91, WG48, M43, E88 / NG43, F48, NA9, D3, B7, C1

Terry Pratchett, Making Money

Ja, es war absehbar, dass ich 'Making Money' auch wiederlesen würde. Ein paar andere Discworldbände folgen vielleicht noch - nicht unbedingt 'The Truth' aber wer weiß - aber dieser machte wieder richtig Spaß. Und erstaunlicherweise fand ich auch diesmal wieder einiges an Zitaten.
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What harm can it do to find out? It's a question that has left bruises down the centuries, even more than 'It can't hurt if I only take one' and 'It's all right if you only do it standing up'.
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Gods wanted belief, not rational thinking. Building the temple first was like giving a pair of wonderful shoes to a man with no legs. Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
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He'd bought it - why? Because it was like the lockpicks: a token to prove, if only to himself, that he hadn't given in, not all the way, that a part of him was still free. It was like the other readymade identities, the escape plans, the caches of money and clothes. They told him that any day he could leave all this, melt into the crowd, say goodbye to the paperwork and the timetable and the endless, endless wanting.
They told him that he could give it up any time he liked. Any hour, any minute, any second. And because he could, he didn't ... every hour, every minute, every second. There had to be a reason why.

(Terry Pratchett, Making Money (Discworld 36), 2009)

90, WG47, M42, E87 / NG43, F48, NA9, D3, B7, C1

Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

Diesen Band, vielleicht der letzte "echte" Discworld-Band, wollte ich schon länger wiedergelesen haben, schon weil es nicht nur um Fußball geht sondern dieser auch so herrlich erklärt wird, dass selbst totale Fußballmuffel ihren Spaß haben. Leider zum letzten Mal - der ganze Wortwitz und die typische treffene Charakterisierung sind in den Bänden danach einfach nicht mehr da.
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Truth is female, since truth is beauty rather than handsomeness; this, Ridcully reflected as the Council grumbled in, would certainly explain the saying that a lie could run around the world before Truth has got its, correction, her boots on, since she would have to choose which pair - the idea that any woman in a position to choose would have just one pair of boots being beyond rational belief. Indeed, as a goddess she would have lots of choices: comfy shoes for home truths, hobnail boots for unpleasant truths and possibly some kind of slipper for self-evident truth.
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"We'll eat early," said Ridcully, "and I am told that the pies at the game are just - amazing."
Truth, in front of her huge walk-in wardrobe, selected black leather boots with stiletto heels for such a barefaced truth.
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(Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals, 2009)