Wyrd Sisters
Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the second book in the Witches series, part of the Discworld novels.'Pratchett's Discworld books have made millions of people happy' Guardian‘Comedy fantasy at its very best’ 5-star reader review'Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.'Three witches gathered on a lonely heath.A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the royal crown, both missing. Witches don't have these kinds of leadership problems themselves - in fact, they don't have leaders.Granny Weatherwax is the most highly regarded of the leaders they don't have. But even she finds that meddling in royal politics is a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe.Particularly when the blood on your hands just won't wash off...Wyrd Sisters is the second book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
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- Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, particularly:
"Mort" and "Reaper Man"; "Guards! Guards!", "Men at Arms", and "The Night Watch"; "Wyrd Sisters", "Witches Abroad" and "Lords and Ladies"; and "Small Gods" and "Pyramids".
The first two are about Death, the second three about Samuel Vimes, the third group about Granny Weatherwax, and the last two are stand-alones. All the books are worth reading, but those are some of the most engaging and compelling, and they teach skepticism, humanity, kindness, courage and absurdity in equal measures.
- Gives Terry Pratchett's "Wyrd Sisters" a whole new layer of meaning. The man knew his language history, apparently.
Also interesting you can see the influences of Old English on German as well:
> Wyrd comes from the same root as the verb weorþan, pronounced roughly WEAR-than, which meant ‘to happen’ or ‘become’.
"werden" is literally "to become" in modern German. The connection to "wyrd" is a bit more tenuous, but "wird" does also mean "will (be)", so there might be some common root here.
- That which sounds true is loosely correlated with that which is true.
On the other hand:
"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well-known fact," said Granny. "But I don’t hold with encouraging it." - Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
This makes LLMs much better than claimed by those who dismiss it as BS or stochastic parrot or whatever, and also not as good as domain experts.
- "Witches... certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have."
- Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters.
- “When you break rules, break ‘em good and hard.”
— Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
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