It wasn't very high, but lay amongst the dunes like an upturned boat or a very unlucky whale, and was covered in scrub trees. The Discworld is as unreal as it is possible to be while still being just real enough to exist.Īnd just real enough to be in real trouble.Ībout thirty miles Turnwise of Ankh-Morpork the surf boomed on the wind-blown, seagrass-waving, sand-dunecovered spit of land where the Circle Sea met the Rim Ocean. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time. Some people are more real than others, for example. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. On their shoulders, rimmed with water, glittering under its tiny orbiting sunlet, spinning majestically around the mountains at its frozen Hub, lies the Discworld, world and mirror of worlds.
Īnd then the gleam is seen as the glint in a giant eye and it is eclipsed by the blink of an eyelid and the darkness moves a flipper and Great A'Tuin, star turtle, swims onward through the void. )Īnd against the wash of stars a nebula hangs, vast and black, one red giant gleaming like the madness of gods. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate. It's sometimes called the final frontier. Carlson’s deposition and those of his subordinates “in the very near term.This is space. Rahman said that the legal team would be taking Mr. Carlson’s departure from Fox News “is, in part, an admission of the systemic lying, bullying and conspiracy mongering claimed by our client.” Mr. Grossberg’s attorneys, Tanvir Rahman, said that Mr. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, also names Fox Corporation, Fox News, some network executives and several of Mr. Grossberg’s unmeritorious legal claims, which are riddled with false allegations against Fox and our employees,” a Fox News spokeswoman said. “We will continue to vigorously defend Fox against Ms. Carlson hasn’t said anything publicly about the case.
Carlson, his producers emailed the rest of the staff in recognition of “Abby Day” and suggested ordering a staff lunch to celebrate.įox has disputed Ms. Grossberg also said in her lawsuit that after she was coerced by Fox’s lawyers into providing a misleading deposition in a recent defamation case brought by Dominion Voting Systems and defending an offensive text from Mr.
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