Nightmare Realm - Scene from 'Equal Rites'
Simon was sitting cross-legged in the centre of a circle of Things (...) There was something small and angular held in his cupped hands. It gave off a fuzzy blue light that made his face look strange (...) Other shapes lay on the ground beside him, each in its little soft glow. They were the regular sort of shapes that Granny dismissed airily as jommetry-cubes, many-sided diamonds, cones, even a globe. Each one was transparent (...)
Inside a crystal sphere that had been tossed aside on to the sand floated a blue-green ball, crisscrossed with tiny white cloud patterns and what could almost have been continents if anyone was silly enough to try to live on a ball. It might have been a sort of model, except something about its glow told Esk that it was quite real and probably very big and not - in every sense - totally inside the sphere. (...)
He was holding a small glass pyramid. There were stars in it, and occasionally he would give it a little shake so that the stars swirled up like snow in the wind, and then settled back in their places. Then he would giggle. And beyond the stars .... It was the Discworld. A Great A'Tuin no bigger than a small saucer toiled along under a world that looked like the work of an obsessive jeweller. Jiggle, swirl. Jiggle, swirl, giggle. There were already hairline cracks in the glass. (...) βIt's just numbers!β she said. βThe whole world - it's all made up of numbers ....β βIt's not the world, it's an idea of the world,β said Simon. βI created it for them. They can't get through to us, do you see, but ideas have got a shape here. Ideas are real!β GIVE IT TO US
Terry Pratchett
Lovely book with a powerful scene I had absolute pleasure to illustrate. Maybe my small wish will come true one day and this work could become a part of the book page. Who knows! :3
Your comment is very much appreciated! Thank you Sir Terry for always being such a strong inspiration to my artistic journey!
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