The trouble is that things *never* get better, they just stay the same, only more so.
Terry Pratchett, Eric
#GNUTerryPratchett
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Since I'm not new, just new to mastadon.art, this will have to do as an #Introduction 馃榿
A nice review of my high #fantasy /attempted #comedy story The Last Philosopher.
If I could be just one thing, it would be the #ghost of #TerryPratchett or maybe #DouglasAdams #GNUTerryPratchett
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
Terry Pratchett, The Truth
It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as
"slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had beed badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.
Ah, but has it been hedgehogged?
Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.
Captain Vimes ponders his problems
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
I always call it 'Tour Flu', because two or three weeks in hot bookshops with hundreds of people usually produces an ailment of some kind. Going on tour is like a box of rare diseases -- you never know what you're going to get.
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
Terry Pratchett, Eric
Death isn't on line. If he was, there would be a sudden drop in the death rate. Although it'd be interesting to see if he'd post things like: DON'T YOU THINK I SOUND LIKE JAMES EARL JONES?
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett
On the fabled hidden continent of Xxxx, somewhere near the rim, there is a lost colony of wizards who wear corks around their pointy hats and live on nothing but prawns.
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpock. Well *technically* they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders found, after a few days, that they didn't own their horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops.
Terry Pratchett, Eric
Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine -- once. Like the Borg, they learn...
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett
1. Los peque帽os hombres libres (Terry Pratchett). Tal vez mi entrega menos favorita del Mundodisco hasta el momento posiblemente en buena medida porque es una novela que no pone nada f谩cil el traducirla. En la versi贸n en espa帽ol optan por hacer hablar a los Nac Mac Feegles en una especie de asturiano con toques gallegos que me sacaba constantemente de la historia. Y no creo que sea una mala decisi贸n de traducci贸n, simplemente me parece que no hab铆a soluci贸n buena. En general las novelas del Mundodisco m谩s orientadas a un p煤blico juvenil las disfruto menos y esta no ha sido una excepci贸n. Pero aun as铆 sigue siendo una novela de Pratchett (#speakHisName) que siempre te deja una sensaci贸n calentita por dentro y te reconcilia un poco con el mundo.
New Year's Eve. Time to remember the voices in the aether that have fallen silent over the years. It's 25 years since I had my first loss of an online friend, with Antti Lehtola of afp dying far too young. Growing older means having more of the people I knew who didn't grow older.
For you all - as ever, you are still loved and still missed.
GNU so many others.
We'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic