When one’s foot is stuck in the Grey Miasma of H’Rull it is much easier to step right in and sink rather than prolong the struggle. You’re just as dead if you fall from forty feet as you are from four thousand fathoms, that’s what I say. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant “idiot”. Let’s just say if complete and utter chaos were lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting “All gods are bastards.”
Promotion in the Assassin’s Guild was by competitive examination, the Practical being the most – indeed, the only – part. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.īeing Ymor’s right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. The Librarian as he appears in The Discworld Companion, illustrated by Paul Kidby There’s an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet… And Now: On to the Quotes! On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out.
This is where it all begins - with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind. The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett’s maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. If you’ve seen the film The Color of Magic, this book contains the first half of the film while The Light Fantastic relates the events from the second-half of the film. In this novel, Pratchett introduces us to the workings of the Disc – its mechanics, metaphysics, morality, etc – through the eyes of the Disc’s first Tourist, Twoflower. This is the first published Discworld novel it is also the first in the Rincewind Cycle – the series of books that follow the misadventures of the “WIZZARD” Rincewind. The quotes I share should not be considered the whole of Sir Terry’s excellent prose indeed, there are the tasty appetizers to a succulent, nourishing meal. With the passing of Sir Terry Pratchett and the publication of The Shepherd’s Crown, I embarked on an epic re-reading of all 41 official Discworld novels, with the goal of finishing by 31 December, 2016.įamous for its wit and wisdom, the series offers countless quotable quotes on a variety of subjects.
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away
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