Losses and reflections
Reading changes us, and some of those changes only become apparent after years, and only after some reflection.
So how did Sir Terry and the Discworld change me?
I learned that humour need not be cruel - indeed, that the best of all humour isn't cruel at all - through my reading.
And I learned it rather later in life than I should have.
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So how did Sir Terry and the Discworld change me?
I learned that humour need not be cruel - indeed, that the best of all humour isn't cruel at all - through my reading.
And I learned it rather later in life than I should have.
This is a copy of my post here, on Dreamwidth, which has
comments. OpenID will allow you to comment there from your LiveJournal session: contact me if you have problems.