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> TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE This has always stuck with me. I’m not well enough read to know if he borrowed it from somewhere
by cmgxyz 6y ago
> TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE
This has always stuck with me. I’m not well enough read to know if he borrowed it from somewhere, but I’m not sure Terry Pratchett ever wrote finer words than those. Beautifully concise and apt summary of the human condition.
- dmurray 6y agoA variation of that quote is in a book by Robert Ardrey in 1961: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Ardrey https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Ardrey
- totetsu 6y agoand maybe related to Nietzsche's "Man is a rope" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/384722-man-is-a-rope-stretched-between-the-animal-and-the https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/384722-man-is-a-rope-stretc...