Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

by Terry Pratchett

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

human head is a din. It is a railway terminus with all the Tannoys talking at once. It is a complete FM waveband—and some of those stations aren’t reputable, they’re outlawed pirates on forbidden seas who play late-night records with limbic lyrics.

He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spend ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air every day.

It was a nice green waterproof one. That meant that all the rain that had got into it couldn’t get out again.