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quote 2019-12-11 15:22
Hogfather: Discworld, Book 20 - Random House Audiobooks,Terry Pratchett,Nigel Planer
Hogfather (Discworld, #20) - Terry Pratchett
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Page 24 - Gollanz hardcover edition

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quote 2015-11-25 09:53
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It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.

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Precisely why all the above should be so is not so clear but goes some way to explain why, on the disc, the Gods are not so much worshipped as blamed.

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Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.
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quote 2015-11-18 14:21
In a city where public executions,duels, fights, magical feuds, and strange events regularly punctuated the daily round, the inhabitants had brought the profession of interested bystander to a peak of perfection. They were, to a man, highly skilled gawpers.
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quote 2015-11-18 13:33
“wizards, even failed wizards, have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine, the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space. It is said to be a sort of fluorescent greenish-yellow purple.”
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett,Nigel Planer

 

I love how he included rods and cones to make things legitimate and then added his own twist to it!

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quote 2015-11-18 12:50
“Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.”
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett,Nigel Planer

 

This about a camera. What does it say about selfie-takers then? Did we take back the power only to make duckfaces?

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