![]() ![]() First came the little crawling creatures that make their dwellings in burrows and high in the hairs. “Then came the dust, which fell upon the Carpet, drifting among the hairs, taking root in the deep shadows … From the dust the Carpet wove us all. It was young in those days,” writes Pratchett. Then came the Carpet, which covered the flatness. “In the beginning … there was nothing but endless flatness. He was absolutely fascinated by a small, flat world.” They couldn’t wield needles as weapons they would be ginormous to them. ![]() He was thinking about this as a nano world. He was noodling around with ideas even then. “He was,” said Wilkins, “writing early versions of The Carpet People in short stories when he was at school, so this goes way back. ‘Don’t do that’, said Terry suddenly, ‘You’ll disturb the carpet people.’” ![]() Pratchett dreamed up The Carpet People as a teenager a 1971 interview revealed that he was “putting the world to rights … with a friend one evening when the friend got up to emphasise a point and started to pace across the room. ![]()
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