Terry Pratchett 1948 – 2015
Greeting Space Cadets, today we lose another great story teller of our age, Sir Terry Pratchett, the creator of one of my favourite series the Discworld series and the writer of one of my favourite quotes.

“In a distant, and second hand set of dimensions througt wavering star mists, see, the Great A’Tuin. Drifting onwards through space, atop the shell of great turtle, are four giant elephants, upon whose broad shoulders rests… The DiscWorld.”

That’s old Twoflower for you. He just appreciates beauty in his own way. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil, he stares at it and then writes a long poem. But Twoflower would wander off and buy a book on botany, and then as he reads it he would tread on the daffodil.

You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and THEN show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet… you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some… some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.
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