(This essay has grammatical and orthographical
mistakes. Sorry about it, but my English is quite poor, I have no excuse).
In my humble opinion, I have to say that Pratchett
was an awesome writer. Why I think this way? The first thing that comes into my mind
is because of his capacity to combine different kinds of knowledge.
That is, he was a humanistic writer; his books have some of almost everything,
he talked about almost everything. He wrote about politics, economics, philosophy,
psychology, physics, religion…Pratchett was aware of the importance of making a
new world looking credible. So you can’t obviate the science of this new world,
or the political system. Everything is interconnected, so everything
must be said, or written, in this case.
And what is more, the sceptical attitude
showed in his books also has the ability to tell the lector that everything said
(about the world, of course) is relative to the context, that everything said
can be questioned. So you acquire the skills
to be an sceptical person, you learn to be a scientific person who wants to
discover the world, moreover, who wants to discover what the world is about. Sorry, what people think the world is about.
And that is why I love Terry’s books. His
books allowed me to see the world with new eyes. I gained the ability to see
the possibilities of making a decision or not. To understand the multi-universe,
and thanks to that, I can make myself more aware of…myself, of my own
decisions. Because I love learning that things can be different. That there is
nothing written previously and you can’t take life seriously. The idea I can figure
about reading his books is that with humour you have the capacity to understand
that the world may be incongruent, but at least, you can laugh about it and share
it with your friends, because we have words.
Maybe Pratchett was an analytic philosopher
and writer. He was very conscious about the power of language, therefore, the
power of the words and the logic of the argumentation was also crucial. Because
of words, we can make beliefs. And every belief shared has an incredible power
of making the things looking like the things believed. As I think, Pratchett
understood the human brain very well. His
characters were so credible. They were alive in the world so full of incongruences,
and they flowed in this kind of scenery like mud in a swamp. Yes, because they kept
going on, with a sedentary moving, however, they moved, like the turtle does with
fourth elephants in her back.
Everything looks incredible, so put imagination
on it and the incredibility of everything will grow exponentially.
Thank you,
Terry Pratchett, for teaching me this lesson.
