Thank You Terry Pratchett

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Thank you Terry Pratchett for saving ‘The
Little Match Girl’ originally by Hans Christian
Andersen, for sending Death, Susan’s grand-
father, posing as Hogfather in the Discworld,
to save her life, erasing forever the terrible
image of a little girl dying while seeing visions
in burning matches – thank you for delivering
us from a most horrible nightmare scene!

Thank you also for pointing out how stupid Romeo
and Juliet were, how easily they could have ascer-
tained that each was alive before trying suicide,
thank you for taking our fear away and giving us a
new take on life, for showing that there is no such
thing as fate, only silly humans with bad decisions; -
thank you Walt Disney for saving ‘The Little Mermaid’
from death and a hundred pained years

To win an eternal soul – These stories used to haunt
me, plagued my sleep, but you solved the problem
by pointing out fallacies; you will never know how
much you have helped me in coming to terms with
the harsh culture in which we live – that gave rise
to spectres like this!


“Hogfather” Terry Pratchett – Gollanz, 1996
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