So I say to you, Give me the mortal world, and go and make your better one. Imo was angry and said:Who are you to question me? And Locaha said: I am a part of you, as are all things. I will rub it in my hands and make a better one. Still Imo was not satisfied, and he said: I have been like a child playing in the sand.This is a flawed world. Soon the people filled all the lands and were hungry, so Imo took some of the night and rubbed it in his hands and made Locaha, the god of death. They were clever but they could not swim all day, so Imo dug some more clay and rubbed it in his hands and baked it in the fire of his fishing camp, and that was how the land was made. So he took the souls of some dolphins, who at least had learned to speak, and he mixed them with clay and rubbed them in his hands and changed their shape and they became people. After that he made some fish, but they were stupid and lazy. So he spat in his hands and rubbed them together and made a ball of sea. Mo set out one day to catch some fish, but there was no sea.There was nothing but Imo.
H O W I M O M A D E T H E W O R L D, I N T H E T I M E W H E N T H I N G S W E R E O T H E RW I S E A N D T H E M O O N WA S D I F F E R E N T Mau's ancestors have something to teach us all.It Takes a Lifetime to Learn How to Die 187Ībout the Author Other Books by Terry Pratchett Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher Other survivors start to arrive to take refuge on the island they all call the Nation and then raiders accompanied by murderous mutineers from the Sweet Judy.Together, Mau and Daphne discover some remarkable things - including how to milk a pig and why spitting in beer is a good thing - and start to forge a new Nation.As can be expected from Terry Pratchett, the master story-teller, this new children's novel is both witty and wise, encompassing themes of death and nationhood, while being extremely funny. She's certain her father, distant cousin of the Royal family, will come and rescue her but it seems, for now, all she has for company is the boy and the foul-mouthed ship's parrot.As it happens, they are not alone for long. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird and gives him a stick which can make fire.Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. He's also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. Brilliantly funny novel from the master story-teller and creator of Discworld.Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. Washed up on the shores of a remote island, two kids from cultures half a world apart have to learn to get along and survive.
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