‘When you start believing in Spirits, you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are, you’re believing in Gods. And then you’re in trouble.’
Reality is all very well in small doses. It’s a perfectly conventional...
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‘What’s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work’s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the stone in the first place.’
Fate is a word that springs to...
‘People have been messing around with time ever since there were people. Wasting it, killing it, sparing it, making it up. People’s heads were made to play with time.’
But time isn’t a toy to be played with. It’s bigger than all of us....
Автор: Пратчетт Теренс Дэвид Джон , Кидби Пол
Серия: Discworld #27
Язык: английский
Год: 2001
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