#a brilliant idea is only worth as much as is communicated and Pratchett’s was second to none at expression

[daisyachain]

this needs more detail but Pratchett’s strength as an author wasn’t that he was revolutionary. Everything he wrote had been invented before and circulated through academia and discussed and dissected. Raw genius is only a small part of what makes a work of fiction good. The other pillar on which every book stands is how it communicates. You can read the same sentiment or have the same thought over and over again and not truly understand it, because it was never put in a way that you can relate to or feel intrinsically. Terry Pratchett’s main talent was putting old, worn ideas into words that really Connect

#Kelsey liveblogs discworld #discworld #going postal #(see note) #you can say ‘virtue is more about action than about intention. you can’t voluntarily feel the right feelings but you can do the right thing’ #and it’s like sure. whatever #but if you read ‘don’t you understand? because of you I had to be the good one’ #or ‘then make selfishness into a strength!’ #or ‘you can see his muscles thinking for him but minute by minute he overrules them’ #THEN you don’t just know. you understand #a brilliant idea is only worth as much as is communicated and Pratchett’s was second to none at expression