There are many reasons why I love Terry Pratchett!
Some religions say that the universe was started with a word, a song, a dance, a piece of music. The Listening Monks of the Ramtops have trained their hearing until they can tell the value of a playing card by listening to it, and have made it their task to listen intently to the subtle sounds of the universe to piece together, from the fossil echoes, the very first sounds.
There was certainly, they say, a very strange noise at the beginning of everything.
But the keenest ears (the ones who win most at poker), who listen to the frozen echoes in ammonites and amber, swear they can detect some tiny sounds before that.
It sounded, they say, like something counting: One, Two, Three, Four.
The very best one, who listened to basalt, said he thought he could make out, very faintly, some numbers that came earlier.
When they asked him what it was, he said: 'It sounds like One, Two.'
No-one ever asked what, if there was a sound that called the universe into being, happened to it afterwards. It's mythology. You're not supposed to ask that kind of question.
from
Soul Music
Terry Pratchett
I'm currently re-reading Soul Music, and I absolutely love the allusions to Rock'n-, sorry, Music With Rocks In. Am in love all over again. Hehe. ♥
And omg, favorite quote ever:
Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha!
BEWARE!!!!!
Yrs sincerely
The Opera Ghost
"What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man."
from
Maskerade
Terry Pratchett
Because we all know that !!!!! = sign of insanity