Joyous news!!My #Discworld collection is finally complete.After about 35 years of getting my first one, and coming back to it recently, I’ve finally got the whole set.
Terry Pratchett fans might remember a contraption called the "Glooper" from the book "Making Money". It was a computational model of Anhk-Morpork's economy that worked by sending water through various valves and tubes. In the end, it worked a little too well. TIL that this sort of machine was used in this world, too, in the 1940s.https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/04/07/g-s1-116575/how-bill-phillips-used-flowing-water-to-model-the-economy#Pratchett #Discworld
PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES *DO* PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED 'LIVING'.Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld
#RhetoricalQuestion: So, if Eskarina Smith is a wizard, will she be in wizard books or only the witch books, or any more books at all? Remember, this is a #RhetoricalQuestion. I DON'T want an answer! #DiscWorld
