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Aug. 1st, 2003
Word games
Aug. 1st, 2003 10:42 pmI like words, and sentences. Especially well constructed ones. Sentences that play with your head, that make you read them twice, and then smile because they are so well written. Terry Pratchett writes such sentences on a regular basis:
Something began when the Guild of Assassins enrolled Mister Teatime, who saw things differently from other people, and one of the ways that he saw things differently from other people was in seeing other people as things.
(Terry Pratchett, Hogfather)
It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren't the people the people who made up the phrase "people are people everywhere" had traditionally thought of as people.
-- (Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant)
Aren't they just fun? I like them a lot.
Something began when the Guild of Assassins enrolled Mister Teatime, who saw things differently from other people, and one of the ways that he saw things differently from other people was in seeing other people as things.
(Terry Pratchett, Hogfather)
It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren't the people the people who made up the phrase "people are people everywhere" had traditionally thought of as people.
-- (Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant)
Aren't they just fun? I like them a lot.