{"id":3962,"date":"2007-12-12T09:47:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/12\/terry-pratchett-diagnosed-with-early-onset-alzheimers\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T09:47:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T17:07:15","slug":"terry-pratchett-diagnosed-with-early-onset-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3962","title":{"rendered":"Terry Pratchett Diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pratchett remains optomistic<\/a> and asks that the community respond with cheer.<\/p>\n

I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s, which lay behind this year’s phantom “stroke”.<\/p>\n

We are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism. For now work is continuing on the completion of Nation and the basic notes are already being laid down for Unseen Academicals. All other things being equal, I expect to meet most current and, as far as possible, future commitments but will discuss things with the various organisers. Frankly, I would prefer it if people kept things cheerful, because I think there’s time for at least a few more books yet. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As PZ says<\/a>, Pratchett “Aintn’t dead yet.”<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

UPDATE: It occurs to me that you all may not know who Terry Pratchett is. He’s a comic fantasy writer who has penned many, many novels in a universe called Discworld. Discworld started out as a fairly simple parody of fantasy epics starring a wizard named Rincewind, but quickly got much more sophisticated. It’s a rich and historically deep series that takes on a number of topics. One of my favorite books is a satire of philosophers and religion. The most recent takes on the historical development of paper money. Very little makes me as simply joyful as reading a new Terry Pratchett book — or even an old one that I like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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