And the worst part is, there are still things left unanswered. WHY was Mrs Earwig unaffected by the elves? Geoffery was such a great new character, and we're never going to see him again. What will happen with baby Tiffany?
YES! I want to know why Letice Earwig wasn't affected by elven glamour. And about calm-weaving, the magic that Geoffrey does. What the hell is Mephistopheles the goat? What's going to happen to Maggie Anybody, one of the few girls of the Feegle race and thus destined for keldahood, marriage and hundreds of babies, but who would much rather be a warrior? Why do railways have such tremendous power over elves? Did Esme Weatherwax eventually become a goddess in Lancre? (I can see it happening, just as I can see something similar eventually happening to Sam Vimes, much to his everlasting disgruntlement, as per Lunik's story, Mister Vimes'd Go Spare!)
And for Great A'Tuin's sake, will SOMEONE get Tiffany Robinson out of her parents' house and into the care of someone who will love her?
I still feel like i'm grieving for an actual friend, not just an author I happened to like. Even now, just looking at the book is enough to make tears want to spring into my eyes.
I don't think that you're alone there. Almost every review I've seen--hell, one I wrote myself--speaks of this book as a goodbye. It does make you cry. But it also says that it's all right to grieve, to feel unsettled and unsure how to cope, to be uncertain, and to look for help if you need it, and that while change is inevitable, you can do your best to ride the wave of change instead of building a wall in its path. And it let the Discworld go ever, ever on. (I've seen too many authors destroy their worlds, accidentally or on purpose, in the finale, so this matters a lot to me.) It really does feel as if he was saying a very deliberate and comforting goodbye to us. It's just that right now...it hurts
Also--speaking of the old friend factor--I think it says something that six months after the man's death, "GNU Terry Pratchett" is still circulating--because a man's not dead while his name is spoken. It's in web code, signatures, hashtags, even reviews. And why not? What could be more natural than to want an old friend remembered?
All of which is a very long way of saying...yeah. I know how you feel.
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on 2015-09-03 03:18 pm (UTC)YES! I want to know why Letice Earwig wasn't affected by elven glamour. And about calm-weaving, the magic that Geoffrey does. What the hell is Mephistopheles the goat? What's going to happen to Maggie Anybody, one of the few girls of the Feegle race and thus destined for keldahood, marriage and hundreds of babies, but who would much rather be a warrior? Why do railways have such tremendous power over elves? Did Esme Weatherwax eventually become a goddess in Lancre? (I can see it happening, just as I can see something similar eventually happening to Sam Vimes, much to his everlasting disgruntlement, as per Lunik's story, Mister Vimes'd Go Spare!)
And for Great A'Tuin's sake, will SOMEONE get Tiffany Robinson out of her parents' house and into the care of someone who will love her?
I still feel like i'm grieving for an actual friend, not just an author I happened to like. Even now, just looking at the book is enough to make tears want to spring into my eyes.
I don't think that you're alone there. Almost every review I've seen--hell, one I wrote myself--speaks of this book as a goodbye. It does make you cry. But it also says that it's all right to grieve, to feel unsettled and unsure how to cope, to be uncertain, and to look for help if you need it, and that while change is inevitable, you can do your best to ride the wave of change instead of building a wall in its path. And it let the Discworld go ever, ever on. (I've seen too many authors destroy their worlds, accidentally or on purpose, in the finale, so this matters a lot to me.) It really does feel as if he was saying a very deliberate and comforting goodbye to us. It's just that right now...it hurts
Also--speaking of the old friend factor--I think it says something that six months after the man's death, "GNU Terry Pratchett" is still circulating--because a man's not dead while his name is spoken. It's in web code, signatures, hashtags, even reviews. And why not? What could be more natural than to want an old friend remembered?
All of which is a very long way of saying...yeah. I know how you feel.