Now Reading ...
Apr. 15th, 2011 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
texchanSo, my plan of posting a tidbit from each book I read (as I read them) only seems to work when I'm in the midst of a Disc World novel. Something about Pratchett just needs to be shared, I suppose. ^.~
"Or ... Perdita. She could go back to trying Perdita. She'd been embarrassed out of using that name in Lancre. It was a mysterious name, hinting of darkness and intrigue and, incidentally, of someone who was quite thin. She'd even given herself a middle initial -- X -- which stood for "someone who has a cool and exciting middle initial."
It hadn't worked. Lancre people were depressingly resistant to cool. She had just been known as "that Agnes who calls herself Perditax." "
~ Maskerade, Terry Pratchett
(Hmmm ... I think I grew up in Lancre, too. Heh.)
"Or ... Perdita. She could go back to trying Perdita. She'd been embarrassed out of using that name in Lancre. It was a mysterious name, hinting of darkness and intrigue and, incidentally, of someone who was quite thin. She'd even given herself a middle initial -- X -- which stood for "someone who has a cool and exciting middle initial."
It hadn't worked. Lancre people were depressingly resistant to cool. She had just been known as "that Agnes who calls herself Perditax." "
~ Maskerade, Terry Pratchett
(Hmmm ... I think I grew up in Lancre, too. Heh.)