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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > The Terry Pratchett Thread: For the sake of prisoners and the flight of birds
 
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Augustus Artorius
Jul 5, 2005

In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations, it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
Does anyone remember which book it is where someone talks about grabbing time by the forelock? I'm pretty sure it's a Watch book, but it could just as easily be one of the Monks books or even one of the Susan ones.

There's a quote somewhere in that certain book along the lines of 'Grab a hold of Time by the forelock, since she's got nothing on behind' or something.

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Augustus Artorius
Jul 5, 2005

In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations, it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.

Moist von Lipwig posted:

I'm almost done reading Night Watch at the moment (ironically, I didn't even sleep last night because of that drat book). It's weird such a weird book to read now. At first I thought he was referring to the post 9/11 political landscape, and then I was like 'No, that can't be it', until I realized it was a 2002 novel and quite obviously was. It's weird having Discworld reference current events.

I always got the feeling that Night Watch was more a critique of modern movements trying to style themselves after or emulate the uprisings and revolutions of 1840s Europe, and less a critique of a post 9/11 world.

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