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Terry Pratchett’s novels may have held clues to his dementia a decade before diagnosis, our new study suggests (theconversation.com)

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[–] Yaenntz@fedia.io 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

While I find this analysis interesting on the one hand, I am also a little skeptical on the other. A reduction in the number of adjectives could also suggest that Terry's language was becoming sharper and more focused. I mean, at this point Terry still wrote Night watch, Going postal etc. As for me, things started to get kind of strange around Unseen Academicals. But then it had been already official that Terry was ill. So maybe I was already biased.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nightwatch was perdection. Going postal had...some moments and phrasing that made me go wait, what?

If i had to pick a moment where things were becoming visible, GP would be it.

Not to say that everything after that continued to degrade, but that was the first one - and i started when Equal Rites was released - that i felt something wasn't right.