title: When the Blue Heron Flies: Prayer-Poems to Nourish the Spirit
author:  Melannie Svoboda 
description: Melannie Svoboda, SND, is author of By the Way, Just Because, and many other books from Twenty-Third Publications. She currently writes, directs retreats, and gives talks.
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  ## Unseen Academicals
  
  
  A Novel of Discworld™
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Terry Pratchett
  
  
  ![image](../images/00001.jpeg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is dedicated to Rob Wilkins, who typed  
  most of it and had the good sense to laugh occasionally.  
  And to Colin Smythe for his encouragement.
  
  
  The chant of the goddess Pedestriana is a parody of  
  the wonderful poem ‘Brahma’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson,  
  but of course you knew that anyway.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Begin
  Reading](part0004_split_000.html#3Q282-98d5e35b515342dd939046c96849440a)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [About the Author](part0015.html#filepos1107972)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Other Books by Terry Pratchett](part0016.html#filepos1108864)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Credits](part0017.html#filepos1114661)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Copyright](part0018.html#filepos1114987)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [About the Publisher](part0019.html#filepos1116521)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##
  
  
  
  
  
  IT WAS MIDNIGHT in Ankh-Morpork’s Royal Art
  Museum.[*](part0021.html#filepos1119094)
  
  
  It occurred to new employee Rudolph Scattering about once every minute that