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Diggers · 1990
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
A joke with a barb in it: an open mind sounds like pure virtue, but it is also an invitation, and everyone with a theory, a sermon or a sales pitch will queue up to fill it. Readers quote it against credulity and propaganda, and it sits well in a trilogy about a tribe whose comfortable beliefs are overturned.
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In context
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Diggers (1990) is the middle book of Terry Pratchett's Nome Trilogy, the children's series about four-inch people hiding among humans. It follows Grimma and Dorcas while Masklin is away at the airport with the Thing. The Quarry Nomes, now free of their old department store, must cope with humans reopening the abandoned quarry and with a revolt led by a hard-line believer in the store. The trilogy as a whole is about a tribe's accepted beliefs being overturned by new information. Wikiquote credits this line to Diggers without giving a chapter.
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- Wikipedia: The Nome TrilogyPlot synopses, Diggers (1990); ThemesReference checked
- Wikiquote: Terry PratchettThe Nome Trilogy (1989-1990)Reference checked
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