“I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the Landscape.”

—  Terry Pratchett

On Stonehenge, at alt.fan.pratchett (8 June 1997) http://www.lspace.org/ftp/words/pqf/pqf
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Context: I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the Landscape. I reckon that Stonehenge was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.

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