Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the environment, you're being chased and eaten by most of the planet's large animals, and suddenly tiny versions of one of the worst of them wanders into the cave and starts to purr.

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.

Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!" "Can't we do anything about it?" "No!" "Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.

It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it’s goin’ on aboot!