#terry-pratchett — Public Fediverse posts
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The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying. It was much simpler with camels.
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Looking into Granny's eyes was like looking into a mirror. What you saw looking back at you was yourself and there was no hiding-place. (Maskerade)
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Nanny rather liked the theatrical world. It was its own kind of magic. That was why Esme disliked it, she reckoned. It was the magic of illusions and misdirection and foolery, and that was fine by Nanny Ogg, because you couldn’t be married three times without a little fooling. (Maskerade)
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Wishing a very happy birthday to the marvelous Isobel Pearson, from everyone at the International Discworld Convention!
We hope you're having a fantastic day!
#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #DiscworldBirthday #TerryPratchett #DiscworldEmporium
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‘Honestly, Salzella ... what is the difference between opera and madness?’
‘Is this a trick question?’
‘No!’
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In "The Wee Free Men," a parasitic world exists. It's the land of the Elves, which attaches to a more solid one while the Elves terrorize people. Tiffany Aching, a young witch, notices that things look fuzzy if no one is paying attention to them.
AI works the same way.
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‘You don’t expect real royalty to pay its way. That’s one of the signs of real royalty, not having any money.’
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"Isemplee withered. “I’ve been progressing,” he lied. “Only, my draft washed away…”
“If you’ve been having trouble, you should have come to me during office hours.”
“I did,” said Isemplee. “Your door was locked.”
Occum sniffed. “I value independent thinking in my students.”"
Charlie Winter's #funny #shortstory "Subject: crocodile" in issue 20. Great for fans of #TerryPratchett's Unseen University.
#humor #humour #shortstories #fiction #absurd #funnyfantasy #funnySF
https://onceuponacrocodile.wordpress.com/current-issue/subject-crocodile/
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…she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn’t mean to say she approved of it.
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... the dimension of the imagination is much more complex than those of space and time, which are very junior dimensions indeed ...
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Tubi currently has "The Colour of Magic" if you wish to see Mr. Curry as a great antagonist:
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“As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.”
- Terry Prachett, The Light Fantastic
#Discworld #gnuterrypratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #terrypratchett #sirterrypratchett #books #bookstodon
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This isn’t food. No one expects it to be food. If people wanted food they’d stay at home, isn’t that so? They come here for ambience. For the experience. This isn’t cookery, Bill. This is cuisine.’
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Just 24 hours after our last post, everyone at the Convention is extremely saddened by the loss of Tim Curry. Tim played Trymon in the 2008 Sky One TV adaptation of Sir Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic.
In a nod to one of Tim's most famous roles, in 2010 the #DiscworldConvention staged the (never to be forgotten) Rocky Horror Discworld Show!
Tim and his magnificent voice will be very much missed.
#DiscworldConvention #TimCurry #TheColourOfMagic #TerryPratchett #Discworld #GNUTimCurry
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“Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead…”
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Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film #Film #RockyHorrorShow #Culture #Legend #StephenKing #Books #FilmAdaptations #Television #TelevisionRadio #TomStoppard #Stage #MontyPython #TerryPratchett
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Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80
By Andrew PulverA prolific performer across stage, screen and TV, the actor starred in Legend, Clue and It, but will always be associated with the flamboyantly camp rock’n’roll musical in which he made his breakthrough
#Film #RockyHorrorShow #Culture #Legend #StephenKing #Books #Filmadaptations #Television #Televisionradio #TomStoppard #Stage #MontyPython #TerryPratchett #TheGuardian #AndrewPulver
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'I hate it when people are nice to me. It means something bad is going to happen.' (Interesting Times)
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It was a cold night, the type of night when frost and fog fight for domination and every sound is muffled.
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…fossils were well-known on the Discworld, great spiralled shells and badly-constructed creatures that were left over from the time when the Creator hadn’t really decided what He wanted to make and was, as it were, just idly messing around with the Pleistocene.
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And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it’s not murder if you do it for a god). (Small Gods)
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FWhen Nobby had gone Vimes reached behind the desk and picked up a faded copy of Twurp’s Peerage or, as he personally thought of it, the guide to the criminal classes. You wouldn’t find slum dwellers in these pages, but you would find their landlords. And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions. (Feet of Clay)
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A flash of inspiration struck him with all the force and brilliance that ideas have when they’re travelling through beer. (Last Continent)
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The vermine is a small black and white relative of the lemming, found in the cold Hublandish regions. Its skin is rare and highly valued, especially by the vermine itself; the selfish little bastard will do anything rather than let go of it.
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“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
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Making history, it turned out, was quite easy. It was what got written down. It was as simple as that.
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‘...and then Jack chopped down the beanstalk, adding murder and ecological vandalism to the theft, enticement and trespass charges already mentioned, but he got away with it and lived happily ever after without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done. Which proves that you can be excused just about anything if you’re a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.’
(Hogfather)
