AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/576036599047258112
just in the off case you didn't notice it (cause I didn't): read the follow up tweets, i.e. the whole profile.
Sir Terry Pratchett has died
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#132Damn! Won't some millionaire here get him the cryogenics treatment. The world should not lose a man like Terry Pratchett.
Apparently that's pissing people off.
Too bad for those who feel offended. I'll stand by my statement.
Pratchett has had a profoundly positive impact on the world including my life in particular. I wanted to see him cured and flourishing to a ripe, very old age. If I could have brought about even a moonshot possibility of having that happen eventually I would. But I failed. I was too late. Some others needn't have been.
Shit. I don't know that I've ever been this sad at the death of a public person...
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#133"Yes. I know. He's Vorbis," said Brutha. "Vorbis changed people. Sometimes he changed them into dead people. But he always changed them. That was his triumph." -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods) I love this book, Small Gods, one of my favorite books by any author. I think the same could be said of Terry Pratchett, he changed people through his books (and as a bonus generally left them alive). Godspeed Terry.
Wasn't the audio codec "Ogg Vorbis" named after Pratchett's work?
Edit: yes it is, at least the Vorbis part. Ogg, despite similarities with Nanny Ogg, isn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis#Name
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#134Read http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett... if you want to understand him. Read http://www.lspace.org/books/pqf/ if you want a quick reminder of what we have lost. Goodbye Terry, you will be remembered fondly.
I don't think we have lost anything. I think we gained something incredible over a short time. Nobody lives forever. What Terry Pratchett has given to us will live longer than any person. I'm not sad that he has died. Everyone who is born dies, and there's an infinite number of potential people who are never born. What is important is that we live, and while we live some of us do extraordinary things. I'm reading Gua…
While beautiful, I need to know - how do you get a 2 year old to sit still to listen to "Guards! Guards!"? (or any book without ridiculous pictures, for that matter)
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#135I hope he remembered to shoot the missionaries.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wasn't the "Wizards' Staff" more of Ankh-Morpork song? Nanny was known more for her Hedgehog song. Although I wouldn't put it past her to hear Wizards' Staff at some point of her long life, and of course she would like it too. :)
I am pretty sure the song is first mentioned in 'Wyrd Sisters' when Nanny Ogg is shouting at the night sky.
I am not sure it's first mentioned there, but Nanny definitely sings it in wyrd sisters[0].
[0] https://books.google.it/books?id=t4Djt1RPNiYC&printsec=front...
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#137“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING," said Death. "JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
Why the quotes?
I see you're downvoted, but you're right. The lack of quotes around Death's words was characteristic. Death didn't "speak", his words just existed, imperial, in the narrative :)
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#138I was introduced to Terry Prachett by watching Terry Pratchett's Hogfather as done by Sky One. Really late to get into his stories, but since then I had started with book 1 of Discworld. Are there authors who write similarly?
> Are there authors who write similarly? Nope. But the closest you're going to get is probably Douglas Adams.
given the single masterpiece which is "Evolution man"[0], Roy Lewis is the third author I usually associate with DA and TP.
[0] http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Man-How-Ate-Father/dp/067975...
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting, etymologically. "Good bye" is a contraction of "God be with ye (you)", which isn't quite so abrupt. "Au revoir", literally, "until (we) see again". Similar to "Hasta manyana" (until later), or "bis später" (same), Spanish and German, or "zài jiàn" ("see (you) again", Mandarin Chinese) . Farewells (literally, "fare thee well", be well) in many languages share similar attributes.
Never mind "bis später", what about "auf wiedersehen"... and "à bientôt" - see you soon. Strangely, I don't really say "goodbye" all that often - it's either "later" or "'til next time.".
The Dutch 'tot ziens' is similar, and 'see you [soon]' is another common English expression.
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#140"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." — Terry Pratchett RIP
'Oh, that's the Adjustable Device for Winning Ontological Arguments,' said Shawn.
'The King asked for it.'
'Works, does it?'
'Er . . . if you twiddle it properly.'