Unknown Artist The SunFlowers

Unknown Artist The SunFlowersSalvador Dali Portrait of the Cellist Ricard PichotSalvador Dali Figure on the RocksSalvador Dali Dali Nude in Contemplation Before the Five Regular Bodies
Mention has already been made of an attempt to inject a little honesty into reporting on the Disc, and how poets and bards were banned on pain of – well, pain – from going on about babbling brooks and rosy-fingered dawn and could only say, for example, that a face had launched a thousand ships if they were able to produce certified , and it was absolutely dark.
It occurred to Rincewind that something had gone wrong.
Then he saw the faint blue tracery in front of him.
He was inside the Octavo again. He wondered what would happen if anyone opened the book; would dockyard accounts.And therefore, out of a passing respect for this tradition, it will not be said of Rincewind and Twoflower that they became an ice-blue sinewave arcing through the dark imensions, or that there was a sound like the twanging of a monstrous tusk, or that their lives passed in front of their eyes (Rincewind had in any case seen his in front of his eyes so many times that he could sleep through the boring bits) or that the universe dropped on them like a large jelly.It will be said, because experiment has proven it to be true, that there was a noise like a wooden ruler being struck heavily with a C sharp tuning fork, possibly B flat, and a sudden sensation of absolute stillness.This was because they were absolutely still