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'''A''' likely Roundworld character who never made it to Discworld (you can't catch them all): {{wp|John_Wilkes|John Wilkes}}. Mr Pratchett pointed out that truth was stranger than fiction. He didn't catch all the examples and more are created all the time. | '''A''' likely Roundworld character who never made it to Discworld (you can't catch them all): {{wp|John_Wilkes|John Wilkes}}. Mr Pratchett pointed out that truth was stranger than fiction. He didn't catch all the examples and more are created all the time. | ||
:and then...I admired David Bowie as an entertainer but never thought of him as a musician. The loss of Glenn Frey annoys me. Is {{wp|Desparado (song)|''Desparado''}} not the best song never released as a single? | |||
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Revision as of 05:02, 19 January 2016
Verse
What if the stories were true? What if there really were Vampires and Werewolves and Wizards and Witches who really could turn you into a toad, or make you think they had? Suppose Nick and Nora Charles were the most powerful couple in the country...
There is a story that the world is a disc borne on the backs of four elephants which stand on the carapace of an enormous turtle. In one corner of the Multiverse (the one farthest from Reality) this, too, is true. This is where the story creates the history and a one-in-a-million chance turns up nine times out of ten and the ocean falls into space around the rim without depleting itself. On the Discworld, "what if?" must be answered, the stories lived, the myth made real.
Tales from this remote universe arrived regularly via inspiration particles intercepting the particularly receptive and talented brain of Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to sort, file and illuminate the elements of these chronicles in this little corner of the vast library of L-space. Just don't forget your ball of string.
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A likely Roundworld character who never made it to Discworld (you can't catch them all): John Wilkes. Mr Pratchett pointed out that truth was stranger than fiction. He didn't catch all the examples and more are created all the time.
- and then...I admired David Bowie as an entertainer but never thought of him as a musician. The loss of Glenn Frey annoys me. Is Desparado not the best song never released as a single?
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I sometimes sit and laugh giddily at the mere existence of some Pratchett characters (Carrot Ironfoundersson, say) and the reality he created out of the absurd stereotype. This is often toward the end of the bottle of wine, but still, it suggests how he's different from other writers I have followed. There are now more than a thousand Discworld characters described here, and that's not all.
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Made a sysop for the many good contributions --Sanity 01:34, 19 August 2006 (CEST)