(January 14, 2010 at 11:14 am)Lilith_86 Wrote: The Hogfather
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
The Hogfather
Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?
Partchett is far and away my favourite author, even surpassing Douglas Adams, (this will upset Darwinian).
Read all his books used to have soul music on video but no longer.
All of his books, as well as being vastly entertaining, have some deeper truth to impart, like a modern Dickens.
His dementia will rob us of a great writer, but not just yet!
Small Gods my favourite
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
