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Fridge Brilliance
- Why, in the climax, can Carrot thrust his sword clean through first a villain and then a marble pillar without apparent effort? On one hand, narrative... Carrot is an Ideal Hero, so certain special rules apply here. But there's also the sword itself. In Guards, Guards, we learn that the sword is utterly nonmagical. Less magical than the natural background field of the Disc, in fact. Which, by Discworld rules, means it is more real than the rest of the Disc. It therefore gets to abuse the same logical loophole that Death (the Ultimate Reality) does to walk through walls: From its point of view, whatever it cuts is barely there at all.
- DEATH doesn't seem particularly impressed by Big Fido, and certainly doesn't extend him the same courtesy he does most other living beings. Of course not—he's a cat person, after all!
- Also, even though he does usually try to be polite, DEATH almost certainly would not approve of Big Fido's ideas.
- This book first introduces the parallel between trolls brains and computers. We also see that Detritus, even when his intelligence is not enhanced by the cold, is able to count extremely fast. "Dumb but good at counting" is a pretty good description of a computer... (at least until a true Artificial Intelligence will be developed)
- Also pay attention to how Detritus counts. He counts in twos, fours, eights, sixteens, thirty twos, and sixty fours. Terry Pratchett was making a computing joke as most computers use those processing width for calculations.
