I Miss Terry Pratchett
The article reflects on the impact of Terry Pratchett's writing on the author's teenage years. It highlights how Pratchett's unique approach to fantasy resonated with young readers, offering both humor and intelligence. The author reminisces about the memories associated with reading Pratchett's works and the characters that shaped their understanding of literature.
- ▪The author first encountered Terry Pratchett's writing at the age of sixteen in a French classroom.
- ▪Pratchett's books were designed to be small and easily hidden, making them perfect for sneaky reading.
- ▪His characters, like Rincewind and Vimes, provided relatable experiences for teenagers navigating their own identities.
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There is a theory, popular among certain very old and very tired philosophers, that all memories take up a kind of furniture in the head. The good ones are armchairs. The painful ones are filing cabinets, usually full. And then there are the memories that are neither: the ones that arrive uninvited, settle in, and start terrorising the other occupants by kicking over the chairs. Sir Terry Pratchett, who knew more about furniture than most, put it this way: Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture. I was sixteen when I first read that sentence.
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