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in_the_blue) wrote2007-10-01 11:19 pm
in_the_blue) wrote2007-10-01 11:19 pm
So, what else could it be but a horrible alien? What?!?
Fiction is a thing of beauty. Hannah and I are reading Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad and if you've read Pratchett you know he's keen on footnotes. Early on in the book, he's got this footnote and you don't even need context for it. It had the both of us laughing out loud, so I'm sharing it with you:
*Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy seraph of Al-Ybi was once cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later the spell wore off. These days, the people of Al-Ybi are renowned for being unusually short and bad-tempered.
The moral of the story? Go write. I did. And tomorrow (Tuesday) I'll be going through and reading what's there so far and making my comments.
*Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy seraph of Al-Ybi was once cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later the spell wore off. These days, the people of Al-Ybi are renowned for being unusually short and bad-tempered.
The moral of the story? Go write. I did. And tomorrow (Tuesday) I'll be going through and reading what's there so far and making my comments.
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