To: Alex MG who wrote (397169 ) 1/25/2019 8:35:25 PM From: Sun Tzu Read Replies (1) | Respond to He was a British writer. Very witty...and IMO better than Douglas Adams (whom he is often compared to). He eventually got big enough to be knighted by the Queen. Sadly he died prematurely of Alzheimer.The Great Turtle [ A'Tuin] was a mere hypothesis until the day the small and secretive kingdom of Krull, whose rim-most mountains project out over the Rimfall, built a gantry and pulley arrangement at the tip of the most precipitous crag and lowered several observers over the Edge in a quartz-windowed brass vessel to peer through the mist veils. An alternative, favoured by those of a religious persuasion, was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis." The Colour of Magic “Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.”
