05-10-2009, 07:24 PM | #1 |
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A Nice Terry Pratchett Interview
Someone may have posted this before but since I didn't see it, and my apologies if so, thought I'd share it. This is Pratchett interviewed by Gaiman.
http://www.wbqonline.com/feature.do?featureid=1 |
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thanks for that. i particularly enjoyed this bit :
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05-10-2009, 10:07 PM | #3 |
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I really like Terry Pratchett's books; it's nice to know that the author has the same sort of sense of humor in person. Oh, sorry, he's British, right? That should be "humour."
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05-11-2009, 08:25 AM | #4 |
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Thank you so much for this posting - it's good to see Pratchett is still Pratchett - dealing with disease and fame equally well.
Before I discovered Pratchett (in an A.S. Byatt review/slam of Harry Potter books no less), I used to read all the HGTG books once a year - to explain why life was as it is - and to learn to laught at it again. I've since added Pratchett - I find a combination of Rincewind's and Death's philosophy to be indespensible to dealing with life today. |
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hm, strange, fw only has 2 (the deeper meaning of liff, the salmon of doubt). but booksonboard seems to have all of them (and it looks like they've got them in epub !! yay !).
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One of the greatest lines in fiction (IMHO) still is: "the late Arthur Dent -- late for what exactly?"
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My favorite quote from Hitchhiker is: Quote:
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That doesn't sound quite right. I remember it as:
"You must come with me, or you'll be late" "Late for what?" "What's your name, Earthman?" "Dent. Arthur Dent." "Well, late as in the late Dent Arthur Dent. It's a sort of threat, you see." |
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That sounds more right to me too - thanks for the correction!
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"Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life."
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"Man had always considered himself more intelligent than the dolphins because of all the things He had achieved - the wheel, New York, wars and things, while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. Whereas the dolphins had always considered themselves more intelligent than Man for precisely the same reasons."
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