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Heinz Skunk

heinzskunk@tomes.tchncs.de

Joined 3 years, 1 month ago

Mostly reading SciFi and Fantasy.

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33% complete! Heinz Skunk has read 10 of 30 books.

quoted Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, part 10)

Terry Pratchett: Moving Pictures (Paperback, 1991, Corgi) No rating

A zany bunch of futuristic actors--Victor, the eternal student; Ginger, the milkmaid; Dibbler, the sausage …

It contained forbidden knowledge. Well, not actually forbidden. No-one had ever gone so far as forbidding it. Apart from anything else, in order to forbid it you'd have to know what it was, which was forbidden.

Moving Pictures by  (Discworld, part 10) (Page 174)

quoted Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, part 10)

Terry Pratchett: Moving Pictures (Paperback, 1991, Corgi) No rating

A zany bunch of futuristic actors--Victor, the eternal student; Ginger, the milkmaid; Dibbler, the sausage …

"Evening, lad. Want to get a nice hot sausage down you?" Victor eyed the glistening tubes in the tray around Dibbler's neck. They smelled appetizing. They always did. And then you bit into them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.

Moving Pictures by  (Discworld, part 10) (Page 42)

Das Konzept Wurst auf den Punkt gebracht.

quoted Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, part 10)

Terry Pratchett: Moving Pictures (Paperback, 1991, Corgi) No rating

A zany bunch of futuristic actors--Victor, the eternal student; Ginger, the milkmaid; Dibbler, the sausage …

The Alchemists' Guildhall was new. It was always new. It had been explosively demolished and rebuilt four times in the last two years, on the last occasion without a lecture and demonstration room in the hope that this might be a helpful move.

Moving Pictures by  (Discworld, part 10) (Page 21)

quoted Eric by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, Book 9)

Terry Pratchett: Eric (Paperback, 2000, Millennium)

Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest …

“I want to be a eunuch, sir,” Eric added. Rincewind's head turned as though it was being dragged. “Why?” he said, and then came up with the obvious answer at the same time as Eric: “Because you get to work in a harem all day long,” they chorused slowly.

Eric by  (Discworld, Book 9) (Page 86)

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