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'''W'''e gave up our land-line telephone the other day. We never got a call on it except for phishing expeditions on the pretext of sending someone from India to clean our ducts. Now I wonder if the country will be better off if the whole copper-wire system which served us pretty well for a century has to be abandoned for lack of use. Then I relate this to the damage done here by spammers, search engine optimisers and similar vermin. Won't society have to develop some new rules, laws and mechanisms to fight this corrosion as we become more dependent on these communication networks?
'''E'''lmore Leonard {{wp|Elmore_Leonard|wow}}. He had not quite the depth of Terry Pratchett, but maintained a high entertainment value over sixty years of prolific activity. What could The Author do with another twenty years?


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What if the stories were true? What if there really were Vampires and Werewolves and Wizards and Witches who really could turn you into a toad, or make you think they had? Suppose Nick and Nora Charles were the most powerful couple in the country...

There is a story that the world is a disc borne on the backs of four elephants which stand on the carapace of an enormous turtle. In one corner of the Multiverse (the one farthest from Reality) this, too, is true. This is where the story creates the history and a one-in-a-million chance turns up nine times out of ten and the ocean falls into space around the rim without depleting itself. On the Discworld, "what if?" must be answered, the stories lived, the myth made real.

Tales from this remote universe arrive regularly via inspiration particles intercepting the particularly receptive and talented brain of Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to sort, file and illuminate the elements of these chronicles in this little corner of the vast library of L-space. Just don't forget your ball of string.

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Elmore Leonard wow. He had not quite the depth of Terry Pratchett, but maintained a high entertainment value over sixty years of prolific activity. What could The Author do with another twenty years?

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I sometimes sit and laugh giddily at the mere existence of some Pratchett characters (Carrot Ironfoundersson, say) and the reality he creates out of the absurd stereotype. This is often toward the end of the bottle of wine, but still, it suggests how he's different from other writers I have followed. There are now more than a thousand Discworld characters described here, and that's not all.




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Made a sysop for the many good contributions --Sanity 01:34, 19 August 2006 (CEST)