In a roundabout way Pratchett wasn’t a stranger to Death, who appeared as a character in most of his books. His legacy will endure for decades to come.” “Over the last few years, it was his writing that sustained him. “Terry faced his Alzheimer’s disease (an ’embuggerance’, as he called it) publicly and bravely,” Finlay continued. In recent years, Pratchett was also a strong supporter of Alzheimer’s and dementia research, due in large part to his own 2007 Alzheimer’s diagnosis. “As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirize this world: He did so brilliantly, with great skill, enormous humor and constant invention.” “In over 70 books, Terry enriched the planet like few before him,” Transworld Publishers’ Larry Finlay said. The author passed away at home with his family.
Pratchett was widely acclaimed for his work on over 70 books, including the popular Discworld series and the novel Good Omens he co-authored with Neil Gaiman. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.The End.- Terry Pratchett March 12, 2015įantasy writer Terry Pratchett, best known for his work on Discworld and Good Omens, passed away after suffering from Alzheimer’s for eight years.īeloved fantasy and comedy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has died at the age of 66, following an eight-year struggle with Alzheimer’s. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.īut the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
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