Title: Guards! Guards!
Author(s): Terry Pratchett
Release year: 1989
Publisher: Gollancz
Why in Database: Another book from Discworld, the first in a series about the City Guard. This book is definitely less turtle. The first reference to turtles appears in one of the footnotes:
A figgin is defined in the Dictionary of Bye-Watering Words as ‘a small short-crust pasty containing raisins’. The Dictionary would have been invaluable for the Supreme Grand Master when he thought up the Society’s oaths, since it also includes welchet Ca type of waistcoat worn by certain clock-makers’), gaskin Ca shy, grey-brown bird of the coot family’), and moules (‘a game of skill and dexterity, involving tortoises’).
The next two are standard, about A’Tuin. The first is about his journey, the second is a description of the disc itself (not like usually, at the beginning, but this time, at the very end of the book):
It was the “eventually” that was the problem. Eventually Great A ’Tuin would reach the end of the universe. Eventually the stars would go out. Eventually Nobby might have a bath, although that would probably involve a radical re-thinking of the nature of Time.
Let the eye of attention pull back…
This is the Disc, world and mirror of worlds, borne through space on the back of four giant elephants who stand on the back of Great A ’Tuin the Sky Turtle. Around the Rim of this world the ocean pours off endlessly into the night. At its Hub rises the ten-mile spike of the Cori Celesti, on whose glittering summit the gods play games with the fates of men…
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