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"The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle.
He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon.
His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed."
Terry Pratchett, Mort
(, Mon 19 Sep 2022, 16:02, Share, Reply)
Wow. He's a lot weirder on here than he was in real life
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Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Mon 19 Sep 2022, 19:20,
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Never meet your heroes.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 19 Sep 2022, 19:50,
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Especially after they're dead
It's either very dull, or horrifying.
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Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Mon 19 Sep 2022, 20:30,
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It's in desperate need of a major update, don't you think?
Some of it hasn't seen any new material since before Sir Terry's embuggerance.
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Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Tue 20 Sep 2022, 18:37,
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If I’m brutally honest, neither did the books.
And I’m not just saying that because the way kindles handle footnotes is completely unsuited to his style; the later books really did lack something. Maybe it was stories that didn’t involve Tiffany Aching.
Also, Jeremy Irons was infinitely better suited to play a predatory flamingo than Charles Dance despite the latter having the better voice. I can only hope they get him back for any future adaptations, assuming there are any after the steaming pile of shit that was The Watch.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 20 Sep 2022, 20:24,
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You might not know about, and may enjoy, the short story, "Theatre of Cruelty".
He's been rather lackadaisical since his death.
His kid, Ri, has his permission to write more DW books, but says she won't - only spin-offs, side-stories.
It'll be interesting to see what happens with that, 'coz she's quite good at writing; she's done various video games and shit.[1].
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Irons or Dance - I don't really care for the video adaptations, so I have no opinion. I like the books. I don't exactly hate the movies, but they don't float my boat.
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