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As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.
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As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.
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Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, ‘It’s indoor work with no heavy lifting …’ (Small Gods)
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Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, ‘It’s indoor work with no heavy lifting …’ (Small Gods)
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She had got ‘diuerse’ out of the Almanack, which she read every night. It was always predicting ‘diuerse plagues’ and ‘diurse ill-fortune’. Granny wasn’t entirely sure what it meant but it was a damn good word all the same.
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She had got ‘diuerse’ out of the Almanack, which she read every night. It was always predicting ‘diuerse plagues’ and ‘diurse ill-fortune’. Granny wasn’t entirely sure what it meant but it was a damn good word all the same.
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Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before.
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus:
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. (Lords and Ladies) -
Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before.
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus:
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. (Lords and Ladies) -
There is nowhere Death will not go, no matter how distant and dangerous. In fact the more dangerous it is, the more likely he is to be there already.
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There is nowhere Death will not go, no matter how distant and dangerous. In fact the more dangerous it is, the more likely he is to be there already.
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But Magrat, like this, frightened him more than the elves. It was like being charged by sheep. (Lords and Ladies)
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But Magrat, like this, frightened him more than the elves. It was like being charged by sheep. (Lords and Ladies)
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People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they’re standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don’t look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. (Feet of Clay)
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People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they’re standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don’t look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. (Feet of Clay)
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... there was probably no combination of vowels that could do justice to the cry Nanny Ogg made on seeing a young baby. It included sounds known only to cats. (Carpe Jugulum)
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... there was probably no combination of vowels that could do justice to the cry Nanny Ogg made on seeing a young baby. It included sounds known only to cats. (Carpe Jugulum)
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“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.” (Moving Pictures)
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“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.” (Moving Pictures)
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At the beginning of the year, I decided to read the entire Discworld series (about half will be re-reading). Since I don't have much time, I read slowly. So I just finished Equal Rites. At this pace, I'll finish all the books around May 2036. Hooray! 😀
#Discworld #terrypratchett #bookstodon #currentlyreading #fantasy
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At the beginning of the year, I decided to read the entire Discworld series (about half will be re-reading). Since I don't have much time, I read slowly. So I just finished Equal Rites. At this pace, I'll finish all the books around May 2036. Hooray! 😀
#Discworld #terrypratchett #bookstodon #currentlyreading #fantasy
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‘There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’
‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.’ (Carpe Jugulum) -
‘There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’
‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.’ (Carpe Jugulum) -
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There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings.
The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired* – but that’s not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there is always something before. It’s always a case of Now Read On.
*Probably at the first pawn. (Lords and Ladies) -
There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings.
The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired* – but that’s not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there is always something before. It’s always a case of Now Read On.
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Am I the only one who misses the hell out of Terry Pratchett? And wishes he had a new book coming out?
#TerryPratchett #FantasyAuthors #writing #writers #WritersCoffeeClub
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Am I the only one who misses the hell out of Terry Pratchett? And wishes he had a new book coming out?
#TerryPratchett #FantasyAuthors #writing #writers #WritersCoffeeClub
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... Mort was one of those people who are more dangerous than a bag of rattlesnakes. He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe.
Which was going to be hard, because there wasn’t one. The Creator had a lot of remarkably good ideas when he put the world together, but making it understandable hadn’t been one of them.
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... Mort was one of those people who are more dangerous than a bag of rattlesnakes. He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe.
Which was going to be hard, because there wasn’t one. The Creator had a lot of remarkably good ideas when he put the world together, but making it understandable hadn’t been one of them.
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And so Agnes has finally sung... the International Discworld Convention 2026 is now (officially) closed!
We have loved seeing you all, and hope you've had just as much fun as we have.
Here's to 2028!
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As a boy I had a clear image of the Almighty: He had a tail coat and pinstriped trousers, black, slicked-down hair and an aquiline nose.
On the whole, I was probably a rather strange child, and I wonder what my life might have been like if I'd met a decent theologian when I was nine. -
As a boy I had a clear image of the Almighty: He had a tail coat and pinstriped trousers, black, slicked-down hair and an aquiline nose.
On the whole, I was probably a rather strange child, and I wonder what my life might have been like if I'd met a decent theologian when I was nine. -
‘Well, there’s…’ Colon racked his brains. ‘There’s al-gebra. That’s like sums with letters. For…for people whose brains aren’t clever enough for numbers, see?’
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‘Well, there’s…’ Colon racked his brains. ‘There’s al-gebra. That’s like sums with letters. For…for people whose brains aren’t clever enough for numbers, see?’
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Reading Tove Jansson was a major inspiration for Terry Pratchett.
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Reading Tove Jansson was a major inspiration for Terry Pratchett.
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‘You mean just because she’s a woman she should use sexual wiles on him?’ said Magrat. ‘This is so ... so ... well, it’s so Nanny Ogg, that’s all I can say.’
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‘You mean just because she’s a woman she should use sexual wiles on him?’ said Magrat. ‘This is so ... so ... well, it’s so Nanny Ogg, that’s all I can say.’
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The Librarian was, of course, very much in favour of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. (Men at Arms)
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The Librarian was, of course, very much in favour of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. (Men at Arms)
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@josgeluk @Eetschrijver Lees #terrypratchett .
Dwergen eten stevig brood en gebruiken het in oorlogen ook als wapen.
In zijn boeken ben ik het recept helaas niet tegengekomen.
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@josgeluk @Eetschrijver Lees #terrypratchett .
Dwergen eten stevig brood en gebruiken het in oorlogen ook als wapen.
In zijn boeken ben ik het recept helaas niet tegengekomen.
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… although it was a complicated recipe one taste had been enough to know that it was made out of fish entrails marinated for several years in a vat of shark bile.
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… although it was a complicated recipe one taste had been enough to know that it was made out of fish entrails marinated for several years in a vat of shark bile.
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The landlord of the Fiddler’s Riddle considered himself to be a man of the world, and this was right, because he was too stupid to be really cruel, and too lazy to be really mean and although his body had been around quite a lot his mind had never gone further than the inside of his own head.
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The landlord of the Fiddler’s Riddle considered himself to be a man of the world, and this was right, because he was too stupid to be really cruel, and too lazy to be really mean and although his body had been around quite a lot his mind had never gone further than the inside of his own head.
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Washing-up is a badge of membership anywhere. (Maskerade)
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Washing-up is a badge of membership anywhere. (Maskerade)
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…it was possible to believe that this wonderful state of affairs might continue.
And even if it didn’t, then there were the memories to get them through. Of running, and people getting out of the way. Of the looks on the faces of the horrible palace guard. Of, when all the thieves and heroes and gods had failed, of being there. Of nearly doing things nearly right.
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…it was possible to believe that this wonderful state of affairs might continue.
And even if it didn’t, then there were the memories to get them through. Of running, and people getting out of the way. Of the looks on the faces of the horrible palace guard. Of, when all the thieves and heroes and gods had failed, of being there. Of nearly doing things nearly right.
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In the dim light she could see Granny’s face which seemed to be suggesting that if Magrat was at her wits’ end, it was a short stroll.
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In the dim light she could see Granny’s face which seemed to be suggesting that if Magrat was at her wits’ end, it was a short stroll.
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Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?