#1
It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
#2
Precisely why all the above should be so is not so clear but goes some way to explain why, on the disc, the Gods are not so much worshipped as blamed.
#3
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.
In a city where public executions,duels, fights, magical feuds, and strange events regularly punctuated the daily round, the inhabitants had brought the profession of interested bystander to a peak of perfection. They were, to a man, highly skilled gawpers.
“wizards, even failed wizards, have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine, the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space. It is said to be a sort of fluorescent greenish-yellow purple.”
I love how he included rods and cones to make things legitimate and then added his own twist to it!
“Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.”
This about a camera. What does it say about selfie-takers then? Did we take back the power only to make duckfaces?
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