Terry Pratchett is dead

[Brollyanna]

Only 66 years old. This makes me sad.

 

[Brollyanna]

Embuggerance, as he would have said.

 

[dolf]

I just saw it on fb. dementia is a shitter

 

[yossi]

Well, fuck.

http://i.imgur.com/OgZiymz.gif

This is upsetting.

 

[dolf]

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/vsbattles/images/0/09/SQUEAK.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20141029161154
should have been a bigger hourglass.

 

[DesEsseintes]

That IS shit. No age at all, nowadays, and what an evil disease it is, to take people long before they are ready. And to take them long before they die.

RIP, Mr Pratchett. Perhaps he will finally learn the sex of the great turtle.

 

[Balladeer08]

Only 66 years old. This makes me sad.

Agreed.

Embuggerance, cubed.

 

[cowslinger64]

I just saw it on fb. dementia is a shitter

That IS shit. No age at all, nowadays, and what an evil disease it is, to take people long before they are ready. And to take them long before they die.

RIP, Mr Pratchett. Perhaps he will finally learn the sex of the great turtle.

I wouldn't wish alzheimers or dementia on my worst enemy and their family.

RIP

 

[Brollyanna]

http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-i-meant-said-ipslore-bitterly-what-is-there-in-this-world-that-truly-makes-living-worthwhile-terry-pratchett-285687.jpg

He died surrounded by his family. And his cats.

 

[islandman]

Thank you for the laughs.

 

[gravyrug]

Thank you for the laughs.

And the random thinky bits. Sir Terry was the best for writing passages that had me laughing till I hurt, and then, when I'd calmed down a bit, going, "Huh, never thought of it that way."

 

[islandman]

And the random thinky bits. Sir Terry was the best for writing passages that had me laughing till I hurt, and then, when I'd calmed down a bit, going, "Huh, never thought of it that way."

In that vein, I swore, upon my first reading of Flatland, that Prachett was its author.

Clearly not given that it was written nearly 60 years before Prachett's birth, but it could have easily been so.

 

[eyer]

Terry Pratchett is dead

As a champion of assisted suicide and abortion...

...I imagine death was more than happy to greet one of its dearest allies.

 

[MsFilippovna]

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

RIP

 

[Brollyanna]

For Pratchett nerds.
http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html

 

[domroger]

A very sad loss to the world of fantasy books .

 

[ForkedTongue]

As a champion of assisted suicide and abortion...

...I imagine death was more than happy to greet one of its dearest allies.

He's sure to receive a better welcome into the afterlife than you.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

I treasure what was given.

(Not everyone is fortunate, when the genetic dice are thrown.)

R.I.P.

 

[eyer]

He's sure to receive a better welcome into the afterlife than you.

Really?

What is this "afterlife" you speak of as if you know it so intimately?

 

[Berries_n_cream]

Such a clever and funny writer. His voice will be missed.

 

[Sean]

Utterly shitty news.



https://scontent-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/11057850_965577453454484_1772312344596259032_n.jpg?oh=bc08bf003753b644fc3f78a5304250bd&oe=55B5FF5A

 

[dolf]

the more I think on it, the more i'm glad that it didn't drag out. he didn't want to spend years not knowing who he was.

 

[RedAllan]

One of the funniest and creative writers, it's all been said, Terry now you know the colour of magic.

 

[Sean]

the more I think on it, the more i'm glad that it didn't drag out. he didn't want to spend years not knowing who he was.

Were you listening to PM? It was the lead story. They played quite a bit of Tony Robinson reading TP's Dimbleby Lecture from 2012.

 

[Brollyanna]

the more I think on it, the more i'm glad that it didn't drag out. he didn't want to spend years not knowing who he was.

Yes, some things are just so awful. Richard Glatzer, the guy who wrote and directed "Still Alice" died yesterday from ALS. Just plain shitty.