66, WG42, E58, / NG24, D8, C1, Frz0, B2, NA0

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

Immer wenn ich denke, dass es für diesmal reicht mit der Discworld, will noch ein Band wiedergelesen werden, wie jetzt der Band über die Discworldversion von Australien. Vielleicht sollte ich mal die gesamte Serie von Anfang bis Ende - okay, bis ca. Unseen Academicals - lesen...

How could you ever make any progress against minds like that? If some god somewhere had said, 'Let there be light,' they'd be the ones to say things like 'Why?' The darkness has always been good enough for us.'
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I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED 'LIVING'.
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Historians have pointed out that it is in times of plenty that people feel like going to war. In times of famine they're simply trying to find enough to eat. When they've just enough to go round they tend to be polite. But when a banquet is spread before them, it's time to argue over the place settings.
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(Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent, 1998)
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Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
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Abgesehen von der Geburt der 8 Mini-Discworlds bei dem roten Stern enthält dieser Band auch die Verwandlung des Bibliothekars der Unseen University in einen Orang-Utan, der neben Death zu einem der bekanntesten (und genialsten) Charaktere der Discworld wird. Den Band hab ich wirklich schon zu lange vernachlässigt.
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Boring, it thought. What a strange thing to say. Trees can be bored, of course, beetles do it all the time, but I don't think that was what he was trying to mean.
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From here it also looks a great deal bigger, because space is not really big, it is simply somewhere to be big in. Planets are big, but planets are meant to be big and there is nothing clever about being the right size.
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(Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic, 1986)