![]() ![]() His complicated back-up was on an indestructible harddrive which would be ejected from the Chapel in case of fire, to land several miles away on his property. He bought and refurbished a genuine shepherd’s hut, forged a sword with bits of Sikhote-Alin meteorite in a furnace powered by hay and sheep manure from his farm, when he was awarded the OBE. and other pursuits giving heft to Henry Thoreau’s truncated adage, ‘To sit down and write, you must stand up to live.’ And Pratchett did so gloriously-he rigged his set-up at his office, The Chapel, such that by the time he entered the door, made himself a cup of tea and sat down to write, the computer had booted up to the page where he last left it. “You like books and now you have money? Buy more books!” Pratchett and Wilkins did a lot of ‘arseing around’ with technology, farming, books. What’s the difference? The horizontally wealthy do not let increased income dictate their tastes. When success came (later than expected, and slower), Pratchett chose to be “horizontally wealthy”. Based on notes the writer made for his autobiography-taken forward by Wilkins as posterior cortical atrophy (a type of Alzheimer’s) took over Pratchett’s brain-A Life… is a handbook on living with success and with imminent death. What can we say: Some live in the times of Sai Baba we lived in the times of Pratchett. ![]()
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