Terry pratchett on going postal5/9/2023 ![]() In the ten years since I first picked up The Fifth Elephant, my work has been littered with Pratchettisms to varying degrees. ![]() If imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery, then teenage me would have been the steamroller to Terry Pratchett’s somewhat plagiarised tarmac. However, Pratchett was very important to me possibly even more important than my fear of genuinely demonstrating emotion on the internet. That’s a corny line, and one that he himself would most likely have tempered with a footnote and a pun. Pratchett was always going to live on in the writing of all those he influenced. It’s a nice gesture well-considered, fitting, but in all honesty, unnecessary. In a nod to a concept from his novel Going Postal, a small line of code has been created for fans to subtly embed into their websites to ensure that Pratchett’s name and legacy will continue. ![]() In the wake of Terry Pratchett’s death, programmers have paid homage to his work by ensuring that he will ‘live on in the clacks’. ![]()
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