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‘“Every bottle matured for up to seven minutes”,’ quoted Colon. ‘“Ha’ a drop afore ye go”, it says on the label. Damn right, too. I had a drop once, and I went all day.’
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🍀 Archäologin & Autorin seit Kurzem #neuhier
Ich teile meine #Forschung zu ägyptisch-griechischer Magie regelmäßig auf meinem Blog und poste #OpenAccess Leseempfehlungen.
Und ich berate Kreative in Sachen #Antike und speziell zu meinem Forschungsschwerpunkt: Ägyptisch-Griechische #Magie :-) Aktuell: Beneath Crimson Sails (2026) the first ever pirate #vertical drama 🙃 🙂 🍿
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Lancre's only other singer of note was Nanny Ogg, whose attitude to songs was purely ballistic. You just pointed your voice at the end of the verse and went for it. (Maskerade)
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'Legends are prone to inflation.'
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He believed, against all experience, that the world was fundamentally understandable, and that if he could only equip himself with the right mental toolbox he could take the back off and see how it worked. He was, of course, dead wrong.
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Heaven, Hell, and Everything I... -
The unofficial entrance to the University has always been known only to students. What most students failed to remember was that the senior members of the faculty had also been students once, and also liked to get out and about after the official shutting of the gates. This naturally led to a certain amount of embarrassment and diplomacy on dark evenings.
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At last IIa said, ‘What does “quantum” mean anyway?’
IIb shrugged. ‘It means add another nought,’ he said.
‘Oh,’ said IIa, ‘is that all?’
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…it’s the view of the more thoughtful historians, particularly those who have spent time in the same bar as the theoretical physicists, that the entirety of human history can be considered as a sort of blooper reel. All those wars, all those famines caused by malign stupidity, all that determined, mindless repetition of the same old errors, are in the great cosmic scheme of things only equivalent to Mr Spock’s ears falling off. (Last Continent)
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He wasn't certain what unisex was but expected that it was what he normally experienced. (Interesting Times)
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What he wanted was a couple of cool beers, a cold bath and a change of clothing; it probably wouldn’t make him feel better, but it would at least make feeling awful more enjoyable.
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‘Want to stay on here? I had a word with your Dean. He gave you a bloody good reference.’
‘Did he? What did he say?’
‘He said if I could get you to do any work for me I’d be lucky’, said Bill. (Last Continent) -
Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realising that most of his customers want meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits. (Men at Arms)
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‘Our stars are entwined,’ said Casanunda. ‘We’re fated for one another. I wants your body, Mrs. Ogg.’
‘I’m still using it.’ (Lords and Ladies) -
There was considerable satisfaction in a clean kill. What there wasn't supposed to be was pleasure in a messy one.
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People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub. (Maskerade)
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There should be a word for words that sound like things would sound like if they made a noise, he thought. The word ‘glisten’ does indeed gleam oilily, and if ever there was a word that sounded exactly the way sparks look as they creep across burned paper, or the way lights of cities would creep across the world if the whole of human civilization was crammed into one night, then you couldn’t do better than ‘coruscate’.
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Hanging around is another thing tortoises are very good at. They’re practically world champions. (Small Gods)
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Ridcully was beginning to show certain signs. If he had been a volcano, natives living nearby would be looking for a handy virgin. (Soul Music)
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Single Book Spotlight
Book Featured:
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
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‘… if complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet armour and shouting “All gods are bastards’.
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
The role of listeners has never been fully appreciated. However, it is well known that most people don’t listen. They use the time when someone else is speaking to think of what they’re going to say next. True Listeners have always been revered among oral cultures, and prized for their rarity value; bards and poets are ten a cow, but a good Listener is hard to find, or at least hard to find twice.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 7, Pyramids (1989)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8392…
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