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On 23/05/07, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: Absolutely. It put me very much in mind of Pratchett's druidic stone circles: << "Ah, so you're an astronomer?" said Twoflower. "Oh no," said Belafon, as the rock drifted gently around the curve of a mountain. "I'm a computer hardware consultant." "What's a computer hardware?" "Well, this is," said the druid, tapping the rock with a sandalled foot. "Part of one, anyway. It's a replacement. I'm delivering it. They're having trouble with the big circles up on the Vortex Plains. So they say, anyway; I wished I had a bronze tore for every user who didn't read the manual." [...] Belafon: "Almanac?" Rincewind: "It's a book that tells you what day it is. It'd be right up your leyline." Belafon: "Book? Like, with paper?" Rincewind: "Yes." Belafon: "That doesn't sound very reliable to me. How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't count." [...] Rincewind: "Have you ever heard of culture shock?" Twoflower: "What's that?" Rincewind: "It's what happens when people spend five hundred years trying to get a stone circle to work properly and then someone comes up with a little book with a page for every day and little chatty bits saying things like 'Now is a good time to plant broad beans' and 'Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead,' and do you know what the most important thing to remember about culture shock is?" Twoflower: "What?" Rincewind: "Don't give it to a man flying a thousand ton rock." [...] "It looks like a lot of rocks," said Twoflower. Belafon hesitated in mid-gesture. "What?" he said. "It's very nice," added the tourist hurriedly. He sought for a word. "Ethnic," he decided. The druid stiffened. "Nice?" he said. "A triumph of the silicon chunk, a miracle of modern masonic technology -- nice?" "Oh, yes," said Twoflower, to whom sarcasm was merely a seven letter word beginning with S. -- Liam Proven ? Blog, homepage &c: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat: liamproven at aol.com ? MSN/Messenger: lproven at hotmail.com Yahoo: liamproven at yahoo.co.uk ? Skype: liamproven ? ICQ: 73187508