![]() The inhabitants of this place, it is obvious, won't have any truck with global theories. There are continents, archipelagos, seas, deserts, mountain ranges and even a tiny central ice cap. It is Great A'Tuin, one of the rare astrochelonians from a universe where things are less as they are and more like people imagine them to be, and it carries on its meteor-pocked shell four giant elephants who bear on their enormous shoulders the great round wheel of the Discworld.Īs the viewpoint swings around, the whole of the world can be seen by the light of its tiny orbiting sun. Then it comes into view overhead, bigger than the biggest, most unpleasantly armed starcruiser in the imagination of a three-ring film-maker: a turtle, ten thousand miles long. It is a deep, vibrating chord that hints that the brass section may break in at any moment with a fanfare for the cosmos, because the scene is the blackness of deep space with a few stars glittering like the dandruff on the shoulders of God. Watch closely, the special effects are quite expensive.Ī bass note sounds. However, it is primarily a story about a world. Because this is also a story about sex, although probably not in the athletic, tumbling, count-the-legs-and-divide-by-two sense unless the characters get totally beyond the author's control. It may, however, help to explain why Gandalf never got married and why Merlin was a man. This is a story about magic and where it goes and perhaps more importantly where it comes from and why, although it doesn't pretend to answer all or any of these questions. Only dumb redheads in fifties' sitcoms are wacky. ![]() ![]() I would like it to be clearly understood that this book is not wacky.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |