Our Terry Pratchett quote of this particular day, because if we only find out enough things about the universe it could all, somehow, make sense
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Morella reviews 'The Last Continent' by Terry Pratchett, book 22 in the Discworld series. www.douxreviews.com/2025/10/the-... #thelastcontinent #discworld #terrypratchett #bookreview
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He hated weapons, and not just because they’d so often been aimed at him. You got into more trouble if you had a weapon. People shot you instantly if they thought you were going to shoot them. But if you were unarmed, they often stopped to talk. Admittedly, they tended to say things like, “You’ll never guess what we’re going to do to you, pal,” but that took time. And Rincewind could do a lot with a few seconds. He could use them to live longer in.
-from The Last Continent
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Rincewind awoke with a scream, to get it over with.
-from The Last Continent
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“You takin’ the piss?”
“No, I’d like to leave it here—”
-The Last Continent
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I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE’S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED “LIVING.” WOULD YOU LIKE A PRAWN?
- The Last Continent
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Elsewhere, someone might have said, "It's just books! Books aren't dangerous!" But even ORDINARY books are dangerous, and not only the ones like Make Gelignite the Professional Way. A man sits in some museum somewhere and writes a harmless book about political economy and suddenly thousands of people who haven't even read it are dying because the ones who did haven't got the joke. Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber."
-The Last Continent
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I think I've found my alter ego in the Discworld: Ponder Stibbons 😅 (Cogite Stibon in French)
Otherwise, Australia, er.... XXXX, it's really a very weird place 😁
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Les Annales du Disque-Monde : Le Dernier Continent (1998, Terry Pratchett)
It's the last day of sunshine! ☀️
So I'm taking the opportunity to start reading The Last Continent 🦘
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“A man sits in some museum somewhere and writes a harmless book about political economy and suddenly thousands of people who haven’t even read it are dying because the ones who did haven’t got the joke.”
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“How could you ever make any progress against minds like that? If some god somewhere had said, “Let there be light,” they’d be the ones to say things like “Why? The darkness has always been good enough for us.”
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I assume that politicians are already corrupt: or easily corruptible, once in office.
I like a thought in #TerryPratchett’s #TheLastContinent: the folk in it’s fictional setting gaoled politicians the minute they were elected.
“They’re gonna do *something*, right?”
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“The hypothesis behind invisible writings was laughably complicated. All books are tenuously connected through L-space and, therefore, the content of any book ever written or yet to be written may, in the right circumstances, be deduced from a sufficiently close study of books already in existence. Future books exist in potentia, as it were, in the same way that a sufficiently detailed study of a handful of primal ooze will eventually hint at the future existence of prawn crackers.” -from The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
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“Haven’t you noticed that by running away you end up in more trouble?” “Yes, but, you see, you can run away from that, too,” said Rincewind. “That’s the beauty of the system. Dead is only for once, but running away is for ever.”
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“Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.”
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“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?”
“Why?”
“It saves time.”
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I've been enjoying creating #Discworld #AIArt by giving a #PratchettQuote to my latest bot: poe.com/Pratchett-Ve... Here's the latest- “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.” #TheLastContinent Next step: adding #Midjourney prompts
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“...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.”
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“I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.”
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“But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library?"
"Students," said Senior Wrangler morosely.”
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