Discovering the truth is like touching your testicles.

[rah]

Wow, I'm impressed, even after dalgetti's feeble attempt, someone managed to answer the question and save the thread for a few more minutes.

hmmm, that's not a sanctioned smile.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by VetLegion
whoever didnt read it (yes you paiktis) what are you waiting for! one of the best books I EVER read.

noted

[VetLegion]

and thanks to our generous new mod for letting me recommend this book, I really wanted to.

[Kassiopeia]

I don't get it. That means, well at least to me, that discovering the truth is usually pleasant. Or did he have some strange disease in his repro-organs producing agony whenever he touched them?

And was Reich some sort of philosopher to be spewing out such, hmmm, interesting quotes?

[Andrew1999]

The unwritten motto of the Quisition (also used by Vetinari): When you have their full attention in your grasp, their hearts and minds will follow.

[Immortal Wombat]

Hell, recommed the whole DiscWorld series. They're all brilliant

[rah]

rah accepts blatant suckup

But I didn't save the thread, the educated posters at Apolyton did. Let's keep it that way

[Az]

Wow, I'm impressed, even after dalgetti's feeble attempt, someone managed to answer the question and save the thread for a few more minutes.

hey!

I don't care , really.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Andrew1999
The unwritten motto of the Quisition (also used by Vetinari): When you have their full attention in your grasp, their hearts and minds will follow.

Ooh, translated from the "old language" of the DiscWorld, which happens to have the same words, yet subtley different meanings to Latin.

[Bereta_Eder]

well it still fits because if someone has grasped your testicles he usually has your undivided attention. what?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Imran and IW demonstrate their knowledge in good literature

Eh... I wouldn't totally deem it 'good literature'. An amusing yarn, yes, but I've read better .

[Bereta_Eder]

so what's this book about?

DiscWorld series and Pretchell... smells AD&D fiction to me

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Reich was fascinating. I have an orgone accumulator in my bedroom.

[VetLegion]

The world spun under Om as the eagle sought for shellcracking height, and his mind was besieged by the tortoise's existential dread of being off the ground. And Brutha's thoughts, bright and clear this close to death . . .
I'm on my back and getting hotter and I'm going to die . . .
Careful, careful. Concentrate, concentrate. It'll let go any second . . .
Om stuck out his long scrawny neck, stared at the body just above him, picked what he hoped was about the right spot, plunged his beak through the brown feathers between the talons, and gripped.
The eagle blinked. No tortoise had ever done that to an eagle, anywhere else in history.
Om's thoughts arrived in the little silvery world of its mind:
"We don't want to hurt one another, now do we?"
The eagle blinked again.
Eagles have never evolved much imagination or forethought, beyond that necessary to know that a turtle smashes when you drop it on the rocks. But it was forming a mental picture of what happened when you let go of a heavy tortoise that was still intimately gripping an essential bit of you.
Its eyes watered.

this is the incriminated passage. in my opinion, on of the best single moments in world literature

[Kassiopeia]

Whut? You're talking about Discworld and Pratchett? Let's see, I've read the Fifth Elephant and Thief of Time. They are, hmmm, absurd and funny.