#terence david john pratchett

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

貧富之間往往只是差別在"觀念"的問題，而價值永遠優先於數字，且認知它的人享用其昂貴，無識得感之人過譽了自己的節儉；有很長的一段時間在我的周遭一直和這樣的一群人生活，我知道卻不能明說，因為會撩起爭論，我不愛。所以我熱愛旅行(旅居在不同的城市或小鎮、村落)你會認識所謂真正的貧窮和富有之人的生活，說穿了他們跟金錢財富沒有絕對的關係，但僅只是觀念和經驗的累積。其實懂得愈多的人愈謙虛。有些人根本不識字，但他們的生活和心靈閃閃發光；有些人穿著一身耀眼奪目，言行舉止令人棄之為糞土；更有些人像一棵老樹，滿是日月精華，當你遇到像樹一樣的人，他會讓你想要坐下來乘��甚至打個盹，無欲無求，也無我，一切仿佛時光靜止，陽光灑灑!

The difference between the rich and the poor is often just a matter of "concept", and value always takes precedence over numbers, and people who knows it enjoy its expensiveness, while people who don't know how to appreciate it overestimate their own frugality; for a long time, I have been living with a group of people like this all my life. I know it but I can't say it openly because it will spark arguments and I don't like it. That's why I love traveling (living in different cities, towns, and villages). You will get to know the lives of the so-called real poor and rich people. To be honest, they have nothing to do with money and wealth, but they are just the accumulation of ideas and experiences. In fact, things the more people knew, the more humble they are. Some people are illiterate at all, but their lives and hearts are sparkling; some people are dressed in dazzling clothes, and their words and deeds make people discard them like dirt; some people are like an old tree, full of the essence of the sun and the moon. When you meet someone like A person like a tree, he will make you want to sit down and enjoy the cool air or even take a nap. He has no desire, no need, no self, everything seems to have stopped and the sun is shining!

- Lan~*

「維姆斯推斷，富人之所以如此富有，是因為他們能夠花更少的錢。以靴子為例…你花五十美元買一雙真正好的皮靴。但是一雙負擔得起的靴子，大約要花十美元，然而你穿一兩季還可以，當它的合成皮塑料板耗盡之後就漏水了… 問題是，好的靴子可以穿很多年，買得起五十美元的人有一雙，並且他們腳上的靴子仍保持乾燥，而一個只能買便宜靴子的窮人在同一時間裡卻花了一百美元買靴子，腳仍然是濕的。」

─ Sir Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms (ebook 電子書)

📌 Terence David John Pratchett || Sir Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) 普萊契爵士出生於英格蘭，是英語文壇最具影響力的諷刺作家之一，被譽為「筆鋒犀利、擅於諷刺的J·R·R·托爾金」。

暱稱泰瑞·普萊契（Terry Pratchett），英國知名作家，擅長文學作品為奇幻文學。至今他共寫過65本書，其作品除了英語外，也翻譯成其他37種語言。其作品總銷量已達8500萬冊。

普萊契早期的愛好包括天文，他喜歡收集Brooke Bond（一種品牌）有關太空的卡片，並擁有一台望遠鏡，他希望長大以後能成為一名天文學家，但因為缺乏數學方面的必要技能，他不得不放棄這一理想。然而，這卻讓他對英國、美國的科幻小說產生了濃厚的興趣。於是普萊契於1963年4月加入了科幻協會，直至幾年後得到了他的第一份工作才退出。

普萊契13歲時在校刊上刊登了他的第一篇短篇小說「The Hades Business」，並在兩年後被出版社出版。普萊契在他15歲的時候通過了5個初級考試（0-levels），並開始學習藝術，英語和歷史中級課程(A-levels)。普萊契最初選擇成為記者。在1965年，普萊契離開學校，為Bucks Free出版社工作。工作之餘，他也會以吉姆叔叔的筆名寫一些兒童故事。

普萊契於1968的時候獲得人生的第一個突破。他應邀去接受一個小型出版公司董事Peter Bander van Duren的採訪。交談期間，普萊契提及了他已經完成的小說《飛毯一族》的手稿，為彼得所讚賞。之後《飛毯一族》於1971年由科林·史密斯出版社發行，且是普萊契自配的插圖。該書一經出版，便好評不斷。此書排在他於1976年出版的科幻小說《The Dark Side of the Sun》以及於1981年出版的科幻小說《Strata》之前。

在幾年的工作之後，普萊契成為涵蓋三個核電站的中央發電局的地區新聞官。他後來開玩笑說他已經證明在美國賓夕法尼亞州的三里島核事故發生的準確無暇的時間，而且如果有人相信的話，他會寫一本有關此事的書。

第一本碟形世界系列的小說《魔法的顏色》的精裝本由科林·史密斯出版社於1983年發行。其平裝本的版權很快便由一個環球公司Corgi獲得。第三本碟形世界系列小說《平等權利》的精裝本版權由Victor Gollancz出版社一直保留到1997年，之後史密斯成為普萊契的經紀人。普萊契的小說碟形世界是Victor Gollancz出版社首次出版的奇幻小說。

普萊契在完成第四部碟形世界系列小說《死神學徒》之後離開了中央發電局，以專注於小說創作。

2007年12月，普萊契聲明他已罹患早發型阿茲海默病。2015年3月12日，他於家中逝世，終年66歲。

[aperint]

Frases Célebres

Frases Célebres Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett (1948-2015) #aperturaintelectual #frasescelebresaintelectual

“La verdad puede ser por ahí, pero las mentiras son dentro de tu cabeza.” Terence David John “Terry” Pratchett (1948-2015) Escritor, guionista, humorista y novelista británico. Sigue Apertura Intelectual en todas nuestras redes: WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Tumblr Reddit Mastodon Te invitamos a que califiques esta información. ENTRADAS RELACIONADAS

[petermorwood]

Professor Doctor Sir Terence David John “Terry” Pratchett OBE BM (Blackboard Monitor), 28th April 1948 - 12th March 2015.

GNU Pterry.

Mind how you go.

[ankh-morporkianpostalworker]

This is a bit of a ramble, but:

I truly believe that Sir Terence David John Pratchett is the greatest fantasy author of the post-Tolkien era. No one has done it as well as he did - prose, characters, tone, plot, themes, humor - he was the master of all of them.

His words danced off the page, from single lines like Death's

"LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?"

To the Vimes Boots Theory or Humans Need Fantasy monologues.

His characters are some of the most richly textured I've ever encountered - Death and Sam Vimes and Moist von Lipwig and Granny Weatherwax, each of them feels like they were given thought and care and used to tell stories that they were uniquely suited to tell.

He controlled tone like a master, from slapstick comedy to serious satire to tense moments where you feel that, just for a second, things might not be okay.

His plots were always believable in the context of the worlds he was telling, and were always engrossing - that the metaphysical adventures of Death and co. felt as natural a fit for Discworld as the starting of the setting's first newspaper, the solving of street crime and unraveling conspiracies and the grand re-opening of a post office is proof enough of that.

He used these plots to explore themes of responsibility, social inequality and duty to a person's community with razor-sharp wit and a deep anger for the injustice of the world around him. He fought the evils of the world with a pen and paper, even as he died. No one will ever do it like he did, but that he did it himself might just be good enough.

He brought comfort and joy and happiness and thought and introspection to millions.

GNU, Terry Pratchett. Mind how you go.

[crowleyholmes]

Hello friends, lovers, hereditary enemies, and fellow Good-Omens-brain-rot-afflicted!

Inspired by some lengthy conversations and the need for reassurance regarding a renewal for season 3, the lovely Eena @michaelsheens and I have decided to start a little Project!

(Sorry, Crowley, we had to…)

THE NICE AND ACCURATE PROPHECIES* WEEK

Running from SEPTEMBER 25TH to OCTOBER 1ST, it’s all themed around season 3 and the assumption we’re gonna get that renewal. (Manifesting, baby.)

✨ THE PLAN ✨

Every day will focus on a theme around which everyone who wants to participate is encouraged to create any kind of content they want to! Art, fanfic, edits, playlists, speculation, meta, go nuts!

(Also please don’t worry if something doesn’t fit neatly into a day’s theme; they’re only meant to give somewhat of a prompt and structure. Ultimately it’s not that strict and serious, we just wanna see your stuff :))

✨ HOW TO PARTICIPATE ✨

Share whatever your big heart and massive brain comes up with and use the tag #gomensnaap

(It’s like a long nap or something.)

You’re also welcome to give shoutouts to other people’s work you love and want to celebrate, but please make sure to link and credit properly (!!!)

Most importantly: have fun <3

✨ THEMES ✨

(under the cut)

DAY 1: “And there will be great lamentations.”

Let’s talk the Second Coming! We start off and warm up with everything plot-related. Theories, meta, crack ideas, let’s hear your thoughts on where you think the Big Main Plot is going to go!

DAY 2: “I can make a difference!”

For day two, let’s focus on Aziraphale’s arc in season 3. Did he go to Heaven with a plan? Or is he winging it? (Pun only somewhat intended.) Was he threatened or manipulated or both or neither? Will he tell Heaven just where they can stick it or can he actually succeed? What’s in store for our favorite angel?

DAY 3: “Hated by Heaven, loathed by Hell. How will our hero cope?”

Day three is all about Crowley and what we think he’s going to get up to. Is he going to go drink himself senseless and have a good cry? Go snek and hybernate for a bit? Hang out with Muriel and do some tempting? Does he have a plan and how will he cope being on his own?

DAY 4: “There was magic abroad in the air…”

Let’s talk Ineffable Husbands! How are Crowley and Aziraphale going to resolve things between them? Will there be a massive fight? Radio silence for days/weeks/months/years? Will they learn to Actually COmmunicate? Will there be grudges, grand gestures, secret meetings, a big rescue mission from either side?

DAY 5: “Extreme sanctions.”

On day six we wanna make ourselves anxious, sad and upset. (As one does.) What thing that may or may not happen in season 3 are you most worried about? Dark/depressed/evil/etc Crowley? Memory-wiped/brain-washed/archangel Aziraphale? Book of Life? How could Neil & Co hurt us the most?

DAY 6: “Do you…want a hot chocolate?”

After day 5’s spiral, it’s time for a metaphorical treat. What are you most looking forward to in season 3? What do you really want to see? Headcanons coming true? Scenes you wish for? Things that’ll make you wanna name your cat/dog/fish/insert other pet here Neil Richard Gaiman or Sir Terence David John Pratchett?

DAY 7: “It’s starts, as it will end, with a garden.”

Finally, to finish it all up, let’s speculate about the end of season 3. How do you think we’ll leave this story? Will things just go back to how they’ve always been? Will there be peace? Earth hidden from Heaven and Hell with a big 500 Lazarii miracle? Aziraphale and Crowley turned human? Or will they get their cottage in the South Downs for the rest of eternity?

[crowleys-aziraphale]

Sir Terence David John Pratchett, known to all of us as Sir Terry Pratchett. Was an english author, humorist, satirist and novelist. Best known for his work such as good omens, Discworld, night watch and many more. Sir Terry Pratchett was the UK's best- selling author of the 90s.

The good omens series was Sir Terry Pratchett's dying wish to Neil gaiman, he wrote Neil a letter, in the letter he told Neil to make the tv adaptation of good omens. Unfortunately he passed away before he ever got a chance to see it. He will always be part of the good omens series, his hat and scarf is in the show, and so is his spirit.

"If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy"

@neil-gaiman

[petermorwood]

Professor Doctor Sir Terence David John “Terry” Pratchett OBE BM (Blackboard Monitor), April 28 1948 – 12 March 2015.

The writer is gone, but the books remain.

[green-alien-sings-pompeii]

All y'all struggling to quit your Harry Potter addiction, might I suggest Sir Terence David John Pratchett and his much better writing

[sandraciabatta]

хэд: именно в 18 веке Кроули научился делать эти чертовы блины, лишь бы ангел больше не появлялся во Франции, из которой его потом приш��ось вытаскивать.

На самом деле, Кроули многому научился благодаря Азирафаэлю, или же его глупости?

[maaarine]

MBTI & Writers Terry Pratchett: INTP

“Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. 

Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year.

The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.

Pratchett, with more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. (…)

Pratchett died at his home on the morning of 12 March 2015 from Alzheimer's.

The Telegraph reported an unidentified source as saying that despite his previous discussion of assisted suicide, his death had been natural.”

Sources: video, wiki/Terry_Pratchett. Screencaps: transcript.

[dimity-lawn]

I had a dream last night where a handful of random strangers and I ended up in some strange old library without a clue as to why or how we were there, or where "there" was, for that matter. It was not the Unseen University Library, but it did seem to go on forever. Among the reasons that it was strange was that there was dust everywhere, but no cobwebs (as if it had been maintained, but somehow the dust stayed intact), the shelves were full of beautifully bound old hardcover books, but the titles seemed fuzzy and out of focus. People seemed interested in the books but the books seemed to resist by putting out nonthreatening but firm do not open or attempt to read vibe. Also, though there was enough light to see, there was no ceiling, only a starry sky. Then for some reason the thought seemed to occur to everyone at once: find Discworld.

The books were a couple of rows deep on the shelves and other books were stacked horizontally on top, so that you would need to remove the top books and then the front row in order to see the second row, but eventually I pulled yet another section of top and front row books from the shelf, about 11 well loved Discworld books floated up and over to a table. Slowly at first, but with increasing speed, we began to find others, all well loved and battered paperbacks. But we could only find 40. Stranger still, nobody could agree on what 40 they were. Someone would say that The Light Fantastic was missing only for someone to hold up I Shall Wear Midnight to show that it wasn't, and the original speaker would say that the other person was holding up The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.

As we all tried to figure this out, something made everyone look up towards the sky at the same time, and we all watched as large glowing letters appear one at a time (starting with a small uppercase A) in pale-to-sky blue writing (in a font that somehow managed to be a combination of "generic medieval manuscript" and "art nouveau") until they eventually spelled out

. TERENCE DAVID JOHN PRATCHETT . I ATEN'T DEAD

and the missing book appeared and floated down. Everyone watched it descend in a blue glow that matched the writing, and after it had landed on the table I looked up at the writing in the sky as it seemed to slowly fade in a somewhat sparkly way. Once it had gone everyone started talking about what had just happened, and I alone noticed a tall figure robed in black standing between shelves and running a bone finger along a page of a book some distance away. He seemed to notice me, looked up, closed the book, and put it back on the shelf before looking at me again. One blue dot in an empty eye socket dimmed as he tried to wink at me and swept his arms towards the shelves as if telling me to look. I did. Now the author's name or a title became readable, and they were all either about the writing of Terry Pratchett, works that inspired him/he referenced, or were by Terry Pratchett himself.

Unfortunately, I woke up before I could read anything.

[mistninja]

"Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (let's acknowledge it here, just once, but hereinafter, I'm sure he won't mind if we leave it as plain Terry?)" 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[petermorwood]

Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE, April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

Our friend Pterry.

Mind how you go.

[terrypratchettappreciation]

Speak His Name

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”--Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 - 12 March 2015)

[ineffablegame]

I know we’ve all accepted “Janthony” as Crowley’s middle name, but consider:

1. Jesus

2. Judas

3. Job (that entire part of the Bible was, as Aziraphale would call it, a clever ruse)

4. John (either of Patmos or of Terence David John Pratchett)

5. Jezebel 

[unpensadoranonimo]

Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett decía: ¡ojalá vivas en tiempos interesantes!. Reito, IN-TE-RE-SAN-TES, ¡no exasperantes!