RIP Terry Pratchett

[Spark]

Another one of the best gone. /sigh

 

I never met the man, but I'm going to miss him terribly.

 

According to the letter put out by his agent, Sir Terry passed quietly at home, in his bed, surrounded by his family and cat. He was 66.

 

I'm gonna go lift a glass.

[Erick the Red]

From a reddit thread:

 

A poem by /u/Poem_for_your_sprog

The sun goes down upon the Ankh,
And slowly, softly fades -
Across the Drum; the Royal Bank;
The River-Gate; the Shades.

 

A stony circle's closed to elves;
And here, where lines are blurred,
Between the stacks of books on shelves,
A quiet 'Ook' is heard.

 

A copper steps the city-street
On paths he's often passed;
The final march; the final beat;
The time to rest at last.

 

He gives his badge a final shine,
And sadly shakes his head -
While Granny lies beneath a sign
That says: 'I aten't dead.'

 

The Luggage shifts in sleep and dreams;
It's now. The time's at hand.
For where it's always night, it seems,
A timer clears of sand.

 

And so it is that Death arrives,
When all the time has gone...
But dreams endure, and hope survives,
And Discworld carries on.

[Spark]

I straight started weeping and then laughing when I got to the part about Granny. That's amazing.

[Darkwoman]

 

This is what got me; I cried, then I had to smile a little, just imagining what kinds of conversations would go on between those two. 

[hoxton]

He will be sorely missed.

[AmyUncharted]

God this is depressing I just started reading through his books too. Such a sad day.

[HanShotFirst]

I literally shed a single tear over the tweets.

 

I remember reading Truckers et al in primary school, and getting stuck into the Colour of Magic when I was 12.