***And this was true. Nature can adapt to practically anything. There were were fish evolved to live in the river. They looked like a cross between a soft-shelled crab and an industrial vacuum cleaner, and tended to explode in fresh water, and what you had to use for bait was nobody's business, but they were fish evolved to live in the river. They looked like a cross between a soft-shelled crab and an industrial vacuum cleaner, and tended to explode in fresh water, and what you had to use for bait was nobody's business, but they were fish fish and a sportsman like Ridcully never cared about what the quarry tasted like. and a sportsman like Ridcully never cared about what the quarry tasted like.

*The Senior Wrangler had a theory that long long food-beans, celery, and rhubarb-made you taller, because of the famous Doctrine of Signatures. It certainly made him lighter. food-beans, celery, and rhubarb-made you taller, because of the famous Doctrine of Signatures. It certainly made him lighter.

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

*It wasn't the taste. Plenty of hot dogs taste bad. But Dibbler had now actually managed to produce sausages that didn't taste of anything. It was weird. No matter how much mustard, ketchup, and pickle people put on them, they still didn't taste of anything anything. Not even the midnight dogs they sell to drunks in Helsinki can quite manage that.

*Troll beer is ammonium sulfide dissolved in alcohol and tastes like drinking fermented batteries.

*Not with very good results, however. Stibbons spent weeks grinding lenses and blowing glassware and had finally produced a device which showed the tremendous number of tiny animals there were in one drop of water from the river Ankh.

The Archchancellor had taken a look and then remarked that anything in which that much life could exist had had to be healthy. to be healthy.

*All right-all dwarf songs. Except the one about Hiho. dwarf songs. Except the one about Hiho.

*Troll gambling is even simpler than Australian gambling. One of the most popular games is One Up, which consists of throwing a coin in the air and betting on whether it will come down again.

*Rats had featured largely in the history of Ankh-Morpork. Shortly before the Patrician came to power there was a terrible plague of rats. The city council countered it by offering twenty pence for every rat tail. This did, for a week or two, reduce the number of rats-and then people were suddenly queing up with tails, the city treasury was being drained, and no one seemed to be doing much work. And there still still seemed to be a lot of rats around. Lord Vetinari had listened carefully while the problem was explained, and had solved the thing with one memorable phrase which said a lot about him, about the folly of bounty offers, and about the natural instinct of Ankh-Morporkians in any situation involving money: "Tax the rat farms." seemed to be a lot of rats around. Lord Vetinari had listened carefully while the problem was explained, and had solved the thing with one memorable phrase which said a lot about him, about the folly of bounty offers, and about the natural instinct of Ankh-Morporkians in any situation involving money: "Tax the rat farms."

*From the Old wys-ars wys-ars, lit: one who, at bottom, is very smart.

*Or, at least, onto the river.

*A very grammatical grammatical half an hour, however. half an hour, however.

*Old shoes always turn up in the bottom of every wardrobe. If a mermaid mermaid had a wardrobe, old shoes would turn up in the bottom of it. had a wardrobe, old shoes would turn up in the bottom of it.

*Although, strictly speaking, humans feel it all the time.

*'PLUGGERS They've Got Soles FEEL THE NALES!.

*He'd still got the nugget somewhere.

About the Author.

Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular living authors in the world. His first story was published when he was thirteen, and his first full-length book when he was twenty. He worked as a journalist to support the writing habit, but gave up the day job when the success of his books meant that it was costing him money to go to work. is one of the most popular living authors in the world. His first story was published when he was thirteen, and his first full-length book when he was twenty. He worked as a journalist to support the writing habit, but gave up the day job when the success of his books meant that it was costing him money to go to work.

Pratchett's acclaimed novels are bestsellers in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and have sold more than thirty million copies worldwide. He lives in England, where he writes all the time. (It's his hobby, as well.) Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins author.

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Acclaim for Bestselling Author Terry Pratchett "Superb popular entertainment."

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Elizabeth Peters "Truly original...Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than Oz...Brilliant."

A.S. Byatt "The funniest parodist working in the field today, period."

New York Review of Science Fiction "As always he is head and shoulders above the best of the rest. He is screamingly funny. He is wise. He has style."

Daily Telegraph (London) (London) "Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse and witty as Waugh."

Independent (London) (London) "Terry Pratchett does for fantasy what Douglas Adams did for science fiction."

Today (Great Britain) (Great Britain) "Terry Pratchett is more than a magician. He is the kindest, most fascinating teacher you ever had."

Harlan Ellison "It is his unexpected insights into human morality that make the Discworld series stand out."

Times Literary Supplement (London) (London) "If Terry Pratchett is not yet an institution, he should be."

Fantasy and Science Fiction "Simply the best humorous writer of the twentieth century."

Oxford Times "Consistently, inventively mad...wild and wonderful!"

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine "Pratchett demonstrates just how great the distance is between one-or two-joke writers and the comic masters whose work will be read into the next century."

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BOOKS BY T TERRY P PRATCHETT.

The Carpet People The Dark Side of the Sun Strata * Truckers Diggers * Wings Only You Can Save Mankind Johnny and the Dead * Johnny and the Bomb The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Jollife) (with Gray Jollife) Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman) (with Neil Gaiman) THE D DISCWORLD S SERIES:.

Going Postal * Monstrous Regiment * Night Watch The Last Hero * The Truth * Thief of Time The Fifth Elephant * Carpe Jugulum The Last Continent * Jingo Hogfather * Feet of Clay * Maskerade Interesting Times * Soul Music * Men at Arms Lords and Ladies * Small Gods Witches Abroad * Reaper Man Moving Pictures * Eric (with Josh Kirby) (with Josh Kirby) Guards! Guards! * Pyramids Wyrd Sisters * Sourcery * Mort * Equal Rites The Light Fantastic * The Color of Magic

Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (with Graham Higgins) (with Graham Higgins) The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stephen Briggs) (with Stephen Briggs) The Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs) (with Stephen Briggs) The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs) (with Stephen Briggs) The Pratchett Portfolio (with Paul Kidby) (with Paul Kidby)