Small Gods (Terry David John Pratchett) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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Terry said in an article to a.f.p: “This probably is a good time to raise the ‘lonesome valley/lonesome desert’ lines from Small Gods, with apologies to you who, because of finance, heel-dragging by publishers or because you threw all that tea in the harbour, haven’t read it yet. Yes, I know variants of the song have turned up on various folk/country/spiritual albums over the last forty years, but some American friends tracked variations of it back to the last century and the anonymous mists of folk Christianity. So I used it, like everyone else has done. Like ‘Lord of the Dance’, it’s one of those songs that transcends a specific religion — and also a very attractive use of language.”