Interesting Times

Title: Interesting Times
Author(s): Terry Pratchett
Release year: 1994
Publisher: Victor Gollancz

Why in Database: Typically for Discworld, this book contains some turtle references. The first two are at the very beginning and are about A’Tuin:

This is the Discworld, which goes through space on the back of a giant turtle.
Most worlds do, at some time in their perception. It’s a cosmological view the human brain seems pre-programmed to take.

But this is the Discworld, which has not only the turtle but also the four giant elephants on which the wide, slowly turning wheel of the world revolves.

In the next two fragments turtles are used as the insults:

Rincewind had to concede that the shouting man was right. Not, that is, about Rincewind’s father being the diseased liver of a type of mountain panda and his mother being a bucket of turtle slime; Rincewind had no personal experience of either parent but felt that they were probably at least vaguely humanoid, if only briefly.

“Silence, mouth of—” The guard hesitated.
“You’ve used turtle, goldfish, and what you probably meant to be cheese,” said Rincewind.
“Mouth of chicken gizzards!”

The last one is a turtle… realizing his (not very good) situation:

From one stall a tortoise on top of a struggling heap of other tortoises under a sign saying: 3r. each, good for Ying gave Rincewind a slow, “You think you’ve got troubles?” look.


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