Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett is available in HARDCOVER and PAPERBACK.
Quoting from the info on amazon about this book:
Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld its management is entrusted to the experts: the venerable Monks of History, who store it and pump it from where it’s wasted, like underwater (after all, how much time does a codfish really need?) to places like cities, where harried citizens are forever lamenting, “Oh where does the time go?”
And while everyone always talks about slowing down, one clever soul is about to stop. Stop time, that is. For good. Going against everything known (and the nine tenths of everything that remains unknown), a young horologist has been commissioned to build the world’s first truly accurate clock. It falls to History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd to find the timepiece and stop it before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, Time — as we know it — will stop. And then the trouble will really begin.
Favorite passages:
Nine-tenths of the universe is the knowledge of the position and direction of everything in the other tenth. Every atom has its biography, every star its file, every chemical exchange its equivalent of the inspector with a clipboard. It is unaccounted for because it is doing the accounting for the rest of it.
Nine-tenths of the universe, in fact, is the paperwork.
–
They were the observers of the operation of the universe, its clerks, its auditors. They saw to it that things spun and rocks fell.
And they believed that for a thing to exist it had to have a position in time and space. Humanity had arrived as a nasty shock. Humanity practically was things that didn’t have a position in time and space, such as imagination, pity, hope, history and belief. Take those away and all you had was an ape that fell out of trees a lot.
Excerpted from THIEF OF TIME.
Copyright 2001
All Rights reserved
For more information on other passages from the book, visit www.thiefoftime.net.
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett is available in HARDCOVER and PAPERBACK.
Related posts:
- The Walking Drum
- The Deep End of the Ocean
- wOOhOO: Celebrate Good News
- Rhyme
- The “We” Nurse
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Print This Post
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2001 at 12:15 am and is filed under Book Passage.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Pammy, the main character in the 
Many of those 
Editor of The Blue Rose Bouquet since 1998 and a professional writer since 1984,