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Facebook flog - Mar 12 2015
Link: Mar 12 2015, 16:50
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.
Terry Prachett died today, for the few people on the planet that don't know who he is, check out his Disc World books. You will rapidly have to choose which of his cast of characters you like to read the most; witches, city watch, wizards, or Death. I'm a toss up between the city watch, and Death. He was only sixty-six when he finally lost his heart-breaking battle with Alzheimer's. He'd been very public about his illness and the insidious effects it was having on him, his life, and his writing. It had given him a platform to speak about wanting to die with dignity, and not have anyone face criminal charges helping him live and die as he wished. In the end, he died of complications from his illness, but he spoke bravely and eloquently about the lack of choice he faced in his native Britain, if he had decided to end his life early.
I had the privledge of meeting Sir Terry Prachett. (I love that he was Sir Terry, and that he had his own sword forged for it, though he wasn't allowed to carry it, because of the blade laws in Britain. A knight without a sword seems a sad thing.)He was as charming in person as you'd expect. Our heart goes out to his family and friends, and to his fans. At the time when Stephen King was the best selling author in America, Terry was the best selling author in the British Isles. It says something about both countries that America was enamored of horror at the same time that England was in love with comedic fantasy. I've never figured out exactly what it says about our respective countries, but it has always seemed an important difference between us, and proof that speaking the same language doesn't make us as alike as we think.
The thought that Terry will never write another story in his worlds is sad to me, both as a reader of his work, and as a fellow writer. He created such a rich world, big enough to stomp around in for all sorts of adventures, that to know he will not be our guide for more high-jinks makes the world seem less bright, somehow. It truly does feel as if some of the light has been extinguished from the world as if we've lost a star that warmed us.
I don't know what else to say, except that he will be missed for so many reasons, and remember a dragon is not just for Hogswatch.
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.
Terry Prachett died today, for the few people on the planet that don't know who he is, check out his Disc World books. You will rapidly have to choose which of his cast of characters you like to read the most; witches, city watch, wizards, or Death. I'm a toss up between the city watch, and Death. He was only sixty-six when he finally lost his heart-breaking battle with Alzheimer's. He'd been very public about his illness and the insidious effects it was having on him, his life, and his writing. It had given him a platform to speak about wanting to die with dignity, and not have anyone face criminal charges helping him live and die as he wished. In the end, he died of complications from his illness, but he spoke bravely and eloquently about the lack of choice he faced in his native Britain, if he had decided to end his life early.
I had the privledge of meeting Sir Terry Prachett. (I love that he was Sir Terry, and that he had his own sword forged for it, though he wasn't allowed to carry it, because of the blade laws in Britain. A knight without a sword seems a sad thing.)He was as charming in person as you'd expect. Our heart goes out to his family and friends, and to his fans. At the time when Stephen King was the best selling author in America, Terry was the best selling author in the British Isles. It says something about both countries that America was enamored of horror at the same time that England was in love with comedic fantasy. I've never figured out exactly what it says about our respective countries, but it has always seemed an important difference between us, and proof that speaking the same language doesn't make us as alike as we think.
The thought that Terry will never write another story in his worlds is sad to me, both as a reader of his work, and as a fellow writer. He created such a rich world, big enough to stomp around in for all sorts of adventures, that to know he will not be our guide for more high-jinks makes the world seem less bright, somehow. It truly does feel as if some of the light has been extinguished from the world as if we've lost a star that warmed us.
I don't know what else to say, except that he will be missed for so many reasons, and remember a dragon is not just for Hogswatch.
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Now I must go cry again.
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Is the polywog now a singular entity or is Laurell possessed of the Royal We?
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This might also confirm that the harem really is some sort of megacharacter, even to her.
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I got to meet Terry Pratchett back when I was reading the novels, and she is right, he was very charming and he was a very generous and kind person to his fans. I remember he was sitting in the hotel lobby before his book signing, just chatting with all of us, his fans, about movies we liked. He didn't have to do that, but he seemed genuinely interested in people's opinions.
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...now I have an image of Anita reviving herself from the dead and trying to have an orgy with the scorpions...