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It is better to build a seismograph than to worship the volcano
Tremendous interview about religion with the truly magnificent Terry Pratchett:
I asked a teacher what the opposite of a miracle was and she, without thinking, I assume, said it was an act of God.
You shouldn’t say something like that to the kind of kid who will grow up to be a writer; we have long memories.
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Pratchett is one of my favourite writers. A lot of people just think that he writes comedy fantasy. But no, every joke in the books is not just for entertaining purposes, he wants to show the people the absurdity of normal life, in this world, and not the discworld. There is a lot of wisdom in his books, even some very good points about magick (if you have teenage kids who want to know something about magick and growing up, give them the Tiffany-Aching trilogy
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It is very sad that he was diagnozed with Alzheimer. A good friend of mine said a few month ago (she loves this guy, too) that the saddest thing will be when DEATH comes to claim him Terry will have forgotten that he invented DEATH himself.
I hope he will still work for some decades, beating Alzheimer (yeah I know, not possible), and will write a few dozen more books. And perhaps some new sky channel discworld movies?
This interview shows also how deep his thoughts are, although funny, but deep nevertheless. Humour/Laughing is the best attitude towards a universe that is a joke in itself (AC).
I’ll end with my 2 favourite quotes from Terry:
“Things that try to look like things look more like things than things. Well known fact” Granny Weatherwax, coolest Witch on the Discworld
“The natural number of witches in a coven is ONE” also Granny Weatherwax (from Wyrd (!) Sisters, a great book with a very good description of summoning and banishing demons
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Frank