Herbert James Draper Day and the Dawnstar

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What? A proper ceremony and everything?”
“Yes!”
“Hmm.” Ridcully stroked his beard. “You sure?”
“Certain, Archchancellor.”
“My word! I never knew that.”
Ponder felt he was getting somewhere.
“So—“
“Yes?”
“Why don’t I remember it?”
Ponder had been ready for this.
““Is he? Huh! You’d think I’d think of me, wouldn’t you?
What a bastard!”
It wasn’t that Ridcully was stupid. Truly stupid wizards have the life expectancy of a glass hammer. He had quite a powerful intellect, but it was powerful like a locomotive, and ran on rails and was therefore almost impossible to steer.
There are indeed such things as parallel universes, although Because the you in the other universe is different from the you here,” he said. “It was a different you that got mar-ried. He’s probably settled down somewhere. He’s probably a great-grandad by now.”“He never writes, I know that,” said Ridcully “And the bastard never invited me to the wedding.”l Ponder was one hundred percent wrong about this. 93Terry Pratchett“Who?”“Him.”“But he’s you!”