Terry Pratchett... Is a god
Just in case you were wondering. Anybody (and I mean *anybody*) out there who hasn't heard of, or hasn't read any Terry P... Go. Now. I mean right now. Yes now. I know it's the middle of the night, but I'm sure there's a bookshop open somewhere.
Unseen Academicals was possibly (and I say possibly, because Guards Guards, Night Watch, Thief of Time and Making Money were...) my favourite book in the series yet.
Paraphrased for succinctness:
Nutt looked doubtfully at a long, very long scarf in pink and green and a large yellow woolly hat with a pink bobble on it.
"Isn't football a rough man's game? Whereas pink, if you will excuse me, is rather a... female colour?"
"Yeah, that's right. Think about it."
"Ah, I think I have it. The pink proclaims an almost belligerent masculinity, saying as it does: I am so masculine I can afford to tempt you to question it, giving me the opportunity to proclaim it anew by doing violence to you in response."
This book also features Pepe, who made me think of Merry Gentry's Jacques but... more real somehow - brought up somewhere entirely different to what his behaviour suggests and flamboyant only when being watched. (raging alcoholic, incidentally).
"I thought you were just someone who made clothes," said Trev.
"Just. Someone. Who. Made. Clothes. Just someone!? I am not anyone. I am Pepe and I don't make clothes. I create gorgeous works of art that just happen to require a body to show them off as they should be seen. Tailors and dressmakers make clothes. I forge history!"
Also... the 63 year old Pratchett, pointing out that he can use pop culture better than most 30 year olds...
"What's Satblatt?"
"Oh, the dwarf newspaper. You'll probably never see it."
Hipster reference... underground...? Or am I imagining this?
Unseen Academicals was possibly (and I say possibly, because Guards Guards, Night Watch, Thief of Time and Making Money were...) my favourite book in the series yet.
Paraphrased for succinctness:
Nutt looked doubtfully at a long, very long scarf in pink and green and a large yellow woolly hat with a pink bobble on it.
"Isn't football a rough man's game? Whereas pink, if you will excuse me, is rather a... female colour?"
"Yeah, that's right. Think about it."
"Ah, I think I have it. The pink proclaims an almost belligerent masculinity, saying as it does: I am so masculine I can afford to tempt you to question it, giving me the opportunity to proclaim it anew by doing violence to you in response."
This book also features Pepe, who made me think of Merry Gentry's Jacques but... more real somehow - brought up somewhere entirely different to what his behaviour suggests and flamboyant only when being watched. (raging alcoholic, incidentally).
"I thought you were just someone who made clothes," said Trev.
"Just. Someone. Who. Made. Clothes. Just someone!? I am not anyone. I am Pepe and I don't make clothes. I create gorgeous works of art that just happen to require a body to show them off as they should be seen. Tailors and dressmakers make clothes. I forge history!"
Also... the 63 year old Pratchett, pointing out that he can use pop culture better than most 30 year olds...
"What's Satblatt?"
"Oh, the dwarf newspaper. You'll probably never see it."
Hipster reference... underground...? Or am I imagining this?