When I think of all the people the world would be a better place without…
… Sir Terry Pratchett was not one of them.
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When I think of all the people the world would be a better place without…March 12th, 2015 |
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Yes the sadness has reached Lebanon as well. I learned English reading his books 🙁
But on the bright side, English departments everywhere will now be able to treat his work as the great literature it is. Content aside – and that would be a very large ‘aside’ – he was probably the best pure writer of English fiction in the 20th Century. His use of words was exact, his sentences parsed, his paragraphs cohered, his chapters broke logically and his books were exactly as long as their plots.
I should have added: if there is one word that describes the theme of Pratchett’s work, it is “decency.” I can’t think of a body of work I’d rather see young people read.
A sad day. He enriched our world (unlike so many celebrities who impoverish it). He will be missed.
Quite so Perry.
The world is definitely a poorer place without him.
I’m comforted by the fact that he wrote a tremendous number of books, and they will not be forgotten quickly.
PersonFromPorlock
> if there is one word that describes the theme of Pratchett’s work, it is “decency.”
“There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That’s what happened in deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.
What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, and not according to any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, in the end, more or less turn out alright”
from Small Gods
Alan Little
March 13, 2015 at 1:55 pm
“Small Gods” is definitely one of his more profound works. I don’t suppose the lit’ry world takes it all that seriously, it being ‘impossible’ for a book to be both deep and hysterically funny. At least a modern book.