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"Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living."
-- Arthur C. Clarke, preface to 2001: A Space Odyssey
That line stood my hair on end, and it's the first thing you read in the book.
"Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape."
-- Terry Pratchett, The Hogfather
Sir Terry writes comedic fantasy, but he regularly slips in little bits of wisdom -- some hopeful and some horrifying -- that kick you in the gut. I've always loved the above description of what it is to be human (as spoken by the Grim Reaper, who is rather a genteel and well-meaning fellow in the book.)
-- Arthur C. Clarke, preface to 2001: A Space Odyssey
That line stood my hair on end, and it's the first thing you read in the book.
"Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape."
-- Terry Pratchett, The Hogfather
Sir Terry writes comedic fantasy, but he regularly slips in little bits of wisdom -- some hopeful and some horrifying -- that kick you in the gut. I've always loved the above description of what it is to be human (as spoken by the Grim Reaper, who is rather a genteel and well-meaning fellow in the book.)