Pterry

No words coming on my novel, so I've picked up one that won't piss me off today.

Here are great quotes found this morning while gliding through 100-odd pages of Soul Music by Terry Pratchett:

"IT'S AN INTERESTING FACT THAT MUSIC, BEING OF IT'S NATURE IMMORTAL, CAN SOMETIMES PROLONG THE LIFE OF THOSE INTIMATELY ASSOCIATED WITH IT, he said. I'VE NOTICED THAT FAMOUS COMPOSERS IN PARTICULAR HANG ON FOR A LONG TIME. DEAF AS POSTS, MOST OF THEM, WHEN I COME CALLING. I EXPECT SOME GOD SOMEWHERE FINDS THAT VERY AMUSING. Death contrived to look disdainful. IT'S THEIR KIND OF JOKE*."

(* And, of course, one that misfires. Deafness doesn't prevent composers hearing the music. It prevents them hearing the distractions.)

- and -

"BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE RATHER STUPID AND WASTE THEIR LIVES. HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THAT? HAVE YOU NOT LOOKED DOWN FROM THE HORSE AT A CITY AND THOUGH HOW MUCH IT RESEMBLED AN ANY HEAP, FULL OF BLIND CREATURES WHO THINK THEIR MUNDANE LITTLE WORLD IS REAL? YOU SEE THE LIGHTED WINDOWS AND WHAT YOU WANT TO THINK IS THAT THERE MUST BE MANY INTERESTING STORIES BEHIND THEM, BUT WHAT YOU KNOW IS THAT REALLY THERE ARE JUST DULL, DULL SOULS, MERE CONSUMERS OF FOOD, WHO THINK THEIR INSTINCTS ARE EMOTIONS AND THEIR TINY LOVES OF MORE ACCOUNT THAN A WHISPER OF WIND."

Both quotes are from Death himself, speaking to his Granddaughter.

I've always loved this book.