But the trouble was that ignorance became more interesting, especially big fascinating ignorance about huge and important things like matter and creation, and people stopped patiently building their little houses of rational sticks in the chaos of the universe and started getting interested in the chaos itself-partly because it was a lot easier to be an ex- 1 2 / Terry Pratchett pert on chaos, but mostly because it made really good patterns that you could put on a t-shirt. Occasionally he would straighten up and say things like “Hurrah, I’ve discovered Boyle’s Third Law.” And everyone knew where they stood. Because the universe was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain stream, looking for the gold of knowledge among the gravel of unreason, the sand of uncertainty and the little whiskery eight-legged swimming things of superstition. But then…it used to be so simple, once upon a time.

Once upon a time such a universe was considered unusual and, possibly, impossible. Terry Pratchett Witches Abroad A Novel of Discworld® Dedicated to all those people-and why not?-who, after the publication of Wyrd Sisters, deluged the author with their version of the words of “The Hedgehog Song.” Deary deary me… Contents Begin Reading About the Author Praise Other Books by Terry Pratchett Cover Copyright About the Publisher This is the Discworld, which travels through space on the back of four elephants which themselves stand on the shell of Great A’Tuin, the sky turtle.

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