Auch in Carpe Jugulum gab es wieder einiges, das schwierig und mindestens eins, das meiner Ansicht nach unmöglich zu übersetzen ist. Ich lasse mich allerdings gerne belehren.

'Oh, I don't know, I really don't,' said Nanny. 'I mean, it's flattering and everything, but I really don't think I could be goin' out with a man with a limp.'
'Limp what?'
Nanny Ogg had always considered herself unshockable, but there's no such thing. Shocks can come from unexpected directions.

(Terry Pratchett, aus: Carpe Jugulum, 1998)

138, WG71, M68, E127 / NG67, F70, D11, NA12, C2, B10

Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

Der letzte richtige Witches-Band in der Discworldserie vor den Tiffany-Aching-Bänden wird wohl auch immer mein Lieblingsband bleiben, auf jeden Fall der meistgelesenste. Mir erscheint er der düsterste zu sein, in dem Granny Weatherwax an ihre Grenzen kommmt, was einiges heißen will.

She distrusted a moon like that. A full moon could only wane, a new moon could only wax, but a half moon, balancing so precariously between light and dark ... well, it could do anything.
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What had she ever earned? The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches they gave you a bigger shovel.
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(Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum, 1998)

Natürlich wimmelte es in 'Pyramids' wieder von Wortspielen, von denen mindestens zwei ziemlich unübersetzbar sein sollten:

There was always someone back home who wanted to be certain that deposed monarchs stayed that way. It was usually a case of heir today, gone tomorrow.
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(Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.)

(Aus: Terry Pratchett, Pyramids, 1988)

136, WG69, M67, E125 / NG67, F69, D11, NA12, C2, B10

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

Erst nach dem lesen fiel mir ein, mal zu checken, wann und wie oft ich diesen Discworldband schon gelesen haben, nur um festzustellen, dass er offenbar einem 10-Jahresrythmus unterliegt. Ende 2000, kurz nach Weihnachten 2010 und jetzt Weihnachten 2020. Und das völlig unabsichtlich. Vielleicht hat sich diese geniale Analyse von den physikalischen Besonderheiten von Pyramiden im Raumzeitgefüge auch auf die Fähigkeiten des Buches ausgewirkt sich in meinem Bewußtsein bemerkbar zu machen.
Abgesehen davon war es wieder ein pure Wonne zu lesen und ich würde ihn jederzeit unter den Top Five meiner persönlichen Lieblings-Discworldbände einordnen.
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When you die, the first thing you lose is your life. The next thing is your illusions.
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And Dil was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed anymore.
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No one is more worried by the actual physical manifestation of a god than his priests; it's like having the auditors in unexpectedly.
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I mean, we think we believe that the gods are wise and just and powerful, but what we really believe is that they are like our father after a long day. And we think we believe the Netherworld is a sort of paradise, but we really believe it's right here and you go to it in your body and I'm in it and I'm never going to get away. Never, ever.
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Teppic knew that Dios had hard words to say about the Ephebians for having gods that looked just like people. If the gods looked just like everyone else, he used to say, how would people know how to treat them?
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(Terry Pratchett, Pyramids, 1988)

103, WG56, M49, E99 / NG47, F54, NA9, D4, B8, C1

Terry Pratchett, The Truth

Bei diesem Wiederlesen - keine Ahnung das wievielste es war, auf jeden Fall das erste Mal auf dem Paperwhite - vermied ich es Stellen zu überspringen und las wirklich jede Seite. Und fand tatsächlich noch etwas zitierenswertes.
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"And are these your reasons, my lord?"
"Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent."
Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.
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"The city is getting rather crowded, though," said Mr Windling, who had some unspecified clerical job. "Still, at least zombies are human. No offence meant, of course."
Mr Longshaft smiled faintly as he buttered the toast, and William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offence meant'. Maybe it was because they found it easier to say 'no offence meant' than actually refrain from giving offence.
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The curious thing was, if the breakfast table jury was anything to go by, that denying stories like this only proved that they were true. After all, no one would bother to deny something if it didn't exist, would they?

(Terry Pratchett, The Truth, 2000)

Against the stars a turtle passes, carrying four elephants on its shell.
Both turtle and elephants are bigger than people might expect, but out between the stars the difference between huge and tiny is, comparatively speaking, very small.

(Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent, 1998)

99, WG54, M48, E96 / NG45, F51, NA9, D3, B7, C1

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

Diese Discworldversion von Australien wollte schon länger wiedergelesen werden, aber irgendwie konnte ich mich bis jetzt nie so recht aufraffen. Ich kann mich noch erinnern, dass es für mich beim ersten Lesen eine echt Erleichterung war, dass Rincewind mitsamt Luggage endlich nach Hause kommt und nicht mehr unfreiwillig in der Discworldgeschichte herumirren muss. Und wie unglaublich und gewaltig es ist als es endlich regnet. Der Schluß mit dem bunten Boomerang als Regenbogen am Himmel ist einfach zu gut.
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People don't live on the Disc any more than, in less hand-crafted parts of the multiverse, they live on balls. Oh, planets may be the place where their body eats its tea, but they live elsewhere, in worlds of their own which orbit very handily around the centre of their heads.

(Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent, 1998)