... and a dobby stone, which was supposed to be lucky, because it had a hole in it. (She'd been told that when she was seven, and had picked it up. She couldn't quite see how the hole made it lucky, but since it had spent a lot of time in her pocket, and then safe and sound in a box, it was probably more fortunate than most other stones, which got kicked around and run over by carts and so on.)

(Terry Pratchett, "A Hat full of Sky", 2004)

"For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting such store by all these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy."

(Terry Pratchett, "Equal Rites")

Ächz, und ich hab mir erst letztens "Bleak House" von Charles Dickens zugelegt, auch weil es in Peter Straubs & Stephen Kings "Black House" so hochgelobt wird. Und der gute "Dahl's Chickens" wie Roald Dahl (aargh, noch ein Toter!) ihn nannte, hat doch schon vor längerer Zeit das Zeitliche gesegnet ... Aber da es Regina so gut gelungen ist, mich mit ihrem Brust-Virus anzustecken, komme ich wohl vorerst sowieso nicht dazu. Und Steven Brust ist definitiv am Leben und das auch hoffentlich noch sehr lange ...

"They can tak' oour lives but they cannae tak' oour troousers!"
"Bang went saxpence!"
"Ye'll tak' the high road an I'll tak' yer wallet!"
"There can only be one t'ousand!"
"Ach, stick it up yer trakkans!"

25. Mai ????

Samuel Vimes

der Sohn von Sam Vimes und Lady Sybil Ramkin wird geboren.

(Terry Pratchett, "Nightwatch", 2002)