by Kim White The PQF was started years ago by Leo Breebaart on the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett, and is now being maintained by Kimberley Verburg . And the people there see you differently, too. The Librarian gave him the kind of look other people would reserve for people who said things like “What’s so bad about genocide?” ― Terry Pratchett , Guards! Reader Eater. it is shown to have won the Ankh-Morpork Librarians award. Beneath it, it says ‘Penny farthing’.) Guards! There was the occasional zip and sizzle of a magical discharge, and an octarine spark would flash from shelf to shelf. Jan 28, 2013 - Here at Flavorpill, we're always on the lookout for a great library -- even if that library happens to be fictional. The Librarian served a brief stint in the City Watch during the reign of terror caused by the dragon of Ankh-Morpork, where he helped rescue Sam Vimes from the Patrician's cell. The Discworld Quiz Diary 2019 + FREE UU STICKER! Welcome back. The PQF can also be downloaded as a text file or as an Acrobat PDF file. Discworld Quotes: The Colour of Magic; The Light Fantastic; Equal Rites; Mort thesummerofmark: “ The Librarian of Unseen University (Motto: “Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides”) attends to his duties. He has become a part of Discworld language, in that to go "Librarian-poo" means to go insane (a not-so-subtle reference to the expression Going apeshit). “The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.” … I know it's fantasy, but I think it would be nice to focus only… ... Posted in Books, Humor, Image, Mean Librarian, Quote | Tagged Discworld, Terry Pratchett | Leave a reply Beware Librarians and their Lustful Fires Image. This sub is dedicated to the weird and wonderful Discworld. Wizards. "We walk out of here unharmed or the girl gets it, all right?" she screamed. “I assure you I will not kill you," said Inigo. Casie's look: I am a big fan of Terry Pratchett. Both his language and his reaction were used separately and together as jokes in the first Discworld game. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. - all quotes in this article come from this book). Rincewind is apparently the only wizard who still remembers the Librarian's name, but agreed not to tell anyone. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes and phrases like "my kind of town" and "I wanna be a part of it" in it; the kind of song where people dance in the street and give the singer apples and join in and a dozen lowly matchgirls suddenly show amazing choreographical ability and everyone acts like cheery lovable citizens instead of the murderous, evil-minded, self-centered people they suspect themselves to be. Discovering that being an orang-utan has certain advantages for a librarian (climbing the book shelves and using his hands and feet for sorting books being one such advantage), he refused to be transformed back into a human, and has remained an orang-utan ever since. The Discworld Companion hints that he may once have been Dr. Horace Worblehat, which goes a long way to explaining why he's happier as an orang-utan than as a human. The Alchemists’ Guild is opposite the Gamblers’ Guild. So that you can come back. The Librarian (notice it is a proper noun) is an orangutang. *, “It was the way he wore the place. It was the King Colour, of which all the lesser colours are merely partial and wishy-washy … and axing their legs off at the knee. The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. The image on the stamp is of an orangutan, The Librarian, seated at the musical organ of Unseen University. I want to read mort and the rest of the Tiffany Aching books next. This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. Carrot could have jollied up a circle of standing stones to form up behind him and do a rumba.”, “Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. This seems to have produced a paraphrase of these statements which has been widely quoted on the internet as a direct quote from this book (including here, for some years): "Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back. Lords and Ladies, T. Pratchett “Apes never admired the sleek of the fur and the burn of the eye, because they were too well aware of the teeth of the mouth.” — Lords and Ladies, T. Pratchett “You’re trying to tell me those… things exist because people believe in them?” It features several buildings, a large tower and several gardens. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned into solid steel.”, “On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.”. And men marched back. The Librarian of Unseen University is a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels. He retained his position as librarian despite his condition because "he's the only one who knows where all the books are" and the fact that he could screw a man's head off with his feet. His human form is played by Nicolas Tennant, who had previously played Corporal Nobbs in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather. The Librarian first appeared in the first novel of the series, The Colour of Magic, and was transformed into an orang-utan in "The Light Fantastic" as the Octavo fired a beam of magic upwards (a sort of systemwide, in this case universe-wide, update intended to save the Eighth Creation Spell (and thus Rincewind) from falling off the disc). Usually. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”, “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”, “Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.”, “You can't give her that!' You think so? The [Assassins’] Guild library was one of the largest in the city. Quotes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld Books. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Artist Paul Kidby. Forming much of the border is the main building, with the garden known as the Main Octangle in its midst, the Clock Tower housing Old Tom (th… In Soul Music, he joined the Band with Rocks In since his large hands and wide reach make him an excellent keyboard player, though he left before they became famous (which could be a reference to the Beatles). She wasn't one for that kind of thing - never one to push herself forward*, “In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane. She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so … 49.0k members in the discworld community. to a troll was suicide. he snarled. “Why do you go away? Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' Sadly, the travelling at the moment is quite complicated and keeps me in place which I don't like. I long thought this quote was a misattribution, but there it is, page 39 of the Discworld Almanac, at the bottom of a section on the month of Ember: we can assure our readers, whom we wish to preserve, that there are only two facts to bear in mind when selecting fungi: ALL FUNGI ARE EDIBLE. He remains the chief organist for the University and briefly for the Opera House, and does not consider an organ complete without a vox diabolica-stop, a thunder pedal and a 256-ft Earthquake pipe. 1. Adorably illustrated by … The other wizards have gradually become used to the situation, to the extent that "if someone ever reported that there was an orang-utan in the Library, the wizards would probably go and ask the Librarian if he'd seen it." This adaptation also establishes his name as Horace Worblehat. Discover (and save!) fuckyeahdiscworld.tumblr.com. Alternatively, it can be said that L-space manifests in our world in those obscure, hidden bookstores that, logic and the laws of physics insist, cannot possibly be as large on the outside as they appear on the inside. Oct 26, 2012 - I told you the next post today was going to be good, didn't I? Félicien Rops, The Librarian (1885) Guards! 170 votes, 21 comments. Discworld. "But... no... you … Discovering that being an orang-utan has certain advantages for a librarian (climbing the book shelves an… Nonetheless, most people seem to be able to understand him. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful.”, “Look, sir, I know Angua. Discworld Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. “And Tiffany knew that if a witch started thinking of anyone as ". In Men at Arms, it is stated that the Librarian likes being the Best Man at weddings, because the bride has to kiss him and is not allowed to run away. Feb 1, 2017 - The Librarian of Unseen University is a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels. The Librarian first appeared in the first novel of the series, The Colour of Magic, and was transformed into an orang-utan in "The Light Fantastic" as the Octavo fired a beam of magic upwards (a sort of systemwide, in this case universe-wide, update intended to save the Eighth Creation Spell (and thus Rincewind) from falling off the disc). Mar 29, 2015 - The Librarian. The Librarian is known for his violent reaction whenever he hears anyone refer to him as a "monkey" (orang-utans are apes). Reminder that these posts are allowed, so this flair will help those that wish to avoid them. Chains clinked, faintly. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Contents. Welcome to r/discworld!Please read the rules before posting.. New: "Politics" flair for posts relating to Roundworld politics. He speaks an elaborate language whose vocabulary consists of the single word Ook (and its antonym "eek" - where "ook" means yes, "eek" tends to mean no). Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.”, “Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Good thing is I have more time for reading. In every direction and as far as the eye can see bookshelves stretch off, meaning the nature of any walls are unknown. Most of the grimoires are highly dangerous to people, sometimes consuming them, but the Librarian is no person, and no longer requires a ladder to reach those tricky high-up shelves. (Orangutans are apes, remember?) Well technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders found, after a few days, that they didn't own their horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops.”, “Well, you know Esme. Do you know your Wahoonie from your Daft Wullie? So we've sifted through literature, film, and television to bring you ten of the best libraries ever imagined. Saved by Wayland Games. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The Art of Discworld confirms that the Librarian was indeed Dr. Horace Worblehat, and that his fears of turning back into human are baseless at most. “We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind. " He and Rincewind share quite a close relationship as they have a lot of history and shared adventures, the librarian liking to hold hands which has been likened to holding a small leather glove. "Yes." 27 February 2017. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”, “It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. Welcome to the third installment of Writing by Quotes! In the 2008 TV adaptation of The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, by Sky One, he appears in both human and orangutan form. your own Pins on Pinterest Pearl of cities! He only ever says "ook" (or occasionally "eek") and is partial to bananas, but don't even think of calling him a monkey. People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. Head Librarian: “Our oxen wandered off, and alas, the snow’s too deep to walk through.” Rob Anybody: “Aye. Woe be to he who … I enjoy quite wide variety of genres - … But the point was that if Carrot had erupted into a song, people WOULD have joined in. your own Pins on Pinterest The Librarian is a faculty member, and so he must have once been a human wizard. The Art of Discworld confirms that the Librarian was indeed Dr. Horace Worblehat, and that his fears of turning back into human are baseless at most - although with such a name, one could only surmise that he has a past to which he doesn't want to go back. Rincewind is apparently the only wizard who still remembers the Librarian's name, but he has agreed not to tell anyone, possibly because the Librarian is capable of bouncing the head of a man on the pavement when holding him by the ankle. This is despite his role as part of the supporting cast, but then one of the features of the series is the success of the minor characters: the members of the Faculty, the beggars, the Death of Rats, for example. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. SOME FUNGI ARE NOT EDIBLE MORE THAN ONCE. All dwarfs are by nature dutiful, serious, literate, obedient and thoughtful people whose only minor failing is a tendency, after one drink, to rush at enemies screaming "Arrrrrrgh!" Your Witches from your City Watch? I used to travel a lot , also for work, and have lived in California and in France. She's not the useless type. The Librarian is one of the most popular characters from the Discworld. (Night Watch). In Lords and Ladies the Librarian was the Best Man for Magrat and Verence. 'It's not safe! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.”, “We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind. Discover (and save!) A Do not meddle with the nature of causality. The very strict rules that members of these group are pledged to enforce are: (Of course, the Librarian has been known to break both the first and third rules on occasion, but he is adamant about the second). In his Discworld series, there is a school for wizards called, Unseen University. The University is a large walled-off complex on the turnwise side of the Ankh, somewhat hubwards of the Isle of Gods. If the Librarian's true name were known, he could be changed back into a human, and he has therefore carefully excised his name from the records of the University (since he has special access). the librarian discworld organ soul music stamp terry pratchett quote image described penny farthing unseen university As with the Discworld Wiki, the text of Wikipedia:Wikipedia is available under the Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License. The Librarian is one of Discworld's more popular characters, having been turned into an orangutan thanks to a magical accident. edited 8 months ago I have read the city watch trilogy, Rincewind trilogy, the first three books, a hat full of sky, the fifth elephant, hogfather. He waited patiently as a herd of Critters crawled past, grazing on the contents of the choicer books and leaving behind them piles of small slim volumes of literary criticism.”, “Men marched away, Vimes. Quote sentences/quotes from the Discworld novels that you find amusing and/or Clever like:-Death in Mort trying to help Mort feel more comfortable 'I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU,' he said, 'BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.' ", “The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. The Librarian; 23 February 2017. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!”. “The boldest of the three moved suddenly, grabbed Angua and pulled her upright. ', “Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.”, “Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”, “Ankh-Morpork! Oct 9, 2012 - This Pin was discovered by Hilary Bennett. “No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. She makes other people do that.”, “It's like chess, you know. The walled complex begins on the rimward side in the street known as the Backs, where one of the gates is located. He also used the Librarianic ability of travelling through L-Space (the extradimensional space that connects all libraries and other large accumulations of books) to save books from the great library of Ephebe in Small Gods. He retained an honorary position with the Watch, and is considered to be one of the first members of the 'Specials' - the Ankh-Morpork City Militia (Thud!). The Librarian is a member of a small elite group of senior librarians, who have the knowledge and ability to travel through L-space. In the Discworld picture book "Where's My Cow?" You can find more Discworld: [ Discord | r/GNUTerryPratchett] I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. New quote submissions are always welcome. Books must be returned no later than the date shown. The Queen saves the King.”, “Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. You’ve got it. "Oh, no! When I was trying to decide which work of fantasy to focus on today, I considered Warcraft. The Librarian by Micro Art Studio. The Librarian – Discworld by ~the-primitive-muse “A book has been taken. But youse got a stove an’ all them dry ol’ books.” Head Librarian: “Yes, we know.” There was the kind of wretched pause you get when two people aren’t going to understand each other’s point of view at all. The original article was at Librarian (Discworld). And it snarls.”, “Sybil’s female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars. Aug 14, 2012 - This Pin was discovered by Petronella S. DeLoreanus. This entrance is said to be "annoyingly close" to the Guild of Conjurers'Guildhall. https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Librarian?oldid=13665. 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