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Jan. 12th, 2017 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingEveryone's talking about favourite Pratchett quotes today.
Nobody appear to love my own favourite:
* ...the fastest animal on the Disc is the extremely neurotic Ambiguous Puzuma, which moves so fast that it can actually achieve near-lightspeed in the Disc's magical field. This means that if you can see a puzuma, it isn't there. Most male puzumas die young of acute ankle failure caused by running very fast after females which aren't there, and, of course, achieving suicidal mass in accordance with relativistic theory. The rest of them die of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, since it is impossible for them to know who they are and where they are at the same time, and the see-sawing loss of concentration this engenders means that the puzuma only achieves a sense of identity when it is at rest -- usually about fifty feet into the rubble of what remains of the mountain it just ran into at near light-speed. The puzuma is rumoured to be about the size of a leopard with a rather unique black and white check coat, although those specimens discovered by the Disc's sages and philosophers have inclined them to declare that in its natural state the puzuma is flat, very thin, and dead."
Nobody appear to love my own favourite:
* ...the fastest animal on the Disc is the extremely neurotic Ambiguous Puzuma, which moves so fast that it can actually achieve near-lightspeed in the Disc's magical field. This means that if you can see a puzuma, it isn't there. Most male puzumas die young of acute ankle failure caused by running very fast after females which aren't there, and, of course, achieving suicidal mass in accordance with relativistic theory. The rest of them die of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, since it is impossible for them to know who they are and where they are at the same time, and the see-sawing loss of concentration this engenders means that the puzuma only achieves a sense of identity when it is at rest -- usually about fifty feet into the rubble of what remains of the mountain it just ran into at near light-speed. The puzuma is rumoured to be about the size of a leopard with a rather unique black and white check coat, although those specimens discovered by the Disc's sages and philosophers have inclined them to declare that in its natural state the puzuma is flat, very thin, and dead."
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Date: 2017-01-13 08:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-13 06:17 pm (UTC)Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy Seriph of Al-Yabi was cursed
by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to
Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community
hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and
relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later the spell wore off. These
days, the people of Al-Yabi are renowned for being remarkably short and
bad-tempered.
From Witches Abroad.
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Date: 2017-01-13 10:26 pm (UTC)My favourite probably remains "What can the harvest hope for, if not the care of the reaper man?"