Eric

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

Why in Database: Another (shorter than most) discworld book, with three turtle mentions, all about A’Tuin. The first one takes place on the title page, where the place (address) of the action is given (you can see it in the picture below, in the illustrated version the font of this fragment differs from the rest of the text). Second mention is typical description of A’Tuin. In the third fragmente Rincewind wonders “how it all came into being. ” This book is shorter, but in the original version (because “the text itself” was also published), it is illustrated! And in the graphics, A’tuin appears two times.

On top of Great A’tuin

Below, harshly lit in the arid vacuum of space, Great A’Tuin the world turtle toiled under the weight of Creation. On his—or her, the matter had never really been resolved—carapace the four giant elephants strained to support the Disc itself.

Rincewind had wondered how it had all started. He’d imagined a sort of explosion in reverse, with interstellar gases roaring together to form Great A’Tuin, or at least a roll of thunder or something.



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