Eric (1990) (edit title/settings)

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• Rincewind: A Wizard. He has a pointy hat to prove it. Also, has the survival instincts of a cockroach; could possibly live through nuclear winter. Not because of spell-casting ability so much as sheer desperation.
• Eric Thursley: A young boy who summoned Rincewind back from the Dungeon Dimensions.
• Lavaeolus: A cunning warrior (~Odysseus)
• Astfgl: King of the demons.
• Quezovercoatl: A demon from hell who has convinced a tribe to worship him as their god.
• Urglefloggah: The gatekeeper of Hell.
• The Luggage: It never dies. It's made of sapient pearwood, and impervious to all spells. It carries your socks...inside its mouth. And, yes, this suitcase DOES have hundreds of tiny legs.

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• “"Anyway, you shouldn't believe everything you read in the classics," Rincewind added. "They never check their facts. They're just out to sell legends."”

  Rincewind

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• “Multiple exclamation marks,” he went on, shaking his head, “are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”

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• Interestingly enough, the gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that’s where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won’t do if they don’t know about it. This explains why it is important to shoot missionaries on sight.

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• Hell needed horribly bright, self-centered people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage.

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• any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.

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• The captain glared at him. The sergeant put on the poker face that has been handed down from NCO to NCO ever since one protoamphibian told another, lower-ranking protoamphibian to muster a squad of newts and Take That Beach.

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• Preeminent among Rincewind’s talents was his skill in running away, which over the years he had elevated to the status of a genuinely pure science; it didn’t matter if you were fleeing from or to, so long as you were fleeing. It was flight alone that counted. I run, therefore I am; more correctly, I run, therefore with any luck I’ll still be.

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• “So we’re surrounded by absolutely nothing,” said Rincewind. “Total nothing.” He hesitated. “There’s a word for it,” he said. “It’s what you get when there’s nothing left and everything’s been used up.” “Yes. I think it’s called the bill,” said Eric.

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• You take, for example, a certain type of hotel. It is probably an English version of an American hotel, but operated with that peculiarly English genius for taking something American and subtracting from it its one worthwhile aspect, so that you end up with slow fast food, West Country and Western music and, well, this hotel.

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• *Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It’s the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

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• He could shout ‘help!’ in fourteen languages and scream for mercy in a further twelve.

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• Ankh-Morpork: The twin cities of Ankh and Morpork on the Sto Plains. Ruled by Lord Vetinari.

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Preceded by Guards! Guards!, and followed by Moving Pictures.

Preceded by Sourcery, and followed by Interesting Times.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Terry Pratchett (Author)

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• Dewey: 828'.914

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• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Authors, A-Z › ( P ) › Pratchett, Terry
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Series
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary