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Wyrd Sisters

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1980
2023
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No chapters
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1787
Copyright © 1980 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett 1988
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The wind howled.
May contain spoilers
And, as the new day wound across the landscape, each one busy with her own thoughts, each one a witch alone, they went home.*
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Added: 14-Jun-2015
Last Updated: 03-Feb-2024

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Verence wasn't frightened, however; not simply because it is difficult to be in fear of anything when the bits you need to be frightened with are curdling several yards away, but because he had never really been frightened of anything in his life, and wasn't going to start now.  This was partly because he didn't have the imagination, but he was also one of those rare individuals who are totally focused in time.

Most people aren't.  They live their lives as a sort of temporal blur around the point where their body actually is - anticipating the future, or holding onto the past.  They're usually so busy thinking about what happens next that the only time they ever find out what is happening now is when they come to look back on it.  Most people are like this.  They learn how to fear because they can actually tell, down at the subconscious level, what is going to happen next.  It's already happening to them.
Only in our dreams are we free.  The rest of the time we need wages.
Destiny was funny stuff, he knew.  You couldn't trust it.  Often you couldn't even see it.  Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else - coincidence, maybe, or providence.  You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you.  Then just when you thought you had it nailed down it walked away with the hammer.
Granny subsided into unaccustomed, troubled silence, and tried to listen to the prologue.  The theater worried her.  It had a magic of its own, one that didn't belong to her, one that wasn't in her control.  It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were.  And it was worse than that.  It was magic that didn't belong to magical people.  It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn't know the rules.  They altered the world because it sounded better.
Granny Weatherwax was often angry.  She considered it one of her strong points.  Genuine anger was one of the world's great creative forces.  But you had to learn how to control it.  That didn't mean you let it trickle away.  It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.
There was something here, he thought, that nearly belonged to the gods.  Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflects the landscape.  And yet... and yet.

Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth.  Death was intrigued.  They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreampt up took them further in.  He was fascinated.

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 30-Apr-2013
HarperCollins
Paperback B
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Date Issued:
Cir 30-Apr-2013
Format:
Paperback B
Cover Price:
$9.99
Pages*:
360
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   27 Nov 2023 - 13 Dec 2023
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Internal ID:
12749
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-062-22573-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-062-22573-3
Printing:
6
Country:
United States
Language:
English
"THINK J.R.R. TOLKIEN WITH
A SHARPER, MORE SATIRIC EDGE."
Houston Chronicle


Meet Granny Weatherwax, the most highly regarded non-leader a coven of non-social witches could ever have.  Generally, these loners don't get involved in anything, much less royal intrigue.  But then there are those times they can't help it.  As Granny Weatherwax is about to discover, though, it's a lot harder to stir up trouble in the castle than some theatrical types would have you think.  Even when you've got a few unexpected spells up your sleeve.

"Humorously entertaining... subtly thought-provoking."
Chicago Tribune

"Unadulterated fun... witty, frequently hilarious."
San Francisco Chronicle
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First Harper premium edition: May 2013
First HarperTorch mass market printing: February 2001
Sixth printing based on the number line.

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Author(s)

Terry Pratchett  
Birth: 28 Apr 1948 Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Death: 12 Mar 2015 Broadchalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK

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