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Tales from the DrumAuthor: The Medieval Gnome
On the first, second, and third Friday of every month, its Tales From the Drumthe Mended Drum, that is. We also bring you three-minute long mini-episodes, cleverly entitled Pratchips (like potato chips, see?) every Monday-Thursday. All of these are (usually) about the places, spaces, races, and other words that end in aces of the Discworld, that pizza-shaped place (but no anchovies) that rides through space on the backs of the massive elephants Tubul, Berilia, Jerakeen and Great TPhon, which themselves stand atop the 10,000 mile-long world Turtle, ATuin. (According to the dwarfs, there was once a Fifth Elephant, which slipped of ATuins carapace and crashed into the Disc. But the dwarfs can be funny that way.) Obviously, a place such as this could exist only every normal curve must have its outliers, where the fabric of reality is thin, and magic is an everydaywell, reality. Of course, it was actually the late Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE, who created the Discworld. He chronicled those places, spaces, etc. in 41 Discworld novels. In 500 years, he will probably be the only 20th-century author who is still being read. Seriously. He was that good. He was also incredibly prolific. In a span of 32 years, he wrote 70 books. Theyve sold northward of 50 million copies, last I saw. He was knighted in 2008 by Queen Elizabeth II. Sir Terry passed away in 2015 from a rare form of early onset Alzheimers disease. GNU Terry Pratchett. If you dont understand that, you can find out about it in Going Postal. Also, il miglior fabbro. Thats from T.S. Eliots The Waste Land. But you knew that. Thanks for listeningand mind how you go! GNU Terry Pratchett Language: en-us Genres: Arts, Books, Comedy Fiction, Fiction Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Wednesday, 1 January, 1000
