Pyramids - Terry Pratchett [121]
ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.
*It was, therefore, colloquially known as the Djinn palace.
*You know. The bit you can’t reach with the straw.
*But not immediately, of course, because messages change in the telling and some ancestors were not capable of perfect enunciation and others were trying to be helpful and supplying what they thought were lost words. The message received by Teppicymon originally began, “Handcuffed to the bed, the aunt thirsted.”
*A less desiccated culture would have used the phrase “at sea.”
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Part I The Book of Going Forth
Part II The Book of the Dead
Part III The Book of the New Son
Part IV The Book of 101 Things a Boy Can Do
About the Author
Praise
Other Books by Terry Pratchett
Copyright
About the Publisher