Sourcery – Discworld 05By Terry Pratchett.DEDICATION Many years ago I saw in Bath a very large American lady towing a huge tartan suitcase very fast onlittle rattly wheels which caught in the pavement cracks and generally gave it a life of its own. At thatmoment the Luggage was born. Many thanks to that lady and everyone else in places like Power CableNeb. who dont get nearly enough encouragement.This book does not contain a map. Please feel free to draw your own.There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that he was nothing more than a comma on thepage of History. Its sad but thats all you can say about some people.But the eighth son grew up and married and had eight sons and because there is only one suitablepro-fession for the eighth son of an eighth son he became a wizard. And he became wise and powerfulor at any rate powerful and wore a pointed hat and there it would have ended ... Page 1Should have ended ...But against the Lore of Magic and certainly against all reason-except the reasons of the heart which arewarm and messy and well unreasonable - he fled the halls of magic and fell in love and got married notnecessarily in that order.And he had seven sons each one from the cradle at least as powerful as any wizard in the world.And then he had an eighth son ...A wizard squared. A source of magic.A sourcerer.Summer thunder rolled around the sandy cliffs. Far below the sea sucked on the shingle as noisily as anold man with one tooth who had been given a gobstopper. A few seagulls hung lazily in the updraughtswaiting for something to happen. And the father of wizards sat among the thrift and rattling sea grasses at