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rincewind.run • 138 days ago

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

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Oh wow, I remember this line! I was reading Mort right around the time I read Charlie Pierce's The Cynic and President Obama and I remember being struck by how close these two got to one another. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a16259/cynic-president-obama-1112/

kathmarval.bsky.social•137 days ago

📌

antifaspyro.bsky.social•137 days ago

Funny considering that by the time Small Gods is published, it is possible to change history!

fionaswriting.bsky.social•138 days ago

God I miss him.

cmteague.bsky.social•138 days ago

A good one, especially for this moment.

dangerouscorner.bsky.social•138 days ago

That section makes me think of Vanessa Kisuule's brilliant poem, _Hollow_. 'History is sneaky mistress, moves like smoke'

maestraoogway.bsky.social•138 days ago

📌

leenakassak.bsky.social•138 days ago

Esme Weatherwax is my all time favorite fictional character.

leenakassak.bsky.social•138 days ago

Death and the Witches are my favorite 🖤

rincewind.run•138 days ago

lotta folks right now who think that this time will be different, that they’ll succeed where every other monster in history has failed

I’m betting on history

oggie.bsky.social•138 days ago

I also like the implied familiarity with Macbeth in the phrasing on this one ( he really did seem to love that play)

felixorx.bsky.social•138 days ago

You’re kindling some hope in me.

dalstrus.bsky.social•138 days ago

I'm just trying to keep everyone I love alive so we can all witness the inevitable thrilling conclusion of "authoritarian government run by delusional sociopaths and cynics"

david.uncensored.zip•138 days ago

You might be a king or a little street sweeper
but sooner or later you dancer with the reaper.

agrajagbop.bsky.social•138 days ago

And if we're really in the shit, I know a good Sweeper who will put history back on it's proper course.

mmorgenschoen.bsky.social•138 days ago

but the price other people pay before the monsters fail is usually immense

paulbeard.org•138 days ago

they will lose, and what gets (re)built in afterwards will be better, stronger. How long is anyone's guess.

(The irony that what the vandals destroyed will lead to something worse (to them) than what they attacked…)

swizzlebeef.com•138 days ago

I am very happy that I am introducing my 10yo to The Disc via Mort (and he's loving it) although my insistence on READING DEATH'S LINES APPROPRIATELY IS ABSOLUTE MURDER ON MY THROAT.

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