Reaper Man

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Or, as Terry explains more poignantly in a Sourcery footnote (on p. 21/22): “You mows it and you rolls it for five hundred years and then a bunch of bastards walks across it.”

A few people thought these might have been references to a scene in one of the Asterix comics, but this is another case of two authors both using the same, older source.

As Terry explains: “The lawns line was I believe a comment made by a University gardener to an American tourist years and years ago; it turns up from time to time.”