It occurred to me today that its December, and time to dig out my favorite Christmas movie and book of all time: Hogfather! In which DEATH (which should be small caps if FB liked me) must stand in for the absent holiday sprite. Oh yes. _____________________________________ “All right, said Susan. Im not stupid. Youre saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable. REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little— YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. So we can believe the big ones? YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. Theyre not the same at all! YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. Yes, but people have got to believe that, or whats the point— MY POINT EXACTLY.” ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather If you havent read/seen, by all means do fix that. amazon/Hogfather-Discworld-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0061059056 imdb/title/tt0765458/
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:32:15 +0000
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