hwathreads.blogg.se - Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett

You cared not because it was kind or good, but because it was right. No one asked you to pay it, but the very absence of demand was a moral obligation. to see with the nose of a dog, all smells now colors. to listen with the body of a beetle, so that the world is a three-dimensional pattern of vibrations. through the eyes of gnats, seeing the slow patterns of time in the fast pattern of one day, their minds traveling rapidly as lightning. We were too busy makin our own entertainment. We never had time to read when we was young. Books? What good are they? Theres too much reading these days. ∽ont hold with schools, said Granny Weatherwax. You take some girl with a bum like two pigs in a blanket and a head full of air and then she marries a king or a prince or someone and suddenly shes this radiant right royal princess. ∽you think maybe we ought to have taught her everything we know? Yeah, said Nanny Ogg, as they disappeared into the bracken. We taught her everything she knows, said Granny Weatherwax. But here and now, thought Nanny Ogg, it was hard to think of more than one or two. There are an uncountable number of things nastier to walk through, especially if theyre shoulder-high. Theres nothing nastier to walk through than shoulder-high wet bracken. He had formed the unusual opinion that the job of a king is to make the kingdom a better place for everyone to live in. Verence was a great believer in the usefulness of knowledge derived from books. No one had ever told him how to be a king, so he had to find out for himself. In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded. The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before. The point is, theres always something before. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years.