Ο Terry κι εμείς

Εδώ και λίγο καιρό, ακούγονταν φήμες ότι ο Terry Pratchett (Discworld etc) είχε υποστεί εγκεφαλικό.

Για να καθησυχάσει όλους εμάς, έγραψε το παρακάτω κειμενάκι, το οποίο λάβαμε μέσω του Discworld Monthly, του σχετικού newsletter:

"Various people have been enquiring about my health and so this, short of jokes like "at last I can't remember the 60's, so I was there" is how we think the story goes...
As far as we can tell, I had a minor stroke about two years ago. I didn't know it at the time. I was working hard on Wintersmith and then immediately on Making Money and the fact that my typing seemed more erratic than usual I put down to hard work and, not to put too finer point on it, old age creeping on. It was only a couple of months ago that I was thinking about having an MRI scan, mostly because I had just typed a sentence that I couldn't understand!
It appears to have been "one of those things". Frankly, over the years I have suffered from "those things" so often that I might as well check into the Royal Things hospital. The only other effect seems to be slightly more tiredness and less mental alertness at the end of the day.
And that's it. I was astonished to get through the six hour twenty-five minutes signing at Forbidden Planet in London the other week and still be in a shape to go out for a business dinner afterwards, especially since my previous best time of five hours fifty-eight minutes left me hallucinating. Clearly adrenalin is the best medicine. In the longer term, though, there really is going to have to be a reduction in touring. What I will add, though, is that all current commitments including the Australian tour, the UK Discworld Convention next year and the proposed US Discworld Convention in 2009 will be honoured, provided my health is no worse than it is now.
Terry Pratchett"

Σχετική συνέντευξη μπορείτε να βρείτε και στην Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=490576&in_page_id=1774

Για όποιον λοιπόν ενδιαφέρεται, το Discworld Convention τον Αύγουστο του 2008 στην Αγγλία, μπορεί να είναι μια από τις τελευταίες μας ευκαιρίες να δούμε από κοντά τον Terry πριν αποφασίσει ότι όλα αυτά τον παραζαλίζουν και να κάτσει σπίτι του να γράφει τα επόμενα βιβλία που θα λατρέψουμε.

Εγώ ευελπιστώ να είμαι εκεί (με ή χωρίς κόκκινο βρακί) και αρκετά βιβλία για υπογραφή! Πληροφορίες για τη συμμετοχή βρίσκονται εδώ: http://www.dwcon.org/