And men marched back.
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' Like most Grim Reapers, he is a black-robed skeleton who usually carries a scythe. Have you thought of … So that you can come back. Like most Grim Reapers, he is a black-robed skeleton (usually- he wears the Dean's "Born to Rune" leather jacket in Soul Music, and overalls in Reaper Man) carrying a scythe and, for royalty, a sword (he once told Mort). “Sybil’s female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars.
“Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.” to a troll was suicide. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon ... Pratchett here draws upon the Greek thauma or "marvel" in creating the name of this basic unit. and I've always loved how Pratchett writes him as benovelent kind and pretty innocent. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. No matter how fast light travels, it finds … It's a … She wasn't one for that kind of thing - never one to push herself forward* The sun rose slowly, as if … Hi guys :) I'm pretty fascinated by Death at the moment (the character, I mean!) Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.” “It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. “On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.” She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly.
* 'It's not safe!' You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes and phrases like "my kind of town" and "I wanna be a part of it" in it; the kind of song where people dance in the street and give the singer apples and join in and a dozen lowly matchgirls suddenly show amazing choreographical ability and everyone acts like cheery lovable citizens instead of the murderous, evil-minded, self-centered people they suspect themselves to be.
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Death is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and a parody of several other personifications of death. But the point was that if Carrot had erupted into a song, people WOULD have joined in.
“In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane.