In the Ramtop village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.
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Posted May 7, 2022, 5:45 PM UTC
Am giving you my free award (sorry I can't afford a real one!) as you don't know how perfect the timing of your post is. My dad passed away recently, and I wanted to use a few Pterry quotes in my eulogy for him, was going to post in this group to ask if anyone had the exact wording for this part, but now don't need to. Thank you!
Hope the funeral went/goes well!
It's my dad's anniversary in a few days, so I can relate. It was his love of Terry Pratchett that got me into reading.
May the waves of grief not drown you. They get less hefty and more irregular, and eventually thinking of him will settle into a nice summer's day at the beach and a warm swish of memories foaming around your ankles. Keep your head up and blow your nose when necessary until then.
I'd send you good vibes, thoughts and prayers, but I don't know your address.
Thank you so much for this - your words have helped me a lot too.
I am so sorry for your loss.
I am sorry for your loss, and for the upheaval every family faces at such a time.
This is such a wonderful paragraph.
GNU STP
GNU Sir Pterry.
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GNU for the glorious 25th May. Truth, Justice, Freedom, reasonably priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg!
GNU Sir Terry
I heard a lot of good about Discworld and Terry Pratchett so I decided to look at this book and maybe resources for newbies who don't know where to begin
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What did I just read? Is that Terry Pratchett/Linux, or as I have recently taken to call it Terry Pratchett + Linux? What does GNU mean here?
The clacks resemble telegraphs. Inserted into the header of a message:
G: send the message on
N: do not log the message
U: turn the message around at the end of the line and send it back again
By putting GNU and the person's name into the clacks, the name travels along forever, or as long as the clacks are passing messages. One of the lines of the book says "A man is not dead while his name is still spoken."
GNU is part of the book Going Postal. Without spoiling anything it pretty much just means "keep his name going, never forget".
So if you see anyone around here saying GNU interpret it as RIP until you read Going Postal :) hope that makes sense for you.
(And no doubt Terry Pratchett made it GNU as a reference to Linux, just to confuse people)
What’s it in Linux? (I swear I once knew this...)
GNU in open source, stands for "GNU is Not Unix" if I remember correctly. GNU was a collaboration of free software alternatives to Unix OS family. One thing the project struggled with was a usable kernel, until Linus Trovalds created Linux. GNU purists will insist that the correct name for the operating system is GNU/Linux, because Linux is just the name for the kernel.
GNU Terry Pratchett. He was an amazing man, and we all miss him, but he will never be fully gone.
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Looking at the list of pages that have the X-Clacks-Overhead makes me tear up.
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huh I opened a bunch, all of which last checked today or yesterday and saw it nowhere
They're HTTP headers, not just text on sites.
On desktop browsers you can find them under the networking tab (after refreshing) in the developer tools menu (inspect element).
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That's the only immortality there really is.