The Death Of Terry Pratchett

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Well, the time finally came and unfortunately we'll never be able to experience the joy of reading a new book by Terry Pratchett. He was a great writer, a greater person, and quite frankly I've never seen another author or any kind of artists that created things quite the way that he did. Just thought I'd post a little something on here in memory of Pratchett, He was an amazing writer that has impacted my family and I greatly. I'd imagine there are quite a lot of other Pratchett lovers in the Heroes community that are taking his death pretty hard as well.

[hurple]

Agreed.  Loved every Pratchett book I've ever read. 

:'( :gonk: :gonk: :'(

[pewlagon]

I had the honor of meeting Sir Terry Pratchett once. He gave me some simple yet memorable advice on writing. I remember picking up the Hogfather in a book store and tearing through the first quarter of the book before walking up to the register to buy it. Since that fateful day I have bought pretty much everything he put out. The Long Earth series, with Stephen Baxter, is great and will have a decent wrap since they both ironed out details on it from the start.

Yesterday a friend of mine showed me a picture he drew. Mind you, to those that aren't familiar with Discworld this will seem morbid. The drawing was of Death attempting to guide Sir Pratchett through a doorway. Both were stating, "After you. No, after you." the image made me cry all over again.

For me there is one thing I will say about the man. Of all the words in the dictionary one needs to be revised...

Satire: see works of Terry Pratchett.

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I had the honor of meeting Sir Terry Pratchett once. He gave me some simple yet memorable advice on writing. I remember picking up the Hogfather in a book store and tearing through the first quarter of the book before walking up to the register to buy it. Since that fateful day I have bought pretty much everything he put out. The Long Earth series, with Stephen Baxter, is great and will have a decent wrap since they both ironed out details on it from the start.

Yesterday a friend of mine showed me a picture he drew. Mind you, to those that aren't familiar with Discworld this will seem morbid. The drawing was of Death attempting to guide Sir Pratchett through a doorway. Both were stating, "After you. No, after you." the image made me cry all over again.

For me there is one thing I will say about the man. Of all the words in the dictionary one needs to be revised...

Satire: see works of Terry Pratchett.

I definitely agree about the satire statement, even Pratchett's most seriously minded works bordered on satire and were wonderfully adept when it came to poking fun at the stranger norms in society.
This will also sound a bit weird, perhaps even to fans of Pratchett's works, but I find it strangely nice that Death was the greatest creation of Pratchett. After all he managed to make the personification of one of the most terrifying inevitabilities of life into a charming ditzy and ultimately comforting figure. I'm not sure if multiverse theory is true, but if it is I almost hope that in some random far off eventuality, Terry and Death now walk together :)

[EDIT: Fixed quote tags. ~Agge]

[Nos482]

So I just learned (by accident) that my favourite author is dead... :'( :gonk:

"All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE
THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH
THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand.
AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY."

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather