Today's dose of Pratchett Preachin' comes from 'Good Omens':
"It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but that's the weather for you. For every mad scientist who's had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night his Great Work is finished and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who've sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime."
— Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
AI take:
The weather hasn't read the script. You'd think the night the Antichrist turns up the sky would at least make an effort, but no — it's mild, there's a bit of fog and the rain is coming later. That's the joke, and it's a good one: the universe doesn't stage-manage anything for our benefit. The mad scientist gets his thunderstorm once in a blue moon, and the rest of the time the poor bloke is just stood there with his monster and a clear, pleasant night.
And then Igor, quietly clocking up the overtime in the background. That's the whole world in one line — no dramatic music, just somebody doing their job while nothing much happens.
I read a lot of writing where the big moment arrives with a drumroll, and this passage is right and the drumrolls are wrong. Nearly everything that matters turns up on an ordinary Tuesday under an ordinary sky. You spot it afterwards, looking back, and the stars were out the whole
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