Ode to Multiple Universes

Terry Pratchett at his home in 1997; Credit: PA Wire

I do have worlds enough and time

to spare an hour to find a rhyme

to take a week to pen an article

a day to find a rhyme for 'particle'.

In many worlds my time is free

to spend ten minutes over tea

And steal the time from some far moon

so words can take all afternoon,

Away beyond the speed of light

I'll write a novel in one night.

Aeons beckon, if I want 'em...

...but I can't have em', 'cos of Quantum.

~ Terry Pratchett

Ode to Multiple Universes

Terry Pratchett at his home in 1997; Credit: PA Wire

I do have worlds enough and time

to spare an hour to find a rhyme

to take a week to pen an article

a day to find a rhyme for 'particle'.

In many worlds my time is free

to spend ten minutes over tea

And steal the time from some far moon

so words can take all afternoon,

Away beyond the speed of light

I'll write a novel in one night.

Aeons beckon, if I want 'em...

...but I can't have em', 'cos of Quantum.

~ Terry Pratchett

Perspicacity

Credit: Thinking Witch by UntoldMage

First Sight and Second Thoughts, that’s what a witch had to rely on: First Sight to see what’s really
there, and Second Thoughts to watch the First Thoughts to check that they were thinking right. Then
there were the Third Thoughts, which Tiffany had never heard discussed and therefore kept quiet about;
they were odd, seemed to think for themselves, and didn’t turn up very often....

That’s interesting, said her Third Thoughts that busied themselves with the world in their own way. You
can’t see what’s hidden inside an invisible fist. How does that work? And why are those little purplegray blurs in the air where you’d expect to find eyes? Why aren’t they invisible?

That’s Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they’re the thoughts
that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

That part of Tiffany’s brain that was a little less precise at the moment watched the silver horse dangle
on its chain.

Her First Thought was: Take it.
Her Second Thought was: Don’t take it. It’s a trap.
Her Third Thought was: Really don’t take it. It will be colder than you can imagine.

~ Terry Pratchett

Perspicacity

Credit: Thinking Witch by UntoldMage

First Sight and Second Thoughts, that’s what a witch had to rely on: First Sight to see what’s really
there, and Second Thoughts to watch the First Thoughts to check that they were thinking right. Then
there were the Third Thoughts, which Tiffany had never heard discussed and therefore kept quiet about;
they were odd, seemed to think for themselves, and didn’t turn up very often....

That’s interesting, said her Third Thoughts that busied themselves with the world in their own way. You
can’t see what’s hidden inside an invisible fist. How does that work? And why are those little purplegray blurs in the air where you’d expect to find eyes? Why aren’t they invisible?

That’s Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they’re the thoughts
that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

That part of Tiffany’s brain that was a little less precise at the moment watched the silver horse dangle
on its chain.

Her First Thought was: Take it.
Her Second Thought was: Don’t take it. It’s a trap.
Her Third Thought was: Really don’t take it. It will be colder than you can imagine.

~ Terry Pratchett

Quote: Sex and cookery

Source: BBC Good Food

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

~Terry Pratchett

Quote: Sex and cookery

Source: BBC Good Food

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

~Terry Pratchett

Quote: Choice

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This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

~ Terry Pratchett

Quote: Choice

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This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

~ Terry Pratchett

Quote on types of people

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There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.

The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.

~ Terry Pratchett

Quote on types of people

Photo credit: clarita from morguefile.com

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.

The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.

~ Terry Pratchett

Quote on exclamation marks

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind." ~ Terry Pratchett in Eric
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. ~ Terry Pratchett in Reaper Man 

Quote on exclamation marks

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind." ~ Terry Pratchett in Eric
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. ~ Terry Pratchett in Reaper Man 

A Stone I died

A stone I died and rose again a plant;
A plant I died and rose an animal;
I died an animal and was born a man.
Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?

~ Maulana Jalalu'l-din Rumi

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"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING," said Death. "JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

~ Terry Pratchett

A Stone I died

A stone I died and rose again a plant;
A plant I died and rose an animal;
I died an animal and was born a man.
Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?

~ Maulana Jalalu'l-din Rumi

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"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING," said Death. "JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

~ Terry Pratchett

Quote on light and darkness

Credit: thewinglessflyer

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. 

~ Terry Pratchett

Quote on light and darkness

Credit: thewinglessflyer

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. 

~ Terry Pratchett

Quote on being a witch

Source: Google/Favim

She was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed.

- Terry Pratchett

Quote on being a witch

Source: Google/Favim

She was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed.

- Terry Pratchett

Granny Weatherwax - 11

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of people who ever became lost. It was that, just at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

~ Terry Pratchett

Granny Weatherwax - 11

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of people who ever became lost. It was that, just at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

~ Terry Pratchett