Последний герой. Сказание о Плоском мире
A Fiction, Humor, Fantasy book. It's classical mythology, Cohen," said the minstrel. "I thought everyone knew. He was chained to a rock for...
…Прежде всего, поговорим о месте, где произошла наша история. А случилось все на планете, покоящейся на спинах у четырех слонов, которые стоят на панцире гигантской черепахи. Таково уж преимущество вселенной. Она достаточно велика, чтобы вместить в себя практически все, что угодно, чем она с успехом и пользуется.Вниманию читателей предлагается фантастическая история Терри Пратчетта.
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Their eyes said that... they did know the meaning of the word 'fear'. It was something that happened to other people. Terry Pratchett, The Last Hero // It's classical mythology, Cohen," said the minstrel. "I thought everyone knew. He was chained to a rock for eternity and every day an eagle comes and pecks out his liver.""Is that true?""It's mentioned in many of the classic texts.""I'm not much of a reader," said Cohen. "Chained to a rock? For a first offence? He's still there?""Eternity isn't finished yet, Cohen.""He must've had a big liver!""It grows again every night, according to the legend," said the minstrel."I wish my kidneys did," said Cohen. Terry Pratchett, The Last Hero // Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that the Heavenly Host and other essential services take up at least two thirds of this space, this leaves about one million cubic feet of space for each human occupant- assuming that every creature that could be called human is allowed in, and the the human race eventually totals a thousand times the numbers of...
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