We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade.
And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family?
And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.”
We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade.
And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family?
And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.”
- T. Pratchett - "The fifth elefant"