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Small Gods • 1992
Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Pratchett closes a passage of narration in Small Gods with a darkly comic observation about time. Treating it like an addictive substance turns the ordinary fact of mortality into a sharp joke.
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- Penguin: Small Gods samplePrintedpage12, PDFpage13/zero-based12; final narration sentence before abbot dialogueReference checked
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