Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett [138]
The Dark Side of the Sun
Strata
Truckers • Diggers • Wings
Only You Can Save Mankind
Johnny and the Dead
Johnny and the Bomb
The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Jollife)
Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents*
The Discworld Series
The Color of Magic* • The Light Fantastic* • Equal Rites*
Mort* • Sourcery* • Wyrd Sisters* • Pyramids*
Guards! Guards!* • Eric (with Josh Kirby)*
Moving Pictures* • Reaper Man • Witches Abroad
Small Gods* • Lords and Ladies* • Men at Arms*
Soul Music* • Interesting Times* • Maskerade*
Feet of Clay* • Hogfather* • Jingo* • The Last Continent*
Carpe Jugulum* • The Fifth Elephant* • The Truth*
Thief of Time* • The Last Hero*
Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (with Graham Higgins)
The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stephen Briggs)
The Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)
The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs)
Coming Soon in Hardcover
Night Watch*
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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* Except in very small universes.
* Mostly involving big, big beachballs.
* Quite an overrated activity.
* An edge witch is one who makes her living on the edges, in that moment when boundary conditions apply—between life and death, light and dark, good and evil and, most dangerous of all, today and tomorrow.
* But they still use forks, or, at least, the idea of forks. There may, as the philosopher says, be no spoon, although this begs the question of why there is the idea of soup.
* And the story continues: The novice who had protested that it was only the shrine of a sweeper ran away from the temple; the student who said nothing remained a sweeper for the rest of his life; and the student who had seen the inevitable shape of the story went, after much agonizing and several months of meticulous sweeping, to Lu-Tze and knelt and asked to be shown the Right Way. Whereupon the sweeper took him to the dojo of the Tenth Djim, with its terrible multibladed fighting machines and its fearsome serrated weapons such as the clong-clong and the uppsi. The story runs that the sweeper then opened a cupboard at the back of the dojo and produced a broom and spake thusly: “One hand here and the other here, understand? People never get it right. Use good, even strokes and let the broom do most of the work. Never try to sweep up a big pile, you’ll end up sweeping every bit of dust twice. Use your dustpan wisely, and remember: a small brush for