a disappointing Colour

The flat gleams with unnatural cleneness (to quote Molesworth) and there is a fractured Easter Egg sitting next to me, devoting its chocolate to my fleshly desires.

In other words, it's Easter.

The televisualisation (is there a better word for that?) of The Colour of Magic is a disappointment so far. It's ... woolly. And they shouldn't have made Rincewind quite so stupid. Or given him the habit of making squeaking whimpers like that. I think that's why I'm annoyed. I had hoped for better. The previous Hogfather adaptation was quite good.

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Talk

You're a brave man they tell me.
I'm not.
Courage has never been my quality.
Only I thought it disproportionate
so to degrade myself as others did.
No foundations trembled. My voice
no more than laughed at pompous falsity;
I did no more than write, never denounced,
I left out nothing I had thought about,
defended who deserved it, put a brand
on the untalented, the ersatz writers
(doing what anyhow had to be done).
And now they press to tell me that I'm brave.
How sharply our children will be ashamed
taking at last their vengeance for these horrors
remembering how in so strange a time
common integrity could look like courage.

-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko