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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
-- Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites
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"I expect you're upset about leaving the Chalk, aren't you?" she said as the cart rattled on.
"No," said Tiffany.
"It's okay to be," said Miss Tick.
"Thank you, but I'm not, really," said Tiffany.
"If you want to have a bit of a cry, you don't have to pretend you've got some grit in your eye or anything--"
"I'm all right, actually," said Tiffany. "Honestly."
"You see, if you bottle that sort of thing up, it can cause terrible damage later on."
"I'm not bottling, Miss Tick."
In fact, Tiffany was a bit surprised at not crying, but she wasn't going to tell Miss Tick that. She'd left a sort of space in her head to burst into tears in, but it wasn't filling up. Perhaps it was because she'd wrapped up all those feelings and left them on the hill by the potbellied stove.
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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Ysabell - Mort (Discoworld by Terry Pratchett)
Last year, @mirtadraws and I, we started to read together, to each other, because I'm really bad for reading for my own, but reading for her is so nice and funny 💕
For a long time I wanted to read something by Terry Pratchett and fortunally Mirta is a huge fan than wanted to read again the books with me and we started with Mort!
I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!
I didn't spect how fucking funny it is and all the horrors at the same time that a moderm reference appears with a gigant note. That has caught me a lot, i didn't spect that I will love so much Terry's writtings!! I'm really glad that to now enjoy everything at the same time that I'm sad to not read all his books before 😩
I want to draw more of this funny and silly characters!
Please NO SPOILERS , I just read Mort , Maurice and now I'm with The Colour of Magic , thanks so much :'-)
Special thanks to @albaharu to lend me all the books!!!
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Havelock Vetinari is literature's most dangerous tyrant.
Astute, learned, and wickedly clever, there are no ends the man will not go to in achieving his goals. There is no one he will not manipulate, no one too important to remove by a variety of means, and no one so powerful as to threaten his position.
And this applies, most importantly of all, to himself. Who watches the Watch, after all?
But Vetinari is literature's most dangerous tyrant because he is at once, yes, a tyrant, but ALSO literature's most dedicated civil servant.
He cares for the city. And ONLY for the city. It is from this position of being the man who truly only cares for Ahnk Morpork that he derives his authority. After all, who cares as much as he does?
Vimes? Perhaps, but he's a married man and a father with private concerns that should take his attention as well (even if Vetinari has to constantly remind him of that fact). He has other things to worry about, but good job that man for sticking to his lane: a sledgehammer sized scalpel for repelling threats and keeping the peace.
Carrot? Certainly, but Carrot cares more for the PEOPLE than the CITY. His mind is on the present, keeping the ones who are alive upright and breathing and getting justice for those tragically cut short. He is not concerned with the welfare of the CITY, as such. Not with the future the next generation shall inherit.
The guilds? Self-interested fools who were happy to take what Havelock gave them: stability and a piece of the pie no sane person would eat. They are content to squabble over portions of nebulous power, and all of them recognize that if Vetinari were gone... well, it doesn't much bear thinking about, really.
The nobles? Self-interested fools who are UNhappy with what Vetinari has given them: a slow walk to total obscurity and an eternal life in the back catalogues of Twerp's Peerage. Besides, they tend to only be effective when they can convince others to foolishly do their bidding, and the market for such men has seen a suspicious dearth in supply as late.
The wizards? Certainly not. Tried that before, thank you, and everyone seems much happier when gravity remains consistent and no one randomly becomes newts. Let them remain in their university, fat, happy, and most definitely NOT doing any bloody magic.
Lipwig? Maybe. In time. If he is convinced that it is in his own self-interest and things remain... interesting. But he also has Spike and the Bank and the Post Office, and a man can only juggle so much before suddenly there's a chainsaw in the front row and an awful lot of screaming. Best to keep him in practice of course, but... no. Not yet.
Vetinari uses all of them. They are tools in his box as he tunes and fixes and cares for the Disc's greatest city. The Turtle moves, but so does the Patrician, and it is a close contest on who shifts greater mountains. It is easy to imagine more than a few of the gods on Cori Celeste are keeping an eye on him and wondering what he's up to.
Except for the smart ones. They are doubtlessly taking notes.
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Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum - UK paperback, hardcover, and the illustration by Josh Kirby.
Hardcover spine from Source link below
Info from ISFDB & Wikipedia
Source: ebay.com
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The problem is that we think the opposite of funny is serious. It is not. In fact, as G. K. Chesterton pointed out, the opposite of funny is not funny, and the opposite of serious is not serious. Benny Hill was funny and not serious; Rory Bremner is funny and serious; most politicians are serious but, unfortunately, not funny. Humour has its uses. Laughter can get through the keyhole while seriousness is still hammering on the door. New ideas can ride in on the back of a joke, old ideas can be given an added edge.
-- Terry Pratchett - A Slip Of The Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction
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It is well known that eight colours make up white. But there are also eight colours of blackness, for those that have the seeing of them, and the hives of Death are among the black grass in the black orchard under the black-blossomed, ancient boughs of trees that will, eventually, produce apples that … put it like this … probably won't be red.
-- Terry Pratchett - Eric
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This is a story about magic and where it goes and perhaps more importantly where it comes from and why, although it doesn't pretend to answer all or any of these questions.
It may, however, help to explain why Gandalf never got married and why Merlin was a man. Because this is also a story about sex, although probably not in the athletic, tumbling, count-the-legs-and-divide-by-two sense unless the characters get totally beyond the author's control. They might.
- Equal Rites — Terry Pratchett
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I'm reading The Truth, and the way Terry portrays Vimes in this book almost feels like a test for those who have read previous City Watch books. A reader who has read the previous books knows and trusts Vimes. We love him, we know he's a good man, we want him to succeed.
But in this book, he's almost an antagonist to William, at least initially. He's resistant and hostile to William's journalistic efforts, it seems like William is making his job harder, and my instinct was to be irritated with William about this. But as I've progressed through the book, I've realized that I fell into the Protagonist Trap with Vimes.
I, the reader, love Vimes. I trust Vimes. I want Vimes to succeed. But Vimes doesn't get to do whatever he wants just because I love him. William isn't doing anything illegal and he isn't doing anything wrong. And Vimes, irritated as he is, recognizes this.
It almost feels like Terry is leaning over the reader's shoulder to see if you were paying attention to the message of the other City Watch books, not just enjoying the adventure stories.
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The twin city of proud Ankh and pestilent Morpork, of which all the other cities of time and space are, as it were, mere reflections, has stood many assaults in its long and crowded history and has always risen to flourish again. So the fire and its subsequent flood, which destroyed everything left that was not flammable and added a particularly noisome flux to the survivors' problems, did not mark its end. Rather it was a fiery punctuation mark, a coal-like comma, or salamander semi-colon, in a continuing story.
-- Terry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic
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For everyone struggling and not knowing who you are some days.
"Why do you want to be a witch instead of a wizard, which is something traditionally thought of AS a man's job?"
"I've never thought of myself AS a man, Mistress Tiffany. I don't think I'm anything. I'm just me"
(From The Shepherd's Crown)
Thank you Terry! Don't try to be anyone, just be yourself.