Mark Temple

“The Door of Knowledge Through Which the Untutored May Not Pass sticks something wicked in the damp.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Hrun the Barbarian, who was practilly an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“untrue. The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one of those that look as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more staircases than storys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Perhaps there is something in this reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits? It was a cumbersome phrase. Rincewind tried to get his tongue around the thick syllables that were the word in Twoflower's own language.
"Ecolirix?" he tried. "Ecro-gnothics? Echo-gnomics?"
That would do. That sounded about right.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic