En sorgens dag för mänskligheten...

Mina sociala flöden svämmar över av RIPar för Terry Pratchett.
Och jag gråter. I attacker. Min sorg bara är. Han var.
För mig var han störst. Jag har svårt att tro att jag någonsin kommer att läsa en författare som i mina ögon är bättre. Terry Pratchett hade allt.
 
Det har gått hål i väven. En maska är borta. Det gör ont.
 
”At last, sir Terry, we must walk together. Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. 
The End”.
 
"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it." – from Monstrous Regiment
 
 
 
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. —from Moving Pictures
 
 
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. —from Hogfather
 
 
 
 
I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel. —from the Guardian Book Club
 
 
It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it. —from the foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy, by David Pringle
 
 
 
 
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
 
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.
 
 
 
 
It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done. – from A Hat Full of Sky
 
There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.
 
 
 
 
The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
 
 
If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story. – from The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
 
 
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
 
 
 
 
I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.
 

So much universe, and so little time.