...would the point of origin be a turtle?

[fignewton]

So, someone submitted a Pratchett quote to the sg1friendathon as a prompt and it got claimed by suzannemarie, and then we were trying to remember the citation for the quote:

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. This is true. It's called Life."

So far, I've found one citation, a bit of dialogue between Rincewind and Death from The Last Continent.

"Is it true that your life passes before your eyes before you die?"

YES.

"Ghastly thought, really." Rincewind shuddered. "Oh, gods, I've just had another one. Suppose I am just about to die, and this is my whole life passing in front of my eyes?"

I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING."

It's not identical to the one used in the prompt, and not quite as I remember reading it myself. It's possible that there's more than one, of course - pTerry refers at least twice to multiple exclamation points as a sign of a diseased mind. :)

There is no real point to this post, although the idea of Teal'c and Vetinari engaging in a battle of  unblinking stares is only slightly less delightfully engaging than the idea of poor Sam's brain imploding at standing on a world that is a disc, supported by four elephants, on the back of a giant turtle, or Daniel arguing in Ook with the librarian. Or Death, for that matter, when his lifetimer gets even more twisty than Rincewind's.

And Granny Weatherwax and Hammond, for some odd reason.

And Angua. I want Janet and Sam and Angua to go down to Biers and get seriously drunk.

And Mitchell must meet Carrot! Carrot can quote laws and ordinances while Mitchell rattles off SG-1 missions!

If a crossover like this was written as slight cracky fic rather than crack!fic? I think it would be delicious.

Comments

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

I've got Good Omens open, but I've not spotted it. My first thought was that it was from the bit in the end of Colour of Magic / beginning of Light Fantastic, where Rincewind falls off the Discworld. But my copies of those are at my dad's.

The Roundworld experiment would blow Sam's mind. Hee.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's from there, because Death is very different in those two books - he hasn't quite developed his personality yet. He's actively trying to kill Rincewind and is hugely frustrated every time he misses.

On the other hand, isn't Twoflower the only person they ever meet with glasses? Would everyone automatically assume that Daniel is from the Agatean Empire?

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

I think Ponder Stibbons is usually pictured with glasses? Although whether that's in the actual text, I don't remember. That may be one of those things - like Death being different - that changes when it doesn't fit any more.

Yeah, I guess that's not a very early Death thing to say. It might not be Death saying it, though - it could just be a footnote. *shrugs*

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

You may be right about Ponder. Hmmm. I just listened to Nigel Planer reading Moving Pictures a few nights ago, which is when Ponder is introduced. I don't remember glasses.

The thing is, though, that we can more or less handwave anything in Color of Magic because the Ocatavo could've changed it when it rearranged the universe to keep Rincewind alive. So Twoflower, for example, went from being insanely skinny to insanely fat from the first book to the next. And anyway, once Twoflower introduced inn-sewer-ants to Ankh-Morpork, it caught on quickly enough. So did dentures, most likely. So why not glasses too? :)