Georges on why he misses Terry Pratchett.
https://www.mahl.me/blog/the-spell-that-wouldnt-leave/
'There is a kind of reading you only do at fifteen, and only really in places you are not supposed to be reading. The back of a classroom counts. So does the bottom of a sleeping bag, the wrong bus, and the ten minutes between someone announcing dinner and dinner actually arriving. The book has to be small enough to disappear when a teacher looks up. Pocket editions, as their name suggests, were engineered for this. Pratchett’s were small, thin, and printed on a kind of flimsy paper that made it easier to disrespect, and therefore ended up slightly battered.
He wrote books that were the right size for hiding. A whole cosmology, a whole flat world balanced on a turtle, and you could slide it (poorly) inside a maths textbook with a centimetre to spare.'
https://www.mahl.me/blog/the-spell-that-wouldnt-leave/
'There is a kind of reading you only do at fifteen, and only really in places you are not supposed to be reading. The back of a classroom counts. So does the bottom of a sleeping bag, the wrong bus, and the ten minutes between someone announcing dinner and dinner actually arriving. The book has to be small enough to disappear when a teacher looks up. Pocket editions, as their name suggests, were engineered for this. Pratchett’s were small, thin, and printed on a kind of flimsy paper that made it easier to disrespect, and therefore ended up slightly battered.
He wrote books that were the right size for hiding. A whole cosmology, a whole flat world balanced on a turtle, and you could slide it (poorly) inside a maths textbook with a centimetre to spare.'
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