![]() ![]() The Guild’s members tended to be meticulous people, always in pursuit of an inhuman accuracy, and this took its toll. The clockmakers were well aware that the intricate mechanisms of the human brain could occasionally throw a screw. Informally, the visit was also a delicate way to make sure that the lad was taking his medicine and wasn’t noticeably crazy. In any case there was often some work for him to do, or some results to be collected, because whatever else you might say about him, the boy had a genius for clocks. SOMEONE LIKE YOU.Ī member of the Clockmakers’ Guild called on Jeremy once a week. ‘Poets were always falling in love with moonlight or hyacinths or something, and goddesses were forever-’ ‘Well, that sort of thing used to happen a lot in antiquity, didn’t it?’ said Susan. A PUN, OR PLAY ON WORDS, said Death wearily, ALTHOUGH I SUSPECT YOU WERE MERELY TRYING TO BE TIRESOME. Now she was being childishly perverse, she knew, but life as Death’s granddaughter was not easy, and just occasionally she had the irresistible urge to annoy.ĪH. ‘How very roman tick,’ said Susan, inserting the k. He looked like someone who was being forced to reveal a skeleton in the closet. She lives in a palace of glass, you once said.’ Susan felt a small, shameful and yet curiously satisfying sensation in seeing Death discomfited. ![]() AND YOU HAVE HEARD ME SPEAK OF THE … PERSONIFICATION OF TIME … ER … AND SOME OF US TAKE AN INTEREST WHICH IS, ER, MORE … AND YOU KNOW, THEREFORE, THAT SOME OF US … TAKE AN INTEREST IN HUMANITY. WE PICK UP HUMAN TRAITS … CURIOSITY, ANGER, RESTLESSNESS … EVEN THE VERY BODY SHAPE FORCES UPON OUR MINDS A CERTAIN WAY OF OBSERVING THE UNIVERSE. I MEANT THE OTHERS WHO ARE NOT HUMAN AND YET PART OF HUMANITY’S UNIVERSE - WAR AND DESTINY AND PESTILENCE AND THE REST OF US - WE ARE ENVISAGED AS HUMAN BY HUMANS AND THUS, IN VARIOUS FASHIONS, WE TAKE ON SOME ASPECTS OF HUMANITY. ‘I’m not outside humanity,’ said Susan sharply. SUSAN, YOU WILL KNOW THAT WE WHO ARE … OUTSIDE HUMANITY. Susan did an unusual thing, and listened. WHY LOOK SURPRISED? IS IT NOT WELL KNOWN THAT GODS DO THIS SORT OF THING ALL THE TIME? THE TRUTH IS, I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE TO INVOLVE MYSELF LIKE THAT. * * * - Thief of Time (Terry Pratchett) | Read books online free without registration and downloading Terry Pratchett « Thief of Time» Subject: Comic Fantasy/Science-fiction * * * ![]()
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