![]() ![]() 'I mean,' the headmistress mumbled, 'childhood is a time for play and-' 'You should not be teaching them to read at all yet!' she snapped. 'But that's a dreadf-' Madam Frout stopped, and began again. It would have been rude of me to say that there is a circle of Hell reserved for teachers like Miss Smith.' We're reading Grim Fairy Tales at the moment.' 'My children have learned to expect a plot. 'Miss Smith thinks a good book is about a boy and his dog chasing a big red ball,' said Miss Susan. Their reading ability is, she says, rather unfortunately advanced. although Miss Smith has told me that the children coming up from your class are, er, restless. “There have been complaints?' said Miss Susan. express herself by shouting some, some, some terrible words.” why had they copied internal organs? Yuerkkk. She was being harassed by her internal organs. The Auditors could survive quite well by exchanging molecules with their surroundings and making use of any local source of energy. ![]() The stomach was a bag for digesting food. There was this horrible desire, second by second, to hang on.Īnd she felt hungry. She could leave it at any time and yet, and yet. This wretched body was full of opportunities for yuerkkk. Īs far as she knew, in the whole life of the universe, no Auditor had ever experienced the sensation of yuerkkk. It was ridiculous to have to communicate by flapping bits of your skin, and as for the tongue. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Thief of Time is the fifth book in the Death series.“She felt livid. They store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.īut with the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time begins for History monk for Lu Tze and his suspiciously talented apprentice Lobsang Ludd.īecause a truly accurate clock will stop time.Īnd when time stands still, everything in human existence stops with it. The Monks of History have the glamorous job of time management in the Discworld. You can let it move fast or slowly but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop. The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is. 'This is the best Pratchett I've read' Sunday Telegraph ![]()
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