Terry Pratchett
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“Cuius testiculi habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.”
~ Noel Coward on Terry Pratchett's testicles
Terence "Terry" Ridcully-Pratchett was born in 1948 and still aten't dead. He is one of the lesser-known wizards of Unseen University, and the younger cousin of the University's chancellor, Mustrum Ridcully. A well-kept secret at the University is that Terry invented the pointy hats that all wizards wear, as well as the eighth colour, the highly magical hue octarine.
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[edit] Early Days
Terry's early days were spent in the basement of the University, learning the ways of inventing from Bloody Stupid Johnson and writing books about his travails with the wizards of the University. The first book he ever wrote published was The Colour of Magic, in which he introduced he announced his invention of the eighth colour, which only wizards could see, but definitely existed. Having invented it, it became obvious that it had been invented forever.
In truth, the first he wrote was "A Treataizzze on the The best Scale For A Mappe OF Ankh Morpork", but since he
a) decided that the 'best scale' would be 1:1
2 b) wanted to illustrate his thesis with an example
c) somehow thought The Shades would be a good place to start
he could not get a publisher to undertake the task.
This failure to write a 'serious' work led him to believe that the future lay with 'exposees' of the lives of some of his colleagues.
[edit] Travels and Writing
He travelled all over the world in which he lived, writing books about the world and its weird history, which were eventually collected into a series that was dubbed Discworld, because everyone knows that the world is shaped like a disc, with a giant spire in the middle and, according to him, balanced on the back of four elephants on a giant turtle.. Pratchett also invented the city of Ankh-Morpork, where he used to live. Interestingly, the city was originally intended as a steam-powered hair clipper, but given that he learned his inventoring arts from B. S. Johnson, it turned out to be the biggest, dirtiest, flourishing-est city in the world.
Interestingly, Pratchett is allegedly still refusing to autograph body parts, even if they are still attached to their original owner. This is probably owing to an incident in which a fan, after his girlfriend got her breasts autographed, attempted to bring his best friend's left arm for Pratchett to sign.
[edit] Comparisons
Pratchett has been compared to the late Douglas Adams, whose creation of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy made him so rich that at the time of his death, he owned almost all of Wiltshire in England. This comparison is accurate in some ways; for starters, both men were born.
In more ways than not, though, the two men are quite different. Douglas Adams, for example, did not invent magic or colours, and Pratchett never created a guide to the galaxy. Pratchett is a midget compared to Adams, who, at 6'8" was once given a prize for being the only windowcleaner in the world who could reach the first floor of buildings without a ladder. Pratchett on the other hand, received no such prizes, unless you want to include his title of OBE, which reflects his fatal attraction to Orange Bellied Elephants. It is also rumoured that Pratchett did not actually know how to fly, unlike Adams, who once famously declared that the trick was to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
