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One of life's finest pleasures: discovering a complete series of novels as an adult, devouring them to the end, and discovering that, while you'd have happily inhabited the author's world for many more volumes, you are *eminently* satisfied with the conclusion. 1/
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I just had this experience and I am still basking in the warm glow of having had such a thoroughly fulfilling imaginary demi-life for half a year. 3/
Many people have said lots of witty & moving things about #Discworld #TerryPratchett and the awful The Watch today.
I shall just add this.
They people behind this were told.
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I shall just add this.
They people behind this were told.
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If this is a ‘mistake’, it is the equivalent of being warned not to climb Ben Nevis in flip flops and a pair of shorts whilst looking at the horizon and saying “oh, they’re just clouds, clouds can’t hurt anyone!”
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The people who made this somehow, gods only know how, failed to recognise that @terryandrob and @rhipratchett are, deep in their hearts & souls, fans. They told them it was umpteen kinds of wrong. They were ignored and dismissed.
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Reminded of this today (thanks @Anatol!) AND it has a story!
My Nan queued up for a signing with #TerryPratchett @terryandrob to give me this book as a gift...
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My Nan queued up for a signing with #TerryPratchett @terryandrob to give me this book as a gift...
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... and there were people there dressed as Granny Weatherwax & ... I can’t remember who else she said. Might’ve been Cheery? Or Angua? I have a feeling it was someone from the Watch. Anyway,
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I don’t know if they were cosplayers or an official part of the event, but my Nan being my Nan insisted that THEY sign the book, too...
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Dr James Hadley explains the sensible way to build a world... #prprcon2020 #TerryPratchett #Discworld @PratchettProj
... and the stupid way 😉
Argh.
What I mean to say is that this is from Ian Stewart's (co-author of The Science of the Discworld books) @JoatStewart presentation. Dr Hadley is the conference host!
What I mean to say is that this is from Ian Stewart's (co-author of The Science of the Discworld books) @JoatStewart presentation. Dr Hadley is the conference host!
As a chemist, shall I tell you what annoys me in this #Watch picture? The graffiti. Not because there's 20th century spray-paint in—what ought to be—a pre-industrial setting, but because #TerryPratchett was fascinated by science & engineering & you KNOW that if he'd WANTED
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spray paint he'd have carefully researched how spray cans work, how the pigments were developed, how solvents ensure a fine, even mist. He'd have looked up the original inventors (Francis Davis Millet & Edward Seymour, for the record) & read about how & why they
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developed aerosol paint, AND THEN he'd have come up with something to explain it all, probably involving imps and the Alchemist's Guild, making clever puns on the inventor's names & undoubtedly somehow referencing the Chicago World Fair & Seymour of Sycamore, then he'd
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This seems like a good time to have a little thread on the #Discworld #TerryPratchett philosophy of not treating people as things...
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If you google this quote, you'll find it referenced to Carpe Jugulum, first published in 1998, in which Granny Weatherwax says:
'sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
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'sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
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But that's not the first mention of the idea. I'm actually not 100% certain (and happy to be corrected), but I think the first time might be Hogfather, first published 1996...
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Right! The #Discworld #TerryPratchett books without the character of Death are Wee Free Men & Snuff.
Not books you'd normally put together: published 8 years apart, one for younger readers, & one... very much not.
But they have more in common than you might think...
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Not books you'd normally put together: published 8 years apart, one for younger readers, & one... very much not.
But they have more in common than you might think...
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This is my copy of Wee Free Men. My Nan got it signed. You can tell, because she gave my full name. She was German by birth, didn't suffer fools & had an aptitude for arithmetic. Until Alzheimer's did its nasty little thing. She died in 2015. It was the year for it, it seems.
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And that all seems rather apt, doesn't it? Because Wee Free Men is, in part, a story of a girl and her grandmother. So perhaps it's not surprising that I have a fondness for this book.
It's also a story about thinking beyond, about seeing through, and...
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It's also a story about thinking beyond, about seeing through, and...
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I have not really mentioned this before on Twitter but, in addition to my many other hobbies, I also enjoy making cakes. I thought I'd share a few of my past creations, as a distraction from our troubles.
I'll start with this #LegendofZelda #WindWaker cake for @nomenloony
I'll start with this #LegendofZelda #WindWaker cake for @nomenloony
Cake for my Grandad's 90th Birthday.
Hickory Dickory Dock cake for my niece. It contained a mechanism and was a fully working clock!
