Span of a person's life - Revision history

JesseW: add mention of GNUTerryPratchett

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add mention of GNUTerryPratchett

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	It is also said that 'while a man's name is still spoken he is not dead'. On Roundworld people still know and speak of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare and Winston Churchill, decades or even centuries after their death. The [[Clacks]] operators have taken this one step further with the policy of 'sending home' and putting the name of dead clacks men on the overhead, with orders to turn around and resend when it reaches the end of the line, so the name will travel forever on the clacks lines.		It is also said that 'while a man's name is still spoken he is not dead'. On Roundworld people still know and speak of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare and Winston Churchill, decades or even centuries after their death. The [[Clacks]] operators have taken this one step further with the policy of 'sending home' and putting the name of dead clacks men on the overhead, with orders to turn around and resend when it reaches the end of the line, so the name will travel forever on the clacks lines.

			There are [http://gnuterrypratchett.com/ various] [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:clacks_overhead efforts] (of which this wiki is one), to do the same for PTerry.



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	On the Discworld the span of a person's life is not measured by how long they lived, but by their actions. It is said that a person is not truly dead until the things they set in motion while alive have stopped, and the effects of their actions are over. When the clock that they wound up winds down, when the crops they planted are harvested, then a person is dead.		On the Discworld the span of a person's life is not measured by how long they lived, but by their actions. It is said that a person is not truly dead until the things they set in motion while alive have stopped, and the effects of their actions are over. When the clock that they wound up winds down, when the crops they planted are harvested, then a person is dead.

	[[Windle Poons]]' life span did not end until the next full moon after his death, when [[Lupine]] and [[Ludmilla Cake\|Ludmilla]], who he had brought together both became were-people.		[[Windle Poons]]' life span did not end until the next full moon after his death, when [[Lupine]] and [[Ludmilla Cake\|Ludmilla]], who he had brought together both became were-people.
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	The cooling helmet that [[Cuddy]] had made for [[Detritus]] is still used by the troll to think clearly years after his death.		The cooling helmet that [[Cuddy]] had made for [[Detritus]] is still used by the troll to think clearly years after his death.

	Despite having been killed and buried in five ~~grave~~, [["Stoneface" Vimes\|Suffer-Not-Injustice-Vimes]]' memory and legacy lived on, so that even three hundred years later, [[Nobby\|people]] were wary about trying to become king of Ankh, recalling the part axes played in the death of the last one.		Despite having been killed and buried in five graves, [["Stoneface" Vimes\|Suffer-Not-Injustice-Vimes]]' memory and legacy lived on, so that even three hundred years later, [[Nobby\|people]] were wary about trying to become king of Ankh, recalling the part axes played in the death of the last one.

	It is also said that 'while a man's name is still spoken ~~they are~~ not dead'. On Roundworld people still know and speak of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare and Winston Churchill, decades or even centuries after their death. The [[Clacks]] operators have taken this one step further with the policy of 'sending home' and putting the name of dead clacks men on the overhead, with orders to turn around and resend when it reaches the end of the line, so the name will travel forever on the clacks lines.		It is also said that 'while a man's name is still spoken he is not dead'. On Roundworld people still know and speak of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare and Winston Churchill, decades or even centuries after their death. The [[Clacks]] operators have taken this one step further with the policy of 'sending home' and putting the name of dead clacks men on the overhead, with orders to turn around and resend when it reaches the end of the line, so the name will travel forever on the clacks lines.

Osiris: 1 revision: Discworld import 2

2012-09-24T00:12:49Z

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Dromandkass at 08:17, 29 April 2012

2012-04-29T08:17:26Z

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On the Discworld the span of a person's life is not measured by how long they lived, but by their actions. It is said that a person is not truly dead until the things they set in motion while alive have stopped, and the effects of their actions are over. When the clock that they wound up winds down, when the crops they planted are harvested, then a person is dead.

[[Windle Poons]]' life span did not end until the next full moon after his death, when [[Lupine]] and [[Ludmilla Cake|Ludmilla]], who he had brought together both became were-people.

The cooling helmet that [[Cuddy]] had made for [[Detritus]] is still used by the troll to think clearly years after his death.

Despite having been killed and buried in five grave, [["Stoneface" Vimes|Suffer-Not-Injustice-Vimes]]' memory and legacy lived on, so that even three hundred years later, [[Nobby|people]] were wary about trying to become king of Ankh, recalling the part axes played in the death of the last one.

It is also said that 'while a man's name is still spoken they are not dead'. On Roundworld people still know and speak of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare and Winston Churchill, decades or even centuries after their death. The [[Clacks]] operators have taken this one step further with the policy of 'sending home' and putting the name of dead clacks men on the overhead, with orders to turn around and resend when it reaches the end of the line, so the name will travel forever on the clacks lines.

[[Category: Discworld concepts]].