A quotation from **Terry Pratchett**
> The trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine …
**Terry Pratchett** (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 2, _The Light Fantastic_ (1986)
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Bring on #fall Ready for cooler nights, chilly mornings and some roadtrips
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The Disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailors who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.
- from The Light Fantastic
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A large, but not particularly impressive, book. Other books in the University’s libraries had covers inlaid with rare jewels and fascinating wood, or bound with dragon skin. This one was just a rather tatty leather. It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as “slightly foxed,” although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had been badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.
- The Light Fantastic
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Ankh-Morpork! / Pearl of cities! / This is not a completely accurate description, of course - it was not round and shiny - but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.
-from The Light Fantastic
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The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett -- book review by Morella. www.douxreviews.com/2025/05/the-... #thelightfantastic #terrypratchett #bookreview #discworld
« The Light Fantastic », 1986
by Josh Kirby (British artist, 1928-2001)
Cover illustration for Terry Pratchett's "The Light Fantastic", Colin Smythe, 1986
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I liked the way these were catching the light.
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"Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back." --from The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
“Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.”
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A digital art based on the Discworld novel The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett depicting Great A'tuin moving towards a red sun.
What then are the greatest things that a man may find in life?
Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper.
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“The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.”
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5 star review for The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett. Review text copied in body of post
This was amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed. I didn’t expect to get a fabulous satirical roast of sexists in the middle of a book from 1986 but I did and it was amazing.
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Graphic that says Currently Reading with the cover of The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
Diving into #TheLightFantastic by #TerryPratchett to continue the #Rincewind series of the #Discworld saga
Well, Rincewind just fell over the edge, so it's off to #Thelightfantastic
“He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine...”
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"Can you use a sword?" he said weakly.
"I don't know. I've never tried."
"You're mad!"
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Read #TheLightFantastic in junior high, but #WyrdSisters was the book that really hooked me on #Pratchett. Pictured is my very battered "true first" (ROC edition) from 10th grade.
“He'sh mad?"
"Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money."
"Ah, then he can’t be mad. I've been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he'sh just ecshentric.”
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“Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway.”
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“down below the mines and sea ooze and fake fossil bones put there by a Creator with nothing better to do than upset archeologists and give them silly ideas.”
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Since it’s publication day anniversary for #TheLightFantastic, a reminder of this early appearance of the name Weatherwax…
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“Right,” said a voice. “What’s going on? And why wasn’t I summoned?”
Galder Weatherwax, Supreme Grand Conjuror of the Order of the Silver Star,
