Goodbye, Sir PTerry
Mar. 12th, 2015 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzSir Terry Pratchett died today, age 66. Another great mind of the past generations passed away.
I am glad to read he died surrounded by family with a cat sleeping on his bed, which urges me to say Death was always fond of cats.
I was introduced to his works by a book I got when I left my final student job, but only got into the work of Sir Terry because of NoKey. I was very impressed by Sir Terry's many references to modern culture and less modern history and often laughed out loud reading his books. He had a brilliant way of working with words, sometimes turning slang or street language, or even literature into something quite unexpected, as my icon here illustrates.
His last three tweets read:
"AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER."
Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.
The End.
(Read more on the BBC News website)
I am glad to read he died surrounded by family with a cat sleeping on his bed, which urges me to say Death was always fond of cats.
I was introduced to his works by a book I got when I left my final student job, but only got into the work of Sir Terry because of NoKey. I was very impressed by Sir Terry's many references to modern culture and less modern history and often laughed out loud reading his books. He had a brilliant way of working with words, sometimes turning slang or street language, or even literature into something quite unexpected, as my icon here illustrates.
His last three tweets read:
"AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER."
Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.
The End.
(Read more on the BBC News website)
