system
When most people think of Apartheid ...
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“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News
[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]
The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners
- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s
Israel runs an #Apartheid system
When most people think of Apartheid ...
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“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News
[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]
The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners
- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s
Israel runs an #Apartheid system
When most people think of Apartheid ...
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“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News
[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]
The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners
- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s
Israel runs an #Apartheid system
When most people think of Apartheid ...
[1/5]
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“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News
[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]
The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners
- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s
Israel runs an #Apartheid system
When most people think of Apartheid ...
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Has anyone watched "The Watch", loosely based (every loosely) on Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld characters?
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#WritersCoffeeClub April 3rd
Have you studied writing? Did it prepare you, or did you learn more by doing?Not "writing" in particular, but I did have an academic career (including a PhD), which did influence my writing style.
My love of footnotes comes partially from that, and partially from #Pratchett .
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I don't remember which book I tried, but I remember bouncing off Discworld when I tried it. Don't even remember what didn't vibe for me, just that I were 'huh, I don't get it' and moved on. But given everything I've learned about Pratchett since and all the quotes I see you all pass around, it has come to confuse me.
Is there a particular book you all recommend for me to start from if I try it again?
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¿Censuran a quienes avisan contra el totalitarismo (#Atwood, #Pratchett, #Orwell...)?
Entonces no es muy difícil deducir la ideología del censor.
https://bsky.app/profile/fabianplaza.bsky.social/post/3mhnduqzc222f
https://bsky.app/profile/byrobdavies.bsky.social/post/3mhkppta32k2b
This is utterly jaw-dropping.A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils.
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@hacks4pancakes Meat pie floater? Learned that one from #pratchett
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@Xas Any time is Pratchett time. Ask the Monks of History. #Pratchett
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@PetraPhoenix all 5 year olds should be given Pratchett, all 79 year olds . . . #Pratchett is antifa incarnate
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I firmly believe that all 14 year olds should surreptitiously be given Pratchett by someone that isn't a parent.
Especially if they live in a household where they have to hide it because it contains witches.
They are books that teach you how to think, even in the face of extreme authority.
This is my story. I would be a much worse person without having Pratchett books in my life.
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Sir Terry Pratchett.
It has been 11 years since death inexplicably refused to give you back.
You still remain the person who has had the biggest influence on me.
Nanny Ogg teaches me to enjoy life.
Granny Weatherwax teaches me to trust in myself, and not to treat people as things
Magrat teaches me that it is ok not to know exactly what I am doing all the time, but to do things I think are important, even if those older and allegedly wiser don't really agree.
Vimes teaches me about determination, family and justice.There are so many more lessons I learnt from the world you created, and I would not be me without the Discworld.
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Kleiner Tip für nebenbei, falls noch nicht bekannt.
Pratchett hat eine Kurzgeschichte mit der Stadtwache als "public domain" freigegeben.
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Kleiner Tip für nebenbei, falls noch nicht bekannt.
Pratchett hat eine Kurzgeschichte mit der Stadtwache als "public domain" freigegeben.
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Kleiner Tip für nebenbei, falls noch nicht bekannt.
Pratchett hat eine Kurzgeschichte mit der Stadtwache als "public domain" freigegeben.
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Kleiner Tip für nebenbei, falls noch nicht bekannt.
Pratchett hat eine Kurzgeschichte mit der Stadtwache als "public domain" freigegeben.
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Kleiner Tip für nebenbei, falls noch nicht bekannt.
Pratchett hat eine Kurzgeschichte mit der Stadtwache als "public domain" freigegeben.
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Also, this book follows directly on from Wyrd Sisters and both books use as a viewpoint character a king who dies and becomes a ghost, both of whom are rather thick in life but find greater clarity of thought in death.
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#Discworld re-read: Book 7, Pyramids.
Now's here a reference I didn't get the first time.
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While you're here, have a quote as a little treat. Context: The Fools' Guild is on fire.
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I am continuing my #Discworld re-read and I had been looking forward to the experience of reading them in order, right from the beginning. But: currently I'm on holiday and have thus resorted to reading a book my wife packed, #TheFifthElephant.
Which makes quite a contrast. I had just gotten as far as #WyrdSisters (#6) and was thinking "this isn't half bad"; three paragraphs into Elephant and there's a huge step up in quality in every direction.
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@cstross Just been rereading "A Life With Footnotes" by Rob Wilkins (biography of #TerryPrachett). He says that #Pratchett had a list of people he would phone up to discuss plot problems. But frequently he would explain the problem and then suddenly hang up without the person at the other end saying very much.
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@cstross Just been rereading "A Life With Footnotes" by Rob Wilkins (biography of #TerryPrachett). He says that #Pratchett had a list of people he would phone up to discuss plot problems. But frequently he would explain the problem and then suddenly hang up without the person at the other end saying very much.
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@cstross Just been rereading "A Life With Footnotes" by Rob Wilkins (biography of #TerryPrachett). He says that #Pratchett had a list of people he would phone up to discuss plot problems. But frequently he would explain the problem and then suddenly hang up without the person at the other end saying very much.
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@cstross Just been rereading "A Life With Footnotes" by Rob Wilkins (biography of #TerryPrachett). He says that #Pratchett had a list of people he would phone up to discuss plot problems. But frequently he would explain the problem and then suddenly hang up without the person at the other end saying very much.
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@cstross Just been rereading "A Life With Footnotes" by Rob Wilkins (biography of #TerryPrachett). He says that #Pratchett had a list of people he would phone up to discuss plot problems. But frequently he would explain the problem and then suddenly hang up without the person at the other end saying very much.
