#the strange and the wonderful

And suddenly it dawned on the late Windle Poons that there was no such thing as somebody else’s problem, and that just when you thought the world had pushed you aside it turned out to be full of strangeness. He knew from experience that the living never found out half of what was really happening, because they were too busy beingthe living. […]

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and the mundane. But it wasstrange. It had things in it like screws that unscrewed themselves, and little written messages for the dead.

Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man