title: The Folklore of Discworld
author:  Terry Pratchett 
description: One of the most interesting and critically underrated novelists we have  <b>The Folklore of Discworld</b>  co-authored with the eminent folklorist Jacqueline Simpson  emphasizes his irreverence and drollery.<br /> <i>The Times</i><br /><br />Pratchett is, like Mark Twain or Jonathan Swift, not just a great writer but also an original thinker  funny, exciting, lighthearted and, like all the best comedy, very serious.<br /> <i>Guardian</i>
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  # Discworld 20 - Hogfather
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Discworld 20 - Hogfather
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Discworld 20 - Hogfather
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Discworld 20 - Hogfather
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## by Pratchett, Terry
  
  
  Discworld 20 - Hogfather
  
  
  Hogfather
  
  
  Terry Pratchett
  
  
  
  
  
  Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
  
  
  But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of
  things. They wonder
  
  
  aloud how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of
  dictionaries look up the
  
  
  spelling of the words. Yet there is the constant desire to find some point in
  the twisting, knotting,
  
  
  ravelling nets of space-time on which a metaphorical finger can be put to
  indicate that here, here, is
  
  
  the point where it all began...
  
  
  Something began when the Guild of Assassins enrolled Mister Teatime, who saw
  things differently
  
  
  from other people, and one of the ways that he saw things differently from
  other people was in
  
  
  seeing other people as things (later, L