On the remaining Survivors . . .

Yeah, I was thinking Wyoming too. I really really suck at geography — but not so much so that Arizona crossed my mind! I feel better now.

That's actually the only thing I have seen (or can remember seeing) her in, and it was probably 20+ years ago, yet I've always remembered her name and thought fondly of her as a result.

Less dumb than you think, Excitable Misunderstood Genius! Less dumb than you think!!

I mean, I upvoted you, but Jesus.

Thank you! In this case, the footnote itself isn't clickable, but hitting the "back" button works. I guess I know what I'm doing for the rest of the evening! Now I just need to decide whether to read Small Gods, because it's my favorite, or Mort, because it's the first Pratchett I ever read, or Guards! Guards! because…

On my Kindle app, you just have to it the "back" button apparently, and it takes you back to the page you were reading when you hit the footnote. Thanks for making me give it a second try instead of just assuming it was hopelessly stupid!

He'll always be alive in the literary present!

I decided I had to read some Pratchett RIGHT NOW last night while away from my book collection, so I downloaded one to my Kindle. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but the footnotes are a disaster on Kindle (you click it, it takes you to the end, then you have to scroll all the way the fuck back to where you were).

Yeah, I meant more that it doesn't make a difference, not so much that it doesn't matter. Vonnegut just has a despair that I don't see in Pratchett.

That's true, though "what a great friend I have in the eagle" makes me laugh all the time.

Yes! Thank you!

I think maybe it's that Vonnegut thought that people can be good, but it doesn't really matter, while Pratchett thought that people can be good, and it matters. It is also possible that I'm full of shit. So it goes.

I want to say something charming or profound, but I'm too fucking depressed right now.

I would not pair Adams and Pratchett to begin with, but I also had not thought to link Pratchett and Vonnegut, which is a spot-on comparison. Unfortunately, it's a comparison that just makes me that much sadder about Pratchett's death.

I was raised religious (though not vehemently so) but am religious no longer. Still, I have respect for the ideology in which I grew up. One thing I love about Small Gods is that it absolutely lambasts zealotry (in both its religious and atheist forms) but respects the religious impulse.

Read Small Gods whether religiously inclined or not. It's fantastic.

This has nothing to do with your comment, but you mentioned music, which we reminded me that the music did this little Samurai movie trill when Joe first squared off against the lizard, and it made me laugh.

I can handle the fascination with monkey sex. I can't handle making monkey noises to befriend the horrible things. Monkeys eat faces!

We call that hanging on to one of those styrofoam tablet thingies when you're learning how to swim where I am from.