[b]Terry Pratchett
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that’s a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events – the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there – that must also be a miracle. Just because it’s not nice doesn’t mean it’s not miraculous.[/b]
Why do assholes always have to spoil things like this?
Right?
I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers…this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.
I’ll bet they have big tits too.
The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.
But we do have the right to point them out. Or at least I do.
Anyway, if you stop tellin’ people it’s all sorted out after they’re dead, they might try sorting it all out while they’re alive.
They’ll do that anyway.
Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility.
And, of course, vice versa.
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away…
Right, like your still around to note them.