Friday 4 October 2024

Terry Pratchett in the Bookshop

The Colour of Magic by Vadim Jean mucked about by Terry Pratchett

"The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." - Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

































 

Wednesday 2 October 2024

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in the Bookshop

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

"Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it." - Jim Butcher