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Re:I Miss Terry Pratchett by pajtai on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:01PM (#48249738)
"Sir Terry Pratchett, who knew more about furniture than most," makes perfect sense if you look at the previous paragraph, which contains:

"... all memories are a kind of furniture in the head ..."

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Re:I Miss Terry Pratchett by simonw on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:07PM (#48249786)
How does that sentence support the idea that he knew "more about furniture than most"?

The bit you quote isn't even something he said! In the original post[1] it was assigned to "certain very old and very tired philosophers", but that's now been edited to just being credited as "a theory, not necessarily a really good theory".

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20260523124615/https://www.mahl....

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