Terry Pratchett Quote
There was a sudden silence from the combo in the smoke. One of the trolls picked up a small rock and started to pound it gently, producing a slow, sticky rhythm that clung to the walls like smoke. And from the smoke, Ruby emerged like a galleon out of the fog with a ridiculous feather boa around her neck. It was continental drift with words. She began to sing.The trolls stood in respectful silence. After a while Victor heard a sob. Tears were rolling down Rock's face.What's the song about? he whispered. Rock leaned down.Is ancient folklorique troll song, he said. Is about Amber and Jasper. They were— he hesitated, and waved his hands about vaguely. Friends. Good friends?I think I know what you mean, said Victor. And one day Amber takes her troll’s dinner down to the cave and finds him— Rock waved his hands in vague yet thoroughly descriptive motions —with another lady troll. So she go home and get her club and come back and beat him to death, thump, thump, thump. ’Cos he was her troll and he done her wrong. Is very romantic song.
There was a sudden silence from the combo in the smoke. One of the trolls picked up a small rock and started to pound it gently, producing a slow, sticky rhythm that clung to the walls like smoke. And from the smoke, Ruby emerged like a galleon out of the fog with a ridiculous feather boa around her neck. It was continental drift with words. She began to sing.The trolls stood in respectful silence. After a while Victor heard a sob. Tears were rolling down Rock's face.What's the song about? he whispered. Rock leaned down.Is ancient folklorique troll song, he said. Is about Amber and Jasper. They were— he hesitated, and waved his hands about vaguely. Friends. Good friends?I think I know what you mean, said Victor. And one day Amber takes her troll’s dinner down to the cave and finds him— Rock waved his hands in vague yet thoroughly descriptive motions —with another lady troll. So she go home and get her club and come back and beat him to death, thump, thump, thump. ’Cos he was her troll and he done her wrong. Is very romantic song.
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About Terry Pratchett
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.
With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001, he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010.
In December 2007 Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust (now Alzheimer's Research UK, ARUK), filmed three television programmes chronicling his experiences with the condition for the BBC, and became a patron of ARUK. Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, at the age of 66.