| "Mort, the youngest son of a farming family, is apprenticed to Death. He begins to learn the trade, but his master is often absent (Death has decided to discover what it is like to be human). Rather than taking the Princess Keli's soul at her death, Mort kills her assassin and saves her life. Unfortunately as a result of her not dying, the predestined unification of the cities of Sto Lat and Sto Helit will not happen, and a new reality is created. Mort has to keep on top of the job and ensure reality gets back to more or less where it should be." "Terry Pratchet" by Andrew M Butler |
| Targets |
| Our ideas of death. |
Practically anything can go faster than Disc light, which is lazy and tame, unlike ordinary light. 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 expounded because, at that point, the bar closed. *** 'My granny says that dying is like going to sleep,' Mort added, a shade hopefully. *** "But you're Death," said Mort. "You go around killing people!" *** It is a fact that although the Death of the Discworld is, in his own words, an ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATION, he long ago gave up using the traditional skeletal horses, because of the bother of having to stop all the time to wire bits back on. *** - I USHERED SOULS INTO THE NEXT WORLD. I WAS THE GRAVE OF ALL HOPE. I WAS THE ULTIMATE REALITY. I WAS THE ASSASSIN AGAINST WHOM NO LOCK WOULD HOLD. *** "It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?" *** Only one creature could have duplicated the expressions on their faces, and that would be a pigeon who has heard not only that Lord Nelson has got down off his column but has also been seen buying a 12-bore repeater and a box of cartridges. *** It was hard to drown in the Ankh, but easy to suffocate. *** Her body was shaking like a waterbed in an earthquake zone. *** People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. *** "What time's sunset around here?" *** Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote. *** Light on the Discworld isn't like light elsewhere. It's grown up a bit, it's been around, it doesn't feel the need to rush everywhere. It knows that however fast it goes darkness always gets there first, so it takes it easy. *** |
My name is Radostina Georgieva, "Roddy".I live in California.
I enjoy travelling, reading books, listening to music, going to the movies.
I am constantly looking for ways to challenge myself, learn, and grow.