#prachett

[legally-i-am-death]

I remember talking about Monstrous Regiment and somebody telling me they didn't like it because the feminist angle and like.

Sure, that's part of it, yes.

It's also just about people though.

It's about pride and war and the people that get caught up in it without any say whatsoever, it's about propaganda, it's about comraderie, it's about socks and what they cause. It's about gender fuckery and it's about prayer and how the smallest person can change everything, how there's a difference between national pride and nationalist pride. It's about girls that went to war, it's about boys that went to war, it's about people. It's about arson and love and it's about making a mark on history. It's about when metal meets the meat and it's about holding the metal and it's about a locket with a picture of a girl and a locket of golden hair. It's about looking for family and looking for some respect. It's about being there and sometimes it's about flying machines and spilling beans. It's about taking the shilling and kissing the dutchess, it's about loyalty and where it ends, where it starts, where it leads and where being loyal means you have to stop.

It's about life around a battlefield.

It's about the dead bodies in a hut.

It's about trying so, so hard and not even knowing how to swear about it.

It's about somebody taking time to find coloured pencils.

[spicymotte]

how can someone this pretty be this annoying

[legally-i-am-death]

FUCK IT, I'LL JUST BASE MY LEXICOLOGY FINAL ON SIR TERRY PRACHETT, AT LEAST HE WILL NEVER FAIL ME WHEN IT COMES TO VOCABULARY

[spicymotte]

Prachett

[dreverythingisaliens]

So, with Aziraphale talking about eating clams...

I got the word of god beaten into me as a child and was forced to read the bible cover to cover at least twice a year, so I'm familiar with a number of weird biblicals laws. You aren't supposed to eat anything from the sea that "has neither scales nor gills".

I know he blatantly /LIED/ to god's face and that's a big no-no, but did anyone else catch that and find it funny?

[dayerncytaty]

“And he said something else,” she said. “What was it, now? Oh, yes: 'It's a million to one chance,',” said Lady Ramkin,' 'I think he said, 'but it might just work'.'' She smiled at him. And then it arose and struck Vimes that, in her own special category, she was quite beautiful; this was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at. She couldn't do worse, but then, he couldn't do better. So maybe it balanced out. She wasn't getting any younger but then, who was? And she had style and money and common-sense and self-assurance and all the things that he didn't, and she had opened her heart, and if you let her she could engulf you; the woman was a city. And eventually, under siege, you did what Ankh-Morpork had always done-unbar the gates, let the conquerors in, and make them your own. How did you start? She seemed to be expecting something. He shrugged, and picked up his wine glass and sought for a phrase. One crept into his wildly resonating mind. “Here's looking at you, kid,” he said.

“Guard! Guard!” Terry Prachett

[dayerncytaty]

Rośnie się, czytając o piratach i kowbojach, i kosmonautach, i takich, i właśnie gdy jesteś przekonany, że świat pełen jest zdumiewających rzeczy, to ci mówią, że tak naprawdę, to jest on z martwych wielorybów i zrąbanych lasów i nuklearnych odpadów, co będą krążyć przez miliony lat. Do tego nie warto dorastać, jeśli chcecie wiedzieć, co o tym myślę.

"Dobry Omen" Neil Gaiman, Terry Prachett

[dayerncytaty]

Widzi pan, kapitanie, dobrzy ludzie są dobrzy tylko w obalaniu złych ludzi. W tym jesteście naprawdę dobrzy, przyznaję. Kłopot polega na tym, że to jedyna rzecz, w jakiej jesteście dobrzy. Jednego dnia biją dzwony i pada zły tyran, a następnego wszyscy narzekają, że od upadku tyrana nikt nie wywozi śmieci. Ponieważ źli ludzie umieją planować. To element charakterystyki, można powiedzieć. Każdy zły tyran ma plan, jak rządzić światem. Dobrzy ludzie jakoś sobie z tym nie radzą.

“Straż! Straż!”, Terry Pratchett