Terry Pratchett diagnosed with Alzheimers
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Frelga is just so darn handy to have around.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Just read WYRD SISTERS -- now, that's very early, isn't it? Has a zanier, lighter feel to it (having just read WINTERSMITH, the more recent versions of Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are very vivid in my mind). And perhaps a bit too many Shakespeare jokes. I enjoyed it, but not as much as, say, the Tiffany Aching books or HOGFATHER.
Here's something sure to amuse: A Guards! Guards! trailer made as a first year animation project. It's pretty --ing impressive, even if the voices aren't the greatest by the author's own admission.
Spoiler level typical of trailers.
Watch on YouTube
Oh. For the non-Pratchett reading mods: --ing is a reference to a character in Truh, who goes around saying --ing all the time. It's not short for anything, it's just a velar nasal sound.
Spoiler level typical of trailers.
Watch on YouTube
Oh. For the non-Pratchett reading mods: --ing is a reference to a character in Truh, who goes around saying --ing all the time. It's not short for anything, it's just a velar nasal sound.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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Darnie-poohs! She's too fast for us, Voronwë.Frelga wrote:Oh. For the non-Pratchett reading mods: --ing is a reference to a character in Truh, who goes around saying --ing all the time. It's not short for anything, it's just a velar nasal sound.
I'll put away the thumbscrews. Again. <heavy sigh>
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
How did you figure that out? I thought it was a short form, and that Pratchett was poking his stick at the "beep" censor sounds on TV, Radio etc.Frelga wrote:Oh. For the non-Pratchett reading mods: --ing is a reference to a character in Truh, who goes around saying --ing all the time. It's not short for anything, it's just a velar nasal sound.
Psst... Prim, I don't think her case is watertight. Get out the thumbscrews
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Put 'em away, get 'em out, put 'em away, get 'em out. . . .
There's all these little tiny pieces, and when I go for the Phillips head jeweler's screwdriver set that should be in the credenza, someone <looks around menacingly> has always taken the entire box. . . .
There's all these little tiny pieces, and when I go for the Phillips head jeweler's screwdriver set that should be in the credenza, someone <looks around menacingly> has always taken the entire box. . . .
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Sacharissa says something to the tune of "He was saying "Ing" all the time, and I am sure he meant something naughty," and toward the end of the book she goes all "Ing! Ing! Ing!"Mahima wrote:How did you figure that out? I thought it was a short form, and that Pratchett was poking his stick at the "beep" censor sounds on TV, Radio etc.Frelga wrote:Oh. For the non-Pratchett reading mods: --ing is a reference to a character in Truh, who goes around saying --ing all the time. It's not short for anything, it's just a velar nasal sound.
Also Terry was talking about a theatrical production of The Truth and how Mr. Tulip was talking in what sounded like a version of Zulu clicking language.
What Phillips head jeweler's screwdriver set? I didn't see no Phillips head jeweler's screwdriver set.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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<goes off to find something to punt>
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
An interview with Pterry in New Scientist
On Unseen Academicals:
On Unseen Academicals:
On environment:Pratchett's latest book, Unseen Academicals - an addition to the Discworld series - was prompted by his fans who suggested he write a book about football. "Football is there to carry the plot," says Pratchett, but the book itself is about his crab bucket theory. The idea, he explains, is that football evolved during the industrial revolution, when people converged on cities from the countryside. "The old certainties back home had gone, they had nothing in common apart from their poverty but they formed a clan by supporting the same football team." And crab bucket? Because crabs don't often escape from traps: "Self-made ghettoes are hard to get out of."
On death:"I think we're doomed," he pronounces, "because politicians think in five years at a time. Every time I remember that we live on a planet, it scares the shit out of me, because they're such dangerous things to live on: two miles down there you burn, two miles up there you freeze. It's so delicate." Pratchett says he's always recycled and still grows his own veg, evidenced by the marrows as big as space ships and the Halloween-esque squash that litter the garden.
He prefers the term "assisted death" to "assisted suicide" because of the negative implications of suicide. "The current situation suits no one. It's like a nun giving you a sex lesson," he says. "They don't want you to do it."
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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Well, this was a sunset outside my window... but it fit Pratchett's quote so well.Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue hues that any professional artist would dismiss as the work of some enthusiastic amateur who'd never looked at a real sunset. This was one of those sunrises. It was the kind of sunrise a man looks at and says, 'No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.'
- Terry Pratchett in Thief of Time.
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