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Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
“Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde”
Beware of the anger of a patient man.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
Hoot mon!
Amazon sez “Book 30 of 40 in the Discworld Series” and “The first in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching”.
I is confuse. Does this mean it is the 30th of 40 and also the first of the 40 to feature Tiffany?
“Does this mean it is the 30th of 40 and also the first of the 40 to feature Tiffany?”
Yes.
Don’t let the 30 of 40 thing turn you off; Diskworld is pretty non-linear as far as I can tell. If you start with Tiffany Aching you can read the books in her story arc (which are all pretty good) regardless of your interest in other Diskworld books.
For example, I also recommend The Color of Magic which is somewhere in the mix. It doesn’t affect the Tiffany Aching arc so I have no idea which book is in which order. (Probably neither did Terry Prachett.) Fun quotes from The Color of Magic: “Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant ‘idiot’.” and “If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting ‘All gods are bastards!”
Pratchett was an excellent writer.
Cool. Thankyew. I am unfamiliar with Discworld. I am now 2 of 1 in the queue holding for Wee Free Men from our local library. Wow. Mr. Terry was a prolific writer.
Wailie Wailie Wailie! Bigjobs! Gae’em a kickin’!
Er, number two of two, not of one. Pre-coffee…