Humans are always slightly lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them. (LL)
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'I just know where I am all the time,' said Granny.
'Well? I know where I am, too.' 'No, you don't. You just happen to be present. That's not the same.' (LL) Granny Weatherwax seemed to generate a gyroscopic field – if you started out off-balance, she saw to it that you remained there. (LL)
… she was definitely feeling several twinkles short of a glitter and suffering a slight homesick-tinged dip in her usual sunny nature. People didn’t hit you over the head with farmhouses back home. (WA)
Confusion always helped, when it wasn't yours; when it was time for a hue and cry, make sure who was hue. (UA)
The road, Hwel felt, had to go somewhere.
This geographical fiction has been the death of many people. Roads don’t necessarily have to go anywhere, they just have to have somewhere to start. (WS) 'We ought to get him home as soon as possible. What’s the usual direction? “Second star to the left and straight on ‘til morning”?’
‘I think that may very probably be the stupidest piece of astronavigation ever suggested,’ said Rincewind. (LH) Rob Anybody looked offended. ‘We ne’er get lost!’ he said. ‘We always ken where we are! It’s just sometimes mebbe we aren’t sure where everything else is, but it’s no’ our fault if everything else gets lost! The Nac Mac Feegle are never lost!' (WFM)
It was one of the weak spots of Granny Weatherwax’s otherwise well-developed character that she’d never bothered to get the hang of steering things. It was alien to her nature. She took the view that it was her job to move and the rest of the world to arrange itself so that she arrived at her destination. (WA)
It would be mistaken to say the Luggage was nowhere to be seen. It was somewhere to be seen, it was just that the place wasn’t anywhere near Rincewind. (S)
Granny’s implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and, on
occasion, mountains. (WS) Granny, meanwhile, was two streets away. She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see
it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn’t. (ER) |
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