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Imaginary Worlds
Terry Pratchett's Ambivalent Feelings About Class
Terry Pratchett never worked that way. He used to ring a lot when he started doing a book and would say, oh, I'm doing this one. You'll like this. It'll be a good part for you in it. And then the next novel would be about that very thing. So he really, I think, started off with an idea which ended up being the main plot of a book. The idea often got buried completely or maybe turned up something in different books, more else. In fact, everybody said to understand Pratchett, you need to look at four characters that he kept coming back to throughout the series. Each one represents a different side of his personality
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