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" I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. "

Terry Pratchett

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" I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' "

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