Should an author’s dying wish be honored? 

Yes! I first thought she was going to say something like _and after they steamrolled them they send it to a publisher and the first book will come out next june, or something like that_ 😂

​@@jackwriter1908 ngl I too thought that was exactly what she was going to say. Glad that's not the case tho.

Same XD

I’m glad I’m not the only one! 😂

Me too. Luddites united

When I wanted to buy the book I specifically found a copy without the sexualized cover, it's so sickening 😒

Yep. "I want pure colors, melting clouds, accurately drawn details, a sunburst above a receding road with the light reflected in furrows and ruts, after rain. And no girls."

I recall man carrying thing did a video on this and how his favorite cover was the one with a regular creepy looking dude on the front. And it works way better for the book.

haha yeah and it's all bc of the stanley kubrick movie adaptation. fuck him lol

As it turns out that wasn't out of a wish not to sexualise Dolores or whatever girl may be in the picture but rather because at the time that lolita was published pictures on novels had a negative connotation of being lower quality fiction like pulp detective novels, and Nabokov wanted people to respect Lolita as literature. During his later life he was perfectly fine with the pictures on the covers, in fact there's a video i saw a while back where he talks about how much he likes one particular cover that features a picture of a young girl.

Rob actually is a super real one. Their relationship was extremely touching and he’s basically family to the Pratchetts to this day.

Wow, sorry you learned about it this way. He passed in 2015.

⁠bummer. Just got into Discworld books earlier this year

@@votch2798 Jealous.

@@votch2798 its fine you still have plenty of reading material for a while yet

Kafka made work about being a better person both mentally and physically, but his unfinished work was written with the interpretation of his sister which made him seem like a literal Nazi, and the Nazis then read the rewritten unfinished work and loved it

Yeah, same. I might burn the first draft of my first novel because it is EMBARASSING

Yeah, especially the editing thing. Personally, I'd be fine with my unfinished nonsense to be published, but as soon as you start making changes, don't even bother crediting me except as the inspiration. If I can't have my fucked up little world as it is, then go make your own.

@@ibraheemshuaib8954 You must be thinking of Nietzsche.

@@jackiew6598 I think I am, Probably.

There's also "A stroke of the pen" which collects a bunch of short stories believed to be his but published under pseudonyms before he made a name for himself

Quality of discworld books deteriorated rapidly in the end. No subtleties, on the nose preaching. Unseen Academicals was borderline trash to the point i didnt bother to buy the railway one that i dgaf to remember the title of. We're better off without those books imo.

​@@gruby970You didn't miss anything. The railway one read like really bad fanfic. But the one that came after it, Shepherd's Crown, was actually pretty good, and was a fitting end to it all. It was far from great, but worth reading.

there were no books. its an illusion. its only a book once the author publishes it. and lets assume someone takes the notes and makes a book out of it, its not the book you wanted.

@@gruby970 Unseen Academicals is alright, certainly not the pinnacle of his form but I'd honestly put it above one or two of his earlier works (The Last Hero in mind). Snuff & Raising Steam? Those are *rough*, you can clearly tell where several characters are merging into one as Sir Terry simply forgets who does what and the rules for each of them. Vetinari in particular becomes someone else entirely in the final book as Pratchett simply forgets how to write him - it hurts too much to read knowing how much Pratchett fought for his own mind in his latter days. What a marvel of an author he was.

I don't actually expect a good answer but, Why? Even using theology I cant come to a path that makes you controlling anything after your dead valid, other then X person is pharaoh and thus a god, so you cant have it, but dead religions are dead so... I really don't get it. I get why HE would want it, pride, vanity, shame, whatever. But why he wishes SHOULD actually be respected? IDK...

@@mesmichael Why shouldn't they? The works were unfinished and the person whose name they would be published under had expressed clearly that he would not want the works to go to publishing as they were. I don't think its always a moral imperative to honor the wishes of the dead but these were people close to him and he asked them for a favor regarding his personal work and clearly they felt that it was honoring their own relationships with him to follow those wishes.

​@@mesmichaelWe respect the wishes of the dead for the sake living. You're still alive when you make those requests, and knowing your wishes will be honored can provide comfort. I ask you to destroy my hard drive when I die. If I don't trust you'll do that, it will cause me distress right now while I'm still alive.

⁠@@mesmichaelbecause terry pratchett was a fucking incredible human being, and he deserves to be respected in death as such. And as the person above me mentioned, his unfinished works were unfinished - if they were in a state he wanted them to be seen in he would have published them himself. Why would you want anything other than an author’s best work that they were proud of and wanted to share?

​@@mesmichael because it's rude not to honour a dead persons wishes, given that it doesn't involve harming others.

It happens way too much. It sucks because you know if the author had a chance to finish it it would be a masterpiece, instead they are choosing to publish rough drafts.

That sounds like a scene from Hundred Years of Solitide

@@oz_jones it does, doesn’t it!? Much like Aurelio’s father, I like to think that Marquez once just ventured his feeble mind too far into one of his own books and couldn’t find his way back home.

Well, who knows, it says till august, and might magically vanish in September, like the cheating woman it's about 😮

do you mean by account of his sons? on account sounds like they've done something to him

On thé one hand yes. On thé other have you read Joyce’s letters to his wife? I just wish we had her replies.

@@adorabell4253that doesn’t make it any less bad

To anyone who's going to say they're already dead: true, but their friends and family might not be

​@@SwampyBoy476also haiiii rain world person :D

@@Sepi-chu_loves_moths hi cherry

Well, the Hunchback didn't precisely turn his novel into a musical, it used the characters and a handful of selected plotpoints to turn it into something that had little to do with Hugo's actual narrative, let alone the point he was making...

@@ohauss true, which might have made him even more disappointed if he'd lived to see it 😁

Sounds like a loophole to me. Kinda based,honestly

He did write songs into Les Miserables, one or two

@@ohauss Which is likely why he didn't want them to be made into musicals.

Thank you writing this. I 100000000% love that you've spoken my mind.

I agree. For me it was Making Money where I felt the change in his work. I don't know if this is because of the illness or he had help with the writing process but it was the first of his books I could put down and not pick up again for long periods of time. I also wonder how much help he had to finish Raising Steam. I started to read the novel but it seemed like such a different voice I had to abandon it. I'm was torn about reading The Shepard's Crown. I love the Tiffany books and where it ended with I Shall Wear Midnight would be fine. But I have to know what happens to Tiff. From what I have read of the Shepard's Crown so far still feels like Sir Terry's voice. I don't want to spoil the book for anyone but I had to take a break from reading it as chapter four hits very hard. I do wonder if the Tiffany books were written earlier and the publications delayed by the publishers. As they don't seem to have suffered the same fate as Making Money, UA, Snuff and Raising Steam. I miss Sir Terry's writing and I can't believe he's been gone almost ten years now. I think I will go and reread Interesting Times or Thief of Time, two of my favourites.

I'm just here in the corner, liking his last few books just as much as the first few. 😭😭😭

This makes me wonder if this distespect of last wishes makes it difficult for other authors suffering from mental deterioration from indulging in their hobby of writing FOR THEMSELVES. Like publishing and having an audience isn't all writings about it's also creative expression. Making someone already struggling with illness and end of life that someone will air their creative outlet to criticisms of the world is soooo cruel.

I enjoyed Unseen but 100% agree with what youre saying.

Is it Qinni? Edit: wrote the name wrong

qinni art... i think about her all the time. it's so sad. she made such beautiful art and she was taken from the world way too soon. what that company did was pure evil. may she rest in peace

It was also stolen and sold as NFTs and the crypto bros just say it was alright because she was dead so it was somehow fair game and public property 🤢 like no the rights still belongs to her family and even without that's shits gross and legally and ethically wrong

If you haven't already, read the last Discworld book, The Shepherd's Crown... It's probably the best way the series could have ended...

Honestly, I think it;s not very good to honour these kind of wishes though. It's part of the world's heritage. Those novels ought to have been saved and properly archived.

​@@GaioSonase im glad he got his wish, and i'm a discworld fan.

If Chopin's last wishes were honored, we'd have been deprived of some lovely pieces (the Fantaisie Impromptu, for example).

@@angreagach ...and? We would be unaware and it would be fine. Anything can be of artistic or historical value to someone. Does that mean when we die, everything we leave behind ought to be made publicly accessible - no matter how little the person who made it wished it'd be made public? If you think so - do you think we should start while they're alive? Because suppose he wrote some more great music he burned while alive - was that an equally awful thing? If so, we should mandate everyone archive their entire life for the public and make it instantly accessible to everyone. Yes, im taking it to an extreme, but its because i think its effective to examine edge cases in discussions about principles.

@@Lleanlleawrg what a person does while alive is their own matter, as much of a shame as it may be. Once the person is dead, they cease to exist and frankly so do any of their wishes.

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO COMMENT THIS LOL

Oh oops I commented the same before seeing this 😂😂😂

The man wanted the propaganda he'd paid for, can't really blame him for that.

Look at y'all, using your classics education for good

Imperial Domain

While Neil Gaimans writing never really spoke to me, as a fellow human being he have earned my respect.

A wish that he directly gave to neil gaiman no less.

@@LorenScott-ub2qb and which Neil Gaiman made sure he carried out

I wish Neil didn't completely ruin the show in its second season. It was fantastic. Until they had to "push the message" and suddenly the main characters are romantically involved and every other character is an acronym gang member

@@3choblast3r4 ooh someone's a little mad that the book had romantic tension but the first season downplayed it and you were okay with that because you could ignore it but then they address it and suddenly everything's gay? boohoo

And also because BBC decided to just undermine the show he'd been working on and sell the rights to BBC america.

What about Wheel of Time? Robert Jordan asked his widow Harriet to choose someone to finish it, and she selected Brandon Sanderson

@@LuminousArc92 did he just edit what was already written though? Cuz writing new things is something I'm more okay with oddly enough. Haven't read wot so can't speak about it more than that

@triplestaff unclear. Jordan had some scenes already written out (some were earlier scenes some were later scenes they werent in an order) and I think they were left in tact save for any editing, which Harriet was Jordan's editor and wife. Otherwise he'd left notes of the plot and character beats to be hit

@@LuminousArc92 so his actual writing wasn't really changed, which seems a lot like the J.R.R and Christopher situation, so that's fine in my opinion. As for Sandersons writing I'm assuming that's just fleshing out the already made story beats, which seems somewhat reasonable to me. Though personally I still prefer how Christopher Tolkien didn't flesh out things more than what was already written by his dad.

I don’t know I always felt Christopher was just selling out the notes to keep control of the legacy

It's bittersweet. I would LOVE more Pratchett novels. But on the other hand....I've read his later novels. They certainly show his mental decline. Which is why I think this is for the best. Not just because his wish was honoured, but also because it might've sullied his legacy.

Yeah that probably played a large part in it, he was very aware that his cognitive function was in the decline and he did his best to work around that. He apparently got very involved in the modding of a specific video game(that I can't recall the name of) because the community had made mods that could remind him of things he was meant to be doing so he could continue to enjoy playing it.

@@ashrowan2143 Oblivion I think. One of the mod authors had created a function on their character that could be asked to lead the player out of dungeons - and maybe even to specific towns.

Rihanna never helped Terry write his books, it was Rob, the assistant, who typed and Philippa Dickinson, his editor and friend, who helped tie the scenes together in a sensible manner.

His assistant, Rob Wilkins, is to the best of my knowledge a man.

@@c.johnson8981 They're probably thinking of Rhianna, who also had a strong hand in making sure her father's wishes were honored.

@@fnsmike I didn't know Terry was Rhianna's dad. They definitely don't look a lot alike

​@@thebeardedastronomerDon't give up the day job. Unless the day job is "self - deluding 'comedian' ", in which case, FOR GOD'S SAKE, PLEASE GIVE UP THE DAY JOB.

Sounds like book burning to me

Nah I'm pretty sure "If I die destroy everything so it's not possible to innovate on my work or help my family flourish further after my death" is a pretty selfish thing to do

@@EpicWinNoob That's an enormous sense of entitlement you have about other people's work, their time, their estate, their legacy. He owed us NOTHING yet he gave us entire worlds. And you have the audacity to call him selfish? Are you a family member or colleague of his that feels slighted in some way?

@@FeralfoundryHe didn’t give, he sold. There was no charity involved

@@dylanswift5185 Should he have lived in a barrel and begged for the honor of having his work appropriated? You paid to be entertained by those books he wrote. If you are not entertained, move on. You paid for a story he wrote, not his body, mind or legacy. You do not own any part of his life beyond the words on those pages. Artists share moments, thoughts. Words, songs etc- they do not owe anyone their life.

@@dylanswift5185 Then you paid for what you got. Be content or don't, but he doesn't owe you forever and everything because you bought copies of the books he wrote.

Contrarianism ftw

the perks of being late to a post is that all i see are people agreeing with the decision uwu

So are you saying they shouldn’t have honored his wishes? Because that seems to fit that quote there.

@@Dusty_B I guess what OP is saying is "Sir Terry was damn right to order the posthumous destruction of the hard drives. Show them buggers who's boss."

This is my personal opinion so feel free to disagree, but I think above a certain skill level your work doesnt belong to you anymore, it becomes a treasure for all of humanity. Imagine if Da Vinci, Monet or Mozart ordered all their work to be destroyed in their last will. It would be a incredible loss to humanity. Also there are last wishes that cannot be respected, like "kill my wife if she marries again" or something alike, where the rights of others are touched, and this is exactly what I think is the work of some world class authors, poets, composers etc. Their work has inspired so many others that I think it is kind of theft to not have it publicised

@@propagandalf123 absolutely agree to disagree I'm afraid. There's a huge difference, like a wide gaping chasm, between "commit murder in my memory" and "please destroy/do not release my unpublished work after I die." besides which, who would even get to decide what this hypothetical "skill level" looks like, and where/when/according to what criteria?

@@fabulousphoenixboy If it was me, and know that I'm dying soon, I would just take all of my unfinished work and destroy it my self

I am horrified by people who would destroy Kafka's work, giving up to his depression. It's almost as if mentally insane, demented or otherwise disturbed people are literally self-destructive.

​@@KasumiRINAas a writer struggling with depression and other mental health conditions, your ableism is showing. A mentally ill artist still has legal and moral ownership of their work. If I die, my unpublished work doesn't suddenly belong to everyone & their uncle just because of my mental health struggles, jfc

In case you didn't know, Rhianna Pratchett wrote "Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch."

Exactly. Amen to this.

There was a Watch TV Series With Questionable Quality 😅

@@Hanmacx I did see it. I also kinda enjoyed it, but only by treating it as its own thing. It sadly wasn't that remarkable.

@@IamMeHere2See i would loved to have a City Watch TV series It doesn't even need to follow one of the books, it just needed to feel in the right setting But they needed to put "politics" into the show 🙄 😒

His biography (which TP contributed to when he was alive, but was 90% written by his assistant) is incredibly sad. Near the end he could write good scenes, like Xs death in Shepherds Crown, but his brain couldn't hold them all in his head and join them up into a story like it used to. So his assistant ended up "suggesting" how to join scenes together etc, which made the books coherent, but it also meant they never quite felt like proper Pratchett

@@cshaffrey3438that’s probably a big reason why they followed his wishes. A lot do times things are published because they flesh out a creator’s work. Publishing disjointed scenes would just be to the detriment of the whole canon and not do anything for Pratchett’s legacy.

I quite liked Snuff and Raising Steam. Actually, I thought his watch books became stronger as they continued, became more sure of what they wanted to be as something unto themselves, rather than thinly veiled parody.

I actually loved The Shepherd's Crown. It did feel different; it was a send-off in more ways than one. 🥲

Would this be James Barry? Unfortunately, he isn't alone in this. It is often that historical trans people are only known about because their last wishes were disrespected. Often they are post-humously sensationalized and misgendered (I've especially seen a trend with historical trans men to be counted among female figures, even if said people expressed publically and privately that they were not, but this might just be on account of myself being transmasc and having biases in what I research), which is really sad to see.

@@hellobees3320 yes! I'm unfortunately very bad with names, but Dr Barry's story breaks my heart. I especially hate when so called 'feminists' coopt historical transmen as being 'feminist icons' or 'lesbian icons', because they can't fathom a world in which a woman might want to be a man for the sake of being a man, & not because of privilege. The fear that comes with being a closeted trans person is no privilege, & these people aren't 'feminist icons' because you never would have known that they were born female if not for the gross negligence of the coronary staff!

Hey, this is very nitpicky and I am sorry for being like this, but some people view “transman” or “transwoman” as bad to say as it sounds like you aren’t calling them a real man or woman. A lot of TERFs don’t add a space either. Many people prefer trans man cause it’s just a label to describe a man

@@uhoh6092 I am a transman. I won't call you that if you don't want to, but I AM a transman myself, & I don't take kindly to people constantly correcting me on my OWN IDENTITY.

Hey, another trans man here, @booksandbuns! I separate the two words because that's just basic grammar. You wouldn't say "bluerug". Also, considering that Dr. Barry wished to not be outed as trans, I would assume that he wouldn't take kindly to someone minimizing (in the eyes of many, including me) his identity as a man by tacking on "trans" all the time. Trans is an adjective, a word to describe something. In the phrase trans man, the adjective "trans" is describing a characteristic of the noun "man"

And the world would be a poorer place without it. This is why I am so torn on this. On the one hand, you'd like to respect the author's wishes (at least immediately on death... I'm ignoring here works passed into the public domain), but on the other hand, the work could enrich the corpus. TBF in Virgil's case didn't Augustus technically own the work under the law of the time, since he commissioned it?

​@@professorhaystacks6606same thing with Kafka, he wanted everything he had done to be hidden. That wasnt obeyed, and the world is better for it.

The Aeneid is a poem not a novel

@@generalgrievous2202 Really? Kafka comedy is so insensitive and unfunny. His papers SHOULD’VE NEVER BEEN published!

Probably true in more than 90% of cases. But I think sometimes the work living on is more important than the sentiment of a dead author, or the greed of the bereaved. For example....I don't think that Anne Frank would have ever shared her diary had she survived Auschwitz

And it’s the root of evil to don’t forget that

@@SomebodyPerfectlyto be fair, most people wouldn’t want their diaries shared. She had so much personal stuff in there. Imagine if she had been alive when it was shared, she would have been so upset.

Kafka was a bit of an edge case since he did have a ridiculous amount of anxiety and depressive signs in both how he lived, how he viewed his own work and the work itself So his was less a moment thing more he thought they were awful buy they really weren't

​@balladsnowfox7714 irrelevant

Remember these things are also there jobs, if they are published after their death they aren't gonna be getting any money at all nor it will likely go to any family they want it to go too

@@lexibeard4404it’s not the money-it’s the lack of creative control. An edited manuscript can be drastically different from a work in progress or a first draft. If you fear dying before you see the whole project through, you are gonna be vulnerable to staining your legacy with shoddy final books you never truly “wrote”, at least not to completion. Everyone likes the sausage, but not everyone understands the messy process behind it and these final books usually have a lot of pig’s blood so to speak.

​@@887frodopig's blood?

Yeah, I remember many cases of the family deleting fanfics when the author died. It make me so sad. I have wrote in some places I don't want anything erasured.

Honestly, I’m a writer too, and my hope is to find someone I trust to understand my visions and ask them to complete any of my unfinished work if I pass. Hopefully I’d have some knowledge I was dying so I could outline everything beforehand so it could be as close to what I would have written as possible. I get why other writers would feel differently, but I couldn’t bear for my work to die with me like that!

Oh boy we're going to see JK Rowling's search history after she shuffles off the mortal coil, aren't we?

​@AdrianColley hopefully not.

I'm pretty sure for most people, their search history and their art are very closely linked.

I still can't read Shepards Crown. I've opened it, read the dedication, cried and ugh.

That's an astonishingly good point.

That’s not how copyright works

@@irrelevantcheese8623 I know, that's why I used the word "Should"

I completely agree.

He also infamously was an early adopter of the home computing fad. I believe that he was also involved in the Discworld PC Game (the reason that I still own my 386). 😁

*Woman... It was his daughter...

@@BaronSengir1008 No it wasn't, it was Rob Wilkins, his business manager and former assistant.

Why? Some of the most important historical documents are personal accounts. So I guess you are judging Anne Frank's father for publishing her diary, too?

​@@JuMiKu If she had asked him or anybody else *NOT* to do it they still did, then yeah its disgusting.

@@POP-nm1ix Do you think any young teen would want the world to read her diary? Have you read that book? Additionally her dad took some things out, but that still means he read it all. Would you have wanted your father to read your most private thoughts at that age? Probably not. However, very likely, if she had survived, she would have recognized the importance of her work years later. The stupidity of destruction is that you can never change your mind and adhering to a nonsensical thought at the end of someone's life means that you think they had always been that way and would never change either.

@@eszemaszeszed Eeh I dunno, depends when it turns from "embarrasing" to "history". People can take anything of mine they like 100 years after I die. Shame it's no use.

They're right.

Cause every artist will have a negative opinion of their own work even if it’s objectively good. So what ever he had that was unpublished he may not have liked but it could have been good so wanting it destroyed anyway is ridiculous.

Why do you believe you’re obligated to his works?

Art itself is a being, separate from the artist. An artist asking for their art to be destroyed is like a parent asking for their child to be unalived. Just because you created it, doesn't mean you have the right to do anything with it. Yes, the artist has rights that should be respected, but so does the art.

@@declaringpond2276 exactly man couldn’t have said it better myself.

there is more to this than just art. People are entitled to examine the historical record. Once a person is dead they are part of history that also includes their artistic and personal records.

You are part of the new trend where you sanctimoniously yammer on and whine about things in an echo chamber with people who agree with you and act like you’re God’s gift to the world for enlightening us with the correct view of everything. “I will repeat” you must’ve thought that sounded badass instead of the pathetic one-liner attempt it comes off as. Anyway I’m devastated to have lost the approval of “Delunkleus”, the arbiter of maturity. What will I ever do?

I mean we don't know which works of art will be needed in the future, so it is best to preserve as many of them as we can the best we can. I definitely don't think the unfinished works should be repackaged and soild for a profit.

Wow someone is unnecessarily angry, listen friend, you may think you have a point, you may even think your rant, cause that’s all this really is, is supposed to what? Be this profound bit of wisdom? No no it’s just you being mean and stupid, good day…

Anime is actually more for adults than children, there's nothing wrong with an adult using it for a picture. Maybe you should just shut up and get over yourself.

Why does it upset you ? (Gen question)

Real, The archeologists are all yay look what I found by disturbing this persons resting place until they unearth something they shouldn't have.

​@@justaurora01the curse of ra

A significant amounts of influential mathematics and philosophy. That’s a good start

Yeah, I'm still reading the Aenied. Sorry, Virgil 🤷‍♂️

@@dylanswift5185 math and science is one thing but why entertainment it gives us nothing truly beneficial for progress why defile someone's corpse for a few hours of joy

@@dylanswift5185 math and science is one thing but why entertainment it gives us nothing truly beneficial for progress why defile someone's corpse for a few hours of joy

Why would you want to boycott Kafka

He was probaly in a bad mental state when he was dying and it's very disappointing that they went through with it

One must consider that an unfinished work is exactly that: unfinished. A living author who loves and respects the craft would never publish a work before it's time, and a particularly empassioned author would not want that to happen after their death.

You would want your private letters to someone to get published??

he had alzheimer's, and his last works were affected by its progression. who would want to be remembered for what they wrote when they were dying from a terrible disease like that? not to mention, even if someone finished writing his works, it wouldn't end how he wanted. imagine dying before finishing a painting, and some person decides to finish it and it turns out completely different than what you intended? what if they entirely misinterpret your intentions and the meaning of the piece? it's the same with writing.

I think it may be because they just don't want to publish their drafts. I have plenty of first drafts that were okay, but weren’t the type of story I wanted to tell. So I had to delete some of them and go in a completely different direction. The editing stage is very important for a lot of people, and he may not want people to read what he considers "shitty wips" Heck, there are story concepts I'm really proud of, but I'd hate for people to publish my unfinished drafts.

They didn’t destroy her poems, just heavily edited them for publication. She also never consented to their publication. While it’s not clear if she asked they be destroyed (she did ask that some correspondence was and it was, but I’ve read conflicting sources on whether she also wanted the rest of her poems destroyed) it is probable she would be very unhappy by the ways her work was edited and people profited off of it.

@@larastroud6644 I would argue that the heavy editing is in fact, destruction of the original. But I suppose I should’ve been more clear. It is accurate that she never expressed any wish for her poems to be published, and that she would probably be pretty disappointed in what was published.

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett.

Greed is a sin that you must overcome

@@ktg3811 really, mate? Maybe you would like to check the meaning of "hyperbole". 😄 Besides, what is a sin? I know what evil is - treating people as things, for example 😉 In the eyes of Anoia not having drawers to rattle may be a sin, but Blind Io couldn't care less about your kitchen furniture. 😁

I am on the fence personally. I don't think Pratchett was wrong and cool that his wishes were respected but well there is something to be said about preserving art as much as possible. Then there is the personal letters which can serve as a window to a time and place removed from the period of when someone is reading them.