![]() Sadly I am not as huge of a fan of non-mutated turtles of the non-ninja variety, but the books really don’t mind. The Discworld books are wonderfully written fantasy/comedy books on their own, but I am pretty sure one of the draws for her was the fact the round-yet-flat world soared through space on the back of a giant turtle. ![]() I was introduced to the world of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels a little over a decade ago by a wonderful woman I was seeing who loved turtles.This actually is relevant since the aforementioned Discworld actually is a disc-shaped world which is held up by no less than four elephants on the back of the Great A’tuin, a massive star-faring Turtle. So let’s just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound.” Perhaps it’s the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it’s just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork.
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