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'''''T'''erry Pratchett: Back in Black'' (see [[Main Page]], thank you [[User:AgProv|AgProv]]) aired on the day my old friend Glenn died. You might have thought he and Terry were as different as possible... but not quite. Glenn had even less formal education and had much more delayed and less substantial monetary success in his field of making excellent [http://www.furyguitar.com/bbmphotos.html guitars] but they shared a trait: a great talent and a devotion to craftsmanship in using it. | |||
As material objects, Glenn's instruments may decay before Terry's more easily preserved thoughts, but both will live on for some time. We could wish that Terry had been given Glenn's extra fourteen years and that Glenn had shared more of Terry's rewards, but {{Death|there's no justice}}.<BR> | |||
I wish I could claim some such legacy. | |||
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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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Terry Pratchett: Back in Black (see Main Page, thank you AgProv) aired on the day my old friend Glenn died. You might have thought he and Terry were as different as possible... but not quite. Glenn had even less formal education and had much more delayed and less substantial monetary success in his field of making excellent guitars but they shared a trait: a great talent and a devotion to craftsmanship in using it.
As material objects, Glenn's instruments may decay before Terry's more easily preserved thoughts, but both will live on for some time. We could wish that Terry had been given Glenn's extra fourteen years and that Glenn had shared more of Terry's rewards, but there's no justice
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I wish I could claim some such legacy.
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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)