Moving Pictures

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Author(s): Terry Pratchett
Release year: 1990
Publisher: Victor Gollancz / Corgi

Why in Database: Another book with some small turtle mentions, first two are about A’Tuin and third one is more neutral-comparative. First, the standard description of the Discworld with mentioning of A’Tuin:

And against the wash of stars a nebula hangs, vast and black, one red giant gleaming like the madness of gods…
And then the gleam is seen as the glint in a giant eye and it is eclipsed by the blink of an eyelid and the darkness moves a flipper and Great A’Tuin, star turtle, swims onward through the void.
On its back, four giant elephants. On their shoulders, rimmed with water, glittering under its tiny orbiting sunlet, spinning majestically around the mountains at its frozen Hub, lies the Discworld, world and mirror of worlds.

The second mention is also about A’Tuin:

Several thousand miles under Silverfish, Great A’Tuin the world turtle sculled dreamily on through the starry night.
Reality is a curve.
That’s not the problem. The problem is that there isn’t as much as there should be.

The third and last is a typical comparison about someones appearance:

The Chair’s face creased in panic behind his false real beard. “You don’t think they’ve invited the Archchancellor, do you?”
The wizards tried to shrink inside their robes, like upright turtles.


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