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“It could be worse,” he said by way of farewell. “It could be me.”
It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going around to atheists’ houses and smashing their windows.
It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided.
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
“But what do you want to sacrifice us for?” asked Twoflower. “You hardly know us!” “That’s rather the point, isn’t it? It’s not very good manners to sacrifice a friend.
As suddenly as it had appeared, the magical tornado vanished. And there, occupying the space where the frog had been, was a frog. “Fantastic,” said Rincewind.
But usually he didn’t bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn’t bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.
