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** Well, trolls ''exist'', is that not magic? Dwarfs, on the other hand... It looks that the closest thing to "magic" they have is the same as witches', which is mostly knowing sometimg the observers don't, in respect to mining more than medicine. So it looks like they get the short end of the stick on that. (Not one of those puns intended.)
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** Well, trolls ''exist'', is that not magic? Dwarfs, on the other hand... It looks that the closest thing to "magic" they have is the same as witches', which is mostly knowing sometimg something the observers don't, in respect to mining more than medicine. So it looks like they get the short end of the stick on that. (Not one of those puns intended.)
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*** The wizards, not being outdoorsy types with experience of all this, probably DidNotThinkThisThrough ...
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*** The sheer amount of secondhand smoke in a place like Unseen University could plausibly give a man a nicotine addiction all by itself. Moreover, Mustrum was isolated from UA's internal culture until he was brought in to lead the university. It's quite possible that years of living among the other wizards have worn some of the "corners" off his attitudes and preferences.
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*** Magic on the Discworld is connected to belief. Anything magical that is likely to directly alter people's feelings (the arts) or study and manipulate people's feelings (most of the social sciences) is going to set up nasty feedback loops. About the only things it's "safe" to do in terms of "magical liberal arts" would be the study of languages (and I think they have a few position titles for that) or of history. And history on the Discworld is so fragmented that I can easily imagine UA's faculty having given up on the field in disgust.
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** To sum up a lot of what we see above, dwarfs don't have a genderless society. They have a ''one-gender society.'' Everyone is expected to act like a dwarf, and 'dwarf' is a gender role along with a species. Gender is a performance; it's the way you act and the way you are treated by society. Human males are expected to act 'manly.' Human females are expected to act 'womanly.' Dwarfs, regardless of personal plumbing, are expected to act 'dwarfish.' It just so happens that the gender role 'dwarf' much more closely resembles the gender role 'man' than the role 'woman.'
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*** The speed of light, as in "how fast light actually travels through this material" does not have to be the universal speed limit. The universal speed limit is "how fast light travels ''in a vacuum.''" Fast-moving subatomic particles passing through glass can move faster than light itself travels ''in the glass'' very easily, though when that happens, they emit Cherenkov radiation and lose energy, which acts as a form of drag and slows them down. The effect of Discworld magic on the local speed of actual rays of light doesn't make it impossible for sound to travel faster than light, though you might see some weird interactions involving the sound itself ''creating'' light.
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*** Not necessarily. The water alien could have been drifting on a ballistic trajectory without there being a "universal down." 'Falling' through space isn't really distinguishable from 'drifting' through space or moving 'sideways' through space. But it's not really a problem; Great A'Tuin is huge and it's at least superficially plausible that A'Tuin's mass (plus the elephants) generate the Discworld's gravity, assuming gravity DOES have to come from somewhere.
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** Recycled names? TP elsewhere refers to the "Dave Problem" - where lots of Thieves in Ankh-Morpork are called Dave and ingenuity gets stretched with regard to providing distinguishing nicknames. (There's a Trope about this, OneSteveLimit, or something). This also gets applied to Feegle - all the Wullies and Rabs and soforth. We may be thinking of multiple Robs here? (Also... if only one male Feegle gets to marry and have sex, how do the rest of the feegle males deal with this? Is it sublimated into anger and agression?)
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** Recycled names? TP elsewhere refers to the "Dave Problem" - where lots of Thieves in Ankh-Morpork are called Dave and ingenuity gets stretched with regard to providing distinguishing nicknames. (There's a Trope about this, OneSteveLimit, or something). This also gets applied to Feegle - all the Wullies and Rabs and soforth. We may be thinking of multiple Robs here? (Also... if only one male Feegle gets to marry and have sex, how do the rest of the feegle males deal with this? Is it sublimated into anger and agression?)
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** Judging by how ignorant/innocent of sexual mores and concepts Rob's brothers seem to be (e.g. not comprehending why Tiffany doesn't want them watching over her in the bath), it's likely that Feegles don't actually ''have'' a sex drive unless they're married. Like animals with an exclusive breeding season, sex doesn't even cross their minds unless and until the circumstances demand it.
** Judging by how ignorant/innocent of sexual mores and concepts Rob's brothers seem to be (e.g. not comprehending why Tiffany doesn't want them watching over her in the bath), it's likely that Feegles don't actually ''have'' a sex drive unless they're married. Like animals with an exclusive breeding season, sex doesn't even cross their minds unless and until the circumstances demand it.
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*** The University back then still ran on [[KlingonPromotion]. You keep what you kill, so technically The Luggage is the professor of Liberal Arts. But since it's not a wizard, that falls to the nearest Wizzard to take the job, bucket and coal, and duties.
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*** The University back then still ran on [[KlingonPromotion].KlingonPromotion. You keep what you kill, so technically The Luggage is the professor of Liberal Arts. But since it's not a wizard, that falls to the nearest Wizzard to take the job, bucket and coal, and duties.
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** The Discworld isn't very big, or very heavily populated. That's the problem with building on the back of a turtle.
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*** The University back then still ran on [[KlingonPromotion]. You keep what you kill, so technically The Luggage is the professor of Liberal Arts. But since it's not a wizard, that falls to the nearest Wizzard to take the job, bucket and coal, and duties.
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** Another niggling problem is - what happens to any aquatic wildlife swept over the Edge in a Rimfall? It's no great stretch to postulate the water then flows underneath and recycles on, but living creatures would be more delicate than that; you couldn't have, for instance, a shoal of saltwater fish sucked under in a permanent Niagara, and if they survive that, to be directed to a freshwater river somewhere. Unless local evolution accounts for this, wouldn't the Discworld seas end up being depleted of life over time?
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** There are the reverse-Goths in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'', where the younger Vampyres play a sort of reverse D&D where they "cosplay" and act out people called Pamela and Shirley, who dress drably and lead completely mundane human lives as shop assistants and accountants.
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** In ''Literature/ReaperMan'', a dialogue between the two Ridcully brothers reveals that Mustrum is dead against smoking to the point of being militant about it. Yet get to ''Literature/Unseen Academicals'' and he's practically an addict - he has withdrawal symptims when Mrs Whitlow confiscates his tobacco. So attitudes change?
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** In ''Literature/ReaperMan'', a dialogue between the two Ridcully brothers reveals that Mustrum is dead against smoking to the point of being militant about it. Yet get to ''Literature/Unseen Academicals'' ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' and he's practically an addict - he has withdrawal symptims when Mrs Whitlow confiscates his tobacco. So attitudes change?
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** In ''Literature/ReaperMan'', a dialogue between the two Ridcully brothers reveals that Mustrum is dead against smoking to the point of being militant about it. Yet get to ''Literature/{{Unseen Academicals'' and he's practically an addict - he has withdrawal symptims when Mrs Whitlow confiscates his tobacco. So attitudes change?
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** In ''Literature/ReaperMan'', a dialogue between the two Ridcully brothers reveals that Mustrum is dead against smoking to the point of being militant about it. Yet get to ''Literature/{{Unseen ''Literature/Unseen Academicals'' and he's practically an addict - he has withdrawal symptims when Mrs Whitlow confiscates his tobacco. So attitudes change?
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** In ''Literature/ReaperMan'', a dialogue between the two Ridcully brothers reveals that Mustrum is dead against smoking to the point of being militant about it. Yet get to ''Literature/{{Unseen Academicals'' and he's practically an addict - he has withdrawal symptims when Mrs Whitlow confiscates his tobacco. So attitudes change?
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** Recycled names? TP elsewhere refers to the "Dave Problem" - where lots of Thieves in Ankh-Morpork are called Dave and ingenuity gets stretched with regard to providing distinguishing nicknames. (There's a Trope about this, OneSteveLimit, or something). This also gets applied to Feegle - all the Wullies and Rabs and soforth. We may be thinking of multiple Robs here? (Also... if only one male Feegle gets to marry and have sex, how do the rest of the feegle males deal with this? Is it sublimated into anger and agression?)
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** In ''Feet of Clay'', Vimes says there's no-one like a dwarf for forging magical rings. Coupled with the broomstick thing, I see "dwarf magic" as being very much to do with creating magical items. They'd probably say you don't need to actually know ''spells'' to do this, you just need to know your craft.
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** Before he takes Susan back to school, Death specifically tells her that people ''will'' remember the events of the book, sort of (note that this also seems to foreshadow ''Thief of Time'' meaning we can go to that all-purpose excuse "blame the History Monks"):
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** Before he takes Susan back to school, Death specifically tells her that people ''will'' remember the events of the book, sort of (note that this also seems to foreshadow ''Thief of Time'' Time'', meaning we can go to that all-purpose excuse "blame the History Monks"):
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** Before he takes Susan back to school, Death specifically tells her that people ''will'' remember the events of the book, sort of:
--->'''Death''': HISTORY TENDS TO SWING BACK INTO LINE. THEY ARE ALWAYS PATCHING IT UP. I DARESAY SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE SOME CONFUSED MEMORIES ABOUT A CONCERT OF SOME SORT IN THE PARK. BUT WHAT OF IT? THEY WILL REMEMBER THINGS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.\\
--->'''Death''': HISTORY TENDS TO SWING BACK INTO LINE. THEY ARE ALWAYS PATCHING IT UP. I DARESAY SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE SOME CONFUSED MEMORIES ABOUT A CONCERT OF SOME SORT IN THE PARK. BUT WHAT OF IT? THEY WILL REMEMBER THINGS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.\\
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--->'''Death''': HISTORY TENDS TO SWING BACK INTO LINE. THEY ARE ALWAYS PATCHING IT UP. THERE ARE ALWAYS SOME MINOR LOOSE ENDS ... I DARESAY SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE SOME CONFUSED MEMORIES ABOUT A CONCERT OF SOME SORT IN THE PARK. BUT WHAT OF IT? THEY WILL REMEMBER THINGS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.\\
--->'''Death''': HISTORY TENDS TO SWING BACK INTO LINE. THEY ARE ALWAYS PATCHING IT UP. THERE ARE ALWAYS SOME MINOR LOOSE ENDS ... I DARESAY SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE SOME CONFUSED MEMORIES ABOUT A CONCERT OF SOME SORT IN THE PARK. BUT WHAT OF IT? THEY WILL REMEMBER THINGS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.\\
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--->'''Death''': HISTORY TENDS TO SWING BACK INTO LINE. THEY ARE ALWAYS PATCHING IT UP. I DARESAY SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE SOME CONFUSED MEMORIES ABOUT A CONCERT OF SOME SORT IN THE PARK. BUT WHAT OF IT? THEY WILL REMEMBER THINGS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
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--->'''Death''': HISTORY TENDS TO SWING BACK INTO LINE. THEY ARE ALWAYS PATCHING IT UP. I DARESAY SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE SOME CONFUSED MEMORIES ABOUT A CONCERT OF SOME SORT IN THE PARK. BUT WHAT OF IT? THEY WILL REMEMBER THINGS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.\\
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** Before he takes Susan back to school, Death specifically tells her that people ''will'' remember the events of the book, sort of:
--->'''Death''': HISTORY TENDS TO SWING BACK INTO LINE. THEY ARE ALWAYS PATCHING IT UP. I DARESAY SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE SOME CONFUSED MEMORIES ABOUT A CONCERT OF SOME SORT IN THE PARK. BUT WHAT OF IT? THEY WILL REMEMBER THINGS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
'''Susan''': But they ''did'' happen.\\
'''Death''': AS WELL.
--->'''Death''': HISTORY TENDS TO SWING BACK INTO LINE. THEY ARE ALWAYS PATCHING IT UP. I DARESAY SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE SOME CONFUSED MEMORIES ABOUT A CONCERT OF SOME SORT IN THE PARK. BUT WHAT OF IT? THEY WILL REMEMBER THINGS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
'''Susan''': But they ''did'' happen.\\
'''Death''': AS WELL.
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*** Demonstrating once again the absolute brilliance of the Discworld translators
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** That's how we do nu bering in the UK. If you build a new house on a patch of land between number 7 and number 9, it becomes 7A. We don't renumber 7 to 7A and make the new one 7B
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** And yet Olaf Quimby II is canon, nevertheless. Perhaps, in that respect, Ankh-Morpork nobility take after a more continental tradition than RealLife Britain, ''a la'' Vetinari's skullcap or his and other noble families' Italianate surnames.
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** And yet Olaf Quimby II is canon, nevertheless. Perhaps, in that respect, Ankh-Morpork nobility take after a more continental tradition than RealLife Britain, ''a la'' Vetinari's skullcap or his and other noble families' Italianate surnames.
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** And yet Olaf Quimby II is canon, nevertheless. Perhaps, in that respect, Ankh-Morpork nobility take after a more continental tradition than RealLife Britain, ''a la'' Vetinari's skullcap or his and other noble families' Italianate surnames.
