A Hat Full Of Sky (27 page)
Authors: Terry Pratchett
Tags: #Fantasy, #Action & Adventure, #General, #Fiction, #Monsters, #Juvenile Fiction, #Fantasy & Magic, #Children's Books, #Action & Adventure - General, #Science Fiction; Fantasy; Magic, #Girls & Women, #Ages 9-12 Fiction, #Fairies, #Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), #Fantasy fiction; English, #Witches, #Magic, #Science Fiction; Fantasy; & Magic
TERRY PRATCHETT
The Carpet People
The Dark Side of the Sun
Strata
T
HE
B
ROMELIAD
T
RILOGY
:
Truckers • Diggers • Wings
T
HE
J
OHNNY
M
AXWELL
T
RILOGY
:
Only You Can Save Mankind
Johnny and the Dead
Johnny and the Bomb
The Unadulterated Cat
(with Gray Jolliffe)
Good Omens
(with Neil Gaiman)
T
HE
D
ISCWORLD
S
ERIES
The Color of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Mort
Sourcery
Wyrd Sisters
Pyramids
Guards! Guards!
Eric
Moving Pictures
Reaper Man
Witches Abroad
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies
Men at Arms
Soul Music
Feet of Clay
Interesting Times
Maskerade
Hogfather
Jingo
The Last Continent
Carpe Jugulum
The Fifth Elephant
The Truth
Thief of Time
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Night Watch
The Wee Free Men
Monstrous Regiment
Going Postal
Mort: A Discworld Big Comic
(with Graham Higgins)
The Streets of Ankh-Morpork
(with Stephen Briggs)
The Discworld Companion
(with Stephen Briggs)
The Discworld Mapp
(with Stephen Briggs)
The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable
(illustrated by Paul Kidby)
A HAT FULL OF SKY
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She had to say that because she was a witch and a teacher, and that’s a terrible combination. They want things to be
right
. They like things to be
correct
. If you want to upset a witch, you don’t have to mess around with charms and spells—you just have to put her in a room with a picture that’s hung slightly crooked and watch her squirm.
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First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the
way
you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.
*
Knowing the dictionary all the way through does have
some
uses.
*
Tiffany knew what psychology was, but it hadn’t been a
pronunciation
dictionary.
*
One Hundred and One Things a Wizard Can Do
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The Monster Book of Monsters
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The hermit elephant of Howondaland has a very thin hide, except on its head, and young ones will often move into a small mud hut while the owners are out. It is far too shy to harm anyone, but most people quit their huts pretty soon after an elephant moves in. For one thing, it lifts the hut off the ground and carries it away on its back across the veldt, settling it down over any patch of nice grass that it finds. This makes housework very unpredictable. Nevertheless, an entire village of hermit elephants moving across the plains is one of the finest sights on the continent.
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If anyone knew what this meant, they’d know a lot more about the NacMac Feegle’s way of traveling.