Jul 17, 2025
Timely Fandom Quote #118
“His name is in the code, in the wind in the rigging and the shutters. Haven’t you ever heard the saying: ‘Man’s not dead while his name is still spoken’?”
– Grandad, Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
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Timely Fandom Quote #118
“His name is in the code, in the wind in the rigging and the shutters. Haven’t you ever heard the saying: ‘Man’s not dead while his name is still spoken’?”
– Grandad, Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Presystem times were so funny bc. Yeah man. Must have been the wind. Also featuring Star (It/Its, Rot/Rots, He/Him)
Transcript under the spoiler if you can't read our handwriting!
"Your grags are losing their followers, not just because of the clacks towers and not because of Ankh-Morpork but because new generations arise and think what's all this about--how could our parents be so stupid? And you can't stop people any more than you can stop a train."
Albrechtson was almost sorry for Ardent now. You could live in denial for a long time, but, like a snake, it doubles back and strikes.
Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam
Keeping the Clacks going on dave.io. (Details: XClacksOverhead.org)
I JUST REALISED WHY THE CLACKS IS CALLED THE CLACKS: BECAUSE THE SHUTTERS ON THE TOWERS MAKE A CLACKING NOISE AS THEY OPEN AND CLOSE
”Look out of the window. Tell me what you see.”
“Fog,” said the Chief Priest.
Vetinari sighed. Sometimes the weather had no sense of narrative convenience.
“If it was a fine day,” he said sharply, “you would see the big semaphore tower on the other side of the river. Words flying out and back from every corner of the continent. Not long ago it would take me the better part of a month to exchange letters with our ambassador in Genua. Now I can have a reply tomorrow. Certain things become easier, but this makes them harder in other ways. We have to change the way we think. We have to move with the times.”
-The Truth by Terry Pratchett
GNU TERRY PRATCHETT (In Semaphore flag signals)