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NEWSFLASH: the end of an era
Aug. 31st, 2017 10:07 pmThose unfinished stories will remain unfinished...
@terryandrob posted on https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/901028525200879616/photo/1:
About to fulfill my obligation to Terry @SalisburyMuseum @Wiltshire_flo
And some of the many replies:
@Perdita_X_Nitt
And the little hard drive looked into the Blue Screen of Death's eyes and heard, in a resonant, deep voice, "CTRL, ALT, DELETE."
@bellinghwoman
He said back in the '90s that after his death, all trace of any works in progress should be destroyed. Rob is keeping the promise.
@teef2
Is the Death of hard drives a paperclip with a scythe?
@thisispoki
That's a very serious overreaction to "Please delete my browser history"!
@DWCGArchive
Should have put them in the firebox and melted them down completely and made them into a sword....
@telent_net
'Tough shit, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job!' -- pterry
Pat Harkin @dwauctioneer
[Zooms in] let's see, that's 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.....
@wolverinebruise
I raise a glass to Rob, Terry and the unknown stories.
@jonmcbee
For me it's the final nail in the realisation we'll never get new Pratchett stories :/
@StuartVisick
Sometimes a promise is hard to keep, but if that's what Terry wanted we have to respect it.
At least he will be forever in our hearts.
@sarkencullen
A very Terry way to do it. We are with you in spirit x
@joannasephine
Beautiful day for it - I hope you can enjoy a brandy in his honour afterwards
@dannychimp
As sad as this makes me, it has to happen. So happy hard drive flattening.
@DannyRosamond
Obligate away sir
Peter Parker @Parkeringshus
That is a serious crime and you know it, watch out for the Grags. drop it down a well so that someone can talk chicken to it in the future.
@Nannymcsmurf
Bless you for doing exactly what STP asked of you! You've done the Creator proud. Got me right in the feels , damn Onion Fairy! 😍 xx
@buddy_trustlove
Carried out with style. Obligation well executed.
...and the official iconograph, by Rob Wilkins:
Before: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIEYpkvXUAMOStU.jpg
After: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIEgisCXYAAOwY6.jpg
In the Guardian:
"The unfinished books of Sir Terry Pratchett have been destroyed by a steamroller, following the late fantasy novelist’s wishes. Pratchett’s hard drive was crushed by a vintage John Fowler & Co steamroller named Lord Jericho at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, ahead of the opening of a new exhibition about the author’s life and work... On Friday, Rob Wilkins, who manages the Pratchett estate, tweeted from an official Twitter account that he was 'about to fulfil my obligation to Terry' along with a picture of an intact computer hard drive – following up with a tweet that showed the hard drive in pieces. The symbolism of the moment, which captured something of Pratchett’s unique sense of humour, was not lost on fans, who responded on Twitter with a wry melancholy, though some people expressed surprise that the author – who had previously discussed churning through computer hardware at a rapid rate – would have stored his unfinished work on an apparently older model of hard drive..."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/30/terry-pratchett-unfinished-novels-destroyed-streamroller
On the BBC news website:
"Richard Henry, curator of Salisbury Museum, said: 'The steamroller totally annihilated the stone blocks underneath but the hard drive survived better than expected so we put it in a stone crusher afterwards which I think probably finally did it in'. He said Pratchett did not want his unpublished works to be completed by someone else and released. He added: 'It's something you've got to follow, and it's really nice that they have followed his requests so specifically. It's surprisingly difficult to find somebody to run over a hard drive with a steamroller. I think a few people thought we were kidding when I first started putting out feelers to see if it was possible or not.' The pieces of the hard drive will go on display in the Terry Pratchett: His World Exhibition at the museum on 16 September."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-41093066
@terryandrob posted on https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/901028525200879616/photo/1:
About to fulfill my obligation to Terry @SalisburyMuseum @Wiltshire_flo
And some of the many replies:
@Perdita_X_Nitt
And the little hard drive looked into the Blue Screen of Death's eyes and heard, in a resonant, deep voice, "CTRL, ALT, DELETE."
@bellinghwoman
He said back in the '90s that after his death, all trace of any works in progress should be destroyed. Rob is keeping the promise.
@teef2
Is the Death of hard drives a paperclip with a scythe?
@thisispoki
That's a very serious overreaction to "Please delete my browser history"!
@DWCGArchive
Should have put them in the firebox and melted them down completely and made them into a sword....
@telent_net
'Tough shit, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job!' -- pterry
Pat Harkin @dwauctioneer
[Zooms in] let's see, that's 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.....
@wolverinebruise
I raise a glass to Rob, Terry and the unknown stories.
@jonmcbee
For me it's the final nail in the realisation we'll never get new Pratchett stories :/
@StuartVisick
Sometimes a promise is hard to keep, but if that's what Terry wanted we have to respect it.
At least he will be forever in our hearts.
@sarkencullen
A very Terry way to do it. We are with you in spirit x
@joannasephine
Beautiful day for it - I hope you can enjoy a brandy in his honour afterwards
@dannychimp
As sad as this makes me, it has to happen. So happy hard drive flattening.
@DannyRosamond
Obligate away sir
Peter Parker @Parkeringshus
That is a serious crime and you know it, watch out for the Grags. drop it down a well so that someone can talk chicken to it in the future.
@Nannymcsmurf
Bless you for doing exactly what STP asked of you! You've done the Creator proud. Got me right in the feels , damn Onion Fairy! 😍 xx
@buddy_trustlove
Carried out with style. Obligation well executed.
...and the official iconograph, by Rob Wilkins:
Before: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIEYpkvXUAMOStU.jpg
After: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIEgisCXYAAOwY6.jpg
In the Guardian:
"The unfinished books of Sir Terry Pratchett have been destroyed by a steamroller, following the late fantasy novelist’s wishes. Pratchett’s hard drive was crushed by a vintage John Fowler & Co steamroller named Lord Jericho at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, ahead of the opening of a new exhibition about the author’s life and work... On Friday, Rob Wilkins, who manages the Pratchett estate, tweeted from an official Twitter account that he was 'about to fulfil my obligation to Terry' along with a picture of an intact computer hard drive – following up with a tweet that showed the hard drive in pieces. The symbolism of the moment, which captured something of Pratchett’s unique sense of humour, was not lost on fans, who responded on Twitter with a wry melancholy, though some people expressed surprise that the author – who had previously discussed churning through computer hardware at a rapid rate – would have stored his unfinished work on an apparently older model of hard drive..."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/30/terry-pratchett-unfinished-novels-destroyed-streamroller
On the BBC news website:
"Richard Henry, curator of Salisbury Museum, said: 'The steamroller totally annihilated the stone blocks underneath but the hard drive survived better than expected so we put it in a stone crusher afterwards which I think probably finally did it in'. He said Pratchett did not want his unpublished works to be completed by someone else and released. He added: 'It's something you've got to follow, and it's really nice that they have followed his requests so specifically. It's surprisingly difficult to find somebody to run over a hard drive with a steamroller. I think a few people thought we were kidding when I first started putting out feelers to see if it was possible or not.' The pieces of the hard drive will go on display in the Terry Pratchett: His World Exhibition at the museum on 16 September."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-41093066
