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Author Topic: Books: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett  (Read 4761 times)

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R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« on: March 12, 2015, 12:53:37 pm »
Fuck.  Can we start today over again please?
« Last Edit: May 07, 2019, 11:25:35 am by RandallS »
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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2015, 01:05:54 pm »
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Fuck.  Can we start today over again please?


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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2015, 01:38:53 pm »
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Fuck.  Can we start today over again please?

 
Devastated. Even knowing it was coming sooner rather than later. Devastated.
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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2015, 01:51:54 pm »
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Fuck.  Can we start today over again please?

 
Oh. Oh no.
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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2015, 02:00:06 pm »
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Fuck.  Can we start today over again please?

 
The literary world has lost someone special.  Hopefully, his writing will live on for many years to come.


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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2015, 02:17:18 pm »
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Fuck.  Can we start today over again please?

 
He DIED?!?

Fuck. This day. This fucking day. Does it get worse? Shootings, drunken secret service goons, and now this. Fer fucks sake.

The greatest of the worlds authors has passed. We will not see another like him, and this world is poorer for it.
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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2015, 02:50:59 pm »
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The world is a little darker today for the loss of such a fantastically inventive imagination.  RIP, Sir Terry.

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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2015, 06:07:59 pm »
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Last week Leonard Nimoy, and now this. :cry:

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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2015, 06:57:42 pm »
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Fuck.  Can we start today over again please?

:( Damn. Damn it all.

I hope he's happy, wherever he is.
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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2015, 06:57:59 pm »
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Fuck.  Can we start today over again please?

This isn't turning out to be a good month for SF/F fans. I'm probably one of the few people on The Cauldron who isn't a Discworld fan. however, I thought Good Omens was great.
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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2015, 08:40:49 pm »
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(Jabberwocky, your sig is very Kemetic right now.)

This article is amazing and I think all of PTerry's fans should read it; Neil Gaiman on PTerry's illness, written last year:  http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman
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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2015, 04:54:49 am »
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Fuck.  Can we start today over again please?

He shaped my theology more than any great, lauded theologian could have done.

And it wasn't the Witches books that did it. It was the Death books.

'All right,' said Susan. 'I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.'
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
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YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
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YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
‘They’re not the same at all!’
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET— Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME… SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
‘Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—’
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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2015, 09:31:56 am »
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'All right,' said Susan. 'I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.'
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
‘Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—’
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
‘So we can believe the big ones?’
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
‘They’re not the same at all!’
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET— Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME… SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
‘Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—’
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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2015, 03:19:04 pm »
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He shaped my theology more than any great, lauded theologian could have done.

And it wasn't the Witches books that did it. It was the Death books.

 
*nods*

I think I like The Hogfather so much because it helped shape my beliefs.


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Re: R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2015, 07:03:28 pm »
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Yes. To which I can only say, 'Terry Pratchett.'

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