Quote: on glasslessness

[mahnmut]

William de Worde, a professional scribe who in this novel becomes the editor of the Discworld's first newspaper, The Ankh-Morpork Times, contemplates about people's diverse attitudes to half-full, half-empty glasses; and something more...


There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.

The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: 'What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!'

And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass), or who had no glass at all, because they were at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.


(From The Truth by Terry Pratchett)

 

Comments

[kardashev.livejournal.com]

Some see the glass as half full. Some see it as half empty.

I look and say, "Hey, that's half a glass of water."

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

When asked, my answer is always, it depends....was it a full glass that was drunk down, or an empty glass thsat was filled half way....but yours works for me :

[kardashev.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I don't worry so much about the amount of water. What concerns me is if someone else already drank from the glass and left some backwash behind. ;)

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Relativist!!

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Atheist!!

[kardashev.livejournal.com]

lol!

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Query: should I try to read the disc world books in order? I have only read the first one, and that was pretty confusing.
Like I mentioned once I read for fun more than to see how clever writers are :D

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily in order, but it helps, yes.

Or you could try reading them by storylines:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld#Storylines

Nevertheless, each books is separate enough from the others, so you could read them in no particular order. But that'd be a bit more confusing.

It could be pretty confusing even when reading them in perfect order, because it requires some imagination to get beneath the surface ;-)

[il-mio-gufo.livejournal.com]

Which "type" are you Mahnmut?

Half full?
Half Empty?
My Glass was Full!?
Broken Glass?
Had no glass at all?

I think your are "MY GLASS WAS FULL." dunno why though ;)

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

I moved from the My Glass Was Full type to the Half Full type. Or I like to think I did.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

You know, according to quantum physics, everything is mostly empty. Just saying :)

[fischlehrer.livejournal.com]

Some day the glass is half full. Others say the glass is half empty. Engineers say the glass is two sizes too big.

(Read this on a tshirt.)

I say beware of broken glass!

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Well said! And your first sentence contained an error which I liked! Some day the glass is half full (the other half empty). So true! :-)