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knocking him over and spinning Gaspode across the floor.
The little dog sat up, took a few wobbling steps, and fell over.
‘Bloody leg’s been and gone,’ he muttered. Laddie gave him a sorrowful look. Flames crackled around the film cans. .
‘Go on, get out of here, you stupid mutt,’ said Gaspode. ‘The whole thing’s goin’ to go up in a minute. No! Don’t up into the foggy sky. Wreckage smashed against the walls of other houses. A red‑hot film can scythed over the heads of the recumbent wizards, making a menacing wipwipwip noise, and exploded against a distant wall.
There was a high, thin keening that stopped abruptly.
The Ginger‑Thing rocked in the heat. The gust of hot air lifted its huge skirts in billows around its waist and it stood, flickering and uncertain, as debris rained down around it.
Then it turned awkwardly and lurched onward.pick me up! Put me down! You haven’t got time–‘ The walls of the Odium expanded with apparent slowness, every plank and stone maintaining its position relative to all the others but floating out by itself.Then Time caught up with events.Victor threw himself flat on his face.Boom.An orange fireball lifted the roof and billowed

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Laddie streaked over the dunes; pausing occasionally for Victor to catch up. Gaspode followed on some way behind, rolling from side to side and wheezing.
The trail led to the hollow, which was empty.
The door was open about a foot. Scuffed sand around it indicated that, whatever may or may not have come out, Ginger had gone in.
Victor stared at it.
Laddie sat by the door, staring hopefully at Victor.
‘He’s waitin’,‘Er. Or we could wait till she comes out. The fact is, I’ve never been very happy about darkness,’ said Victor.
‘I mean, night‑time is OK, but pitch darkness‑‘
‘I bet Cohen the Barbarian isn’t afraid of the dark,’ said Gaspode.
‘Well, yes‑‘’ said Gaspode.‘What for?’ said Victor apprehensively.Gaspode groaned. ‘What do you think?’ he said.‘Oh. Yes. There’s a good boy, Laddie.’Laddie yapped and tried to turn a somersault.‘What do we do next?’ said Victor. ‘I suppose we go in, do we?’‘Could be,’ said Gaspode.
‘And the Black Shadow of the Desert, he’s not afraid of the dark either

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What I don’t understand,’ said Gaspode, as Victor picked up the stick and hurled it away, Laddie racing along underneath it, ‘is how come we’re descended from wolves. I mean, your average wolf, he’s a bright bugger, along in a bowlegged swagger. ‘Only I can look after myself. It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. You think Dopey the Mutt there would last five minutes in Ankh-Morpork? He set one paw in some o’ the streets, he’s three sets of fur gloves an’ Crispy Fried No. 27 at the nearest Klatchian all-night carryout.’
Victor threw the stick again.
‘Tell me,’ he said, ‘who was the famous Gaspode you’re named after?’
‘You never heard of him?’
‘No.’ know what I mean? Chock full of cunnin’ an’ like that. We’re talking grey paws racing over the trackless tundra, is what I’m getting at.’ Gaspode looked wistfully at the distant mountains. ‘And suddenly a handful of generations later we’ve got Percy the Pup here with a cold nose, bright eyes, glossy coat and the brains of a stunned herring.’ ‘And you,’ said Victor. Laddie whirled back in a storm of sand and dropped the damp stick in front of him. Victor picked it up and threw it again. Laddie bounded off, yapping himself sick with excitement. ‘Well, yeah,’ said Gaspode, ambling

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Possibly an important historical artifact, Master.’
‘Shove it in my study, then. I said the place needs bright’nin’ up. It’ll be one of them conversation pieces, right? nails being hammered.
Holy Wood had gone critical. New houses, new streets, new neighbourhoods, appeared overnight. And, in those areas where the hastily-educated alchemical apprentices were not yet fully alongside the trickier stages of making octo-cellulose, disappeared even faster. Not that it made a lot of difference. Barely would the smoke have cleared before someone was hammering again. Got to go now. Got to see a man about trainin’ a gryphon. Good day, ladies-’‘Er, Archchancellor, I wonder if you could just sign-’ the Bursar began, but to a closing door. No-one asked Ksandra which of the pottery elephants had spat the ball, and the direction wouldn’t have meant anything to them anyway. That afternoon a couple of porters moved the universe’s only working the Archchancellor’s study. No-one had found a way to add sound to moving pictures, but there was a sound that was particularly associated with Holy Wood. It was the sound of

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From what I hear it’s not like that,’ said Dibbler. ‘I sold one of the men a Jumbo Sausage Special earlier on, and he said it’s all down to showing pictures very fast. Sticking lots of pictures together and showing them one after sitting by his feet.
It was small, bow-legged and wiry, and basically grey but with patches of brown, white and black in outlying areas, and it was staring.
It was certainly the most penetrating stare Victor had ever seen. It wasn’t menacing or fawning. It was just very slow and very thorough, as though the dog was memorizing details so that it could give a full description to the authorities later on. another. Very, very fast, he said.’ ‘Not too fast,’ said Victor severely. ‘You wouldn’t be able to see them go past if they were too fast.’ ‘He said that’s the whole secret, not seeing ‘em go past,’ said Dibbler. ‘You have to see ‘em all at once, or something.’ ‘They’d all be blurred,’ said Victor. ‘Didn’t you ask him about that?’ ‘Er, no,’ said Dibbler. ‘Point of fact, he had to rush off just then. Said he felt a bit odd.’ Victor looked thoughtfully at the remnant of his sausage in a bun and, as he did so, he was aware of being stared at in his turn. He looked down. There was a dog

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pictures of all the Royals and stuck them in a scrapbook, a royalist who wouldn't hear a word said about them, they did such a good job and they can't answer back - if suddenly all the Royals turned up in his living room and started rearranging the furniture. He longed for the necropolis, and the cool silence among his old friends, and a quick, you will find a way. You have our full support, O Dios.' Koomi waved an uplifted hand at the priests, who chorused wholehearted agreement. If you couldn't depend on kings and gods, you could always rely on old Dios. There wasn't one of them that wouldn't prefer the uncertain wrath of the gods to a rebuke from Dios. Dios terrified them in a very positive, human way that no supernatural entity ever could. Dios would sort it out. sleep after which he'd be able to think so much more clearly . . . Koomi's heart leapt. Dios's discomfort was a crack which, with due care and attention, could take a wedge. But you couldn't use a hammer. Head on, Dios could outfight the world. The old man was shaking again. 'I do not presume to tell them how to run affairs in the Hereunder,' he said. 'They shall not presume to instruct me in how to run my kingdom.' Koomi salted this treasonable statement away for further study and patted him gently on the back. 'You're right, of course,' he said. Dios's eyes swivelled. 'I am?' he said, suspiciously. 'I'm sure that, as the king's minister

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'The Great-'
'My mother,' explained Teppic. 'It's all very embarrassing.'
'Does he smite people?'
'I don't think so. He's never said.'
Arthur my father to be sure and tell him not to.'
At the other end of the dormitory Chidder was kneeling on Cheesewright's back and knocking his head repeatedly against the wall.
'Say it again,' he commanded. 'Come on - "There's nothing wrong-"'
'"There's nothing wrong with a chap being man enough-" curse you, Chidder, you beastlyreached down to the end of the bed. The goat, in the confusion, had chewed through its rope and trotted out of the door, vowing to give up religion in future. 'I'm going to get into awful trouble,' he said. 'I suppose you couldn't ask your father to explain things to the Great OM?' 'He might be able to,' said Teppic doubtfully. 'I was going to write home tomorrow anyway. 'The Great Orm is normally to be found in one of the Nether Hells,' said Arthur, 'where he watches everything we do. Everything I do, anyway. There's only me and mother left now, and she doesn't do much that needs watching.' 'I'll be sure and tell him.' 'Do you think the Great Orm will come tonight?' 'I shouldn't think so. I'll ask

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said Lady Felmet, icily.
'Oh, the trees,' said the duke.
'What have trees got to do with it?'
'Well. . . there are such a lot of them,' said the duke, with feeling.
'Don't change the subject!'been mentioned that Duke Felmet was one step away from the throne. The step in question was at the top of the flight leading to the Great Hall, down which King Verence had tumbled in the dark only to land, against all the laws of probability, on his own dagger.
It had, however, been declared duchess swept out to find someone else to berate, and left Lord Felmet looking gloomily at the landscape. It started to rain.
It was on this cue that there came a thunderous knocking at the castle door. It seriously disturbed the castle porter, who was playing Cripple Mister Onion with the castle cook and the castle's Fool in the warmth of the kitchen.
He growled and stood with a card in his hand, suppressed his panic and thought quickly.
'I'faith, nuncle,' he squeaked, 'thou't more full of questions than a martlebury is of mizzensails.'
The cook relaxed.

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been. Unexplained happenings were always more or less expected in the Ramtops because of the high magical potential, but several years disappearing overnight was a bit of a first.
She locked the door, fastened the shutters, and carefully laid the green glass globe on the kitchen table.
She They didn't rush things. There was a lot of country between Ankh-Morpork and the Ramtops. It was, Hwel had to admit, fun. It wasn't a word dwarfs were generally at home with.
Please Yourself went over well. It always did. The apprentices excelled concentrated . . .The Fool dozed under the tarpaulins of the river barge, heading up the Ankh at a steady two miles an hour. It wasn't an exciting method of transport but it got you there eventually.He looked safe enough, but he was tossing and turning in his sleep.Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn't want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse, the reason being, you were alive to suffer it.She considered the Fool to be weak, badly led and sorely in need of some backbone. And she was longing for him to get back, so she could look forward to never seeing him again.It was a long, hot summer.

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'More easily, I think,' he said. 'Because the past is what people remember, and memories are words. Who knows how a king behaved a thousand years ago? There is only recollection, and stories. And plays, of course.'
'Ah, yes. I saw a play once,' said Felmet. 'Bunch of funny fellows in tights. A lot of shouting. The people liked it.'
'You tell me history is what people are told?' said the duchess.
The Foolthis time,' he murmured. He rubbed his dagger hand, although the word was becoming inappropriate.
'Be quiet, husband,' snapped the duchess. 'I know you didn't do it. I wasn't there with you, you may recall. It was I who didn't hand you the dagger.' The duke shuddered again. looked around the throne room and found King Gruneberry the Good (906-967).'Was he?' he said, pointing. 'Who knows, now? What was he good at? But he will be Gruneberry the Good until the end of the world.'The duke was leaning forward in his throne, his eyes gleaming.'I want to be a good ruler,' he said. 'I want people to like me. I would like people to remember me fondly.''Let us assume,' said the duchess, 'that there were other matters, subject to controversy. Matters of historical record that had . . . been clouded.''I didn't do it, you know,' said the duke, quickly. 'He slipped and fell. That was it. Slipped and fell. I wasn't even there. He attacked me. It was self-defence. That's it. He slipped and fell on his own dagger in self-defence.' His voice fell to a mumble. 'I have no recollection of it at

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-o,' said Hwel. 'But I can do you a humorous monologue in Act III.'
'A humorous monologue!'
'All right, there's room for a soliloquy in the last act,' said Hwel hurriedly. 'I'll write one tonight, no problem.'
'And a stabbing,' said Vitoller, getting to his feet. 'A foul murder. That always goes down well.'
He strode ago, not only because of his claustrophobia but also because he had a tendency to daydream. It was felt by the local dwarf king that this is not a valuable talent for someone who is supposed to swing a pickaxe without forgetting what he is supposed to hit with it, and so Hwel had been given a very small bag of gold, the tribe's heartfelt best wishes, and a firm goodbye.away to organise the setting up of the stage.Hwel sighed, and picked up his quill. Somewhere behind the sacking walls was the town of Hangdog, which had somehow allowed itself to be built in a hollow perched in the nearly sheer walls of a canyon. There was plenty of flat ground in the Ramtops. The problem was that nearly all of it was vertical.Hwel didn't like the Ramtops, which was odd because it was traditional dwarf country and he was a dwarf. But he'd been banished from his tribe years

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Week when the drink flowed quickly and the privy seemed too far to stagger. These had all seemed hilarious ideas at the time. They suddenly didn't, now.
Only two figures we'd —'
'Stop this bloody nonsense!' Albert glanced down at the little ape, who gave him a warm friendly smile. 'What's your name, man?'
'Yes, sir, I'll stop, sir, right away, no more nonsense, sir . . . Rincewind, sir. Assistant librarian, if it's all right by you.'
Albert looked him up and down. The man had a desperate scuffed look, like something left out for the laundry. He decided that if this was what wizarding had come to, someone ought to do something about remained to face the statue's wrath, one because he had got his robe caught in the door and the other because he was, in fact, an ape and could therefore take a relaxed attitude to human affairs.Albert grabbed the wizard, who was trying desperately to walk into the wall. The man squealed.'All right, all right, I admit it! I was drunk at the time, believe me, didn't mean it, gosh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry —''What are you bleating about, man?' said Albert, genuinely puzzled.'— so sorry, if I tried to tell you how sorry I am

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made Mort recall the old yard at . During the harsh Ramtop winters the family kept hardy mountain tharga beasts in the yard, chucking in straw as necessary. After the spring thaw the yard was several feet deep and had quite a solid crust on it. You could walk across it if you were careful. If you weren't, zone. She fumbled urgently in her sleeves for the handkerchief, but it was no more use in the circumstances than a paper hat in a thunderstorm. She tried to say something, which became a stream of consonants punctuated by sobs.
Mort said, 'Um?'and sank knee deep in the concentrated gyppo, then the sound your boot made as it came out, green and steaming, was as much the sound of the turning year as birdsong and beebuzz.It was that noise. Mort instinctively examined his shoes.Ysabell was crying, not in little ladylike sobs, but in great yawning gulps, like bubbles from an underwater volcano, fighting one another to be the first to the surface. They were sobs escaping under pressure, matured in humdrum misery.Mort said,'Er?'Her body was shaking like a waterbed in an earthquake

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some hasn't. Hers hadn't.
When he wasn't out on what Death referred to as THE DUTY Mort assisted Albert, or found jobs or stable, or , marking the place and counting the extra lines, and estimated that some books were adding paragraphs at the rate of four or five every day. He didn't
And finally he plucked up his courage.
A WHAT? said Death in astonishment, sitting behind his ornate desk and turning his scythe-shaped paperknife over and over in his hands.
'An afternoon off,' repeated Mort. The room suddenly seemed to be obrowsed through Death's extensive library, reading with the speed and omnivorousness common to those who discover the magic of the written word for the first time.Most of the books in the library were biographies, of course.They were unusual in one respect. They were writing themselves. People who had already died, obviously, filled their books from cover to cover, and those who hadn't been born yet had to put up with blank pages. Those in between . . . Mort took noteppressively big, with

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Cutangle gave this some thought.
"I think you're wrong there," he said. "I must have crossed the same river, oh, thousands of times."
"Ah, but it wasn't the same river."
"It wasn't?"
"No."
Cutangle shrugged. "It looked like the same bloody river."
"No need to take that tone," said Granny. "I don't see why I should listen to that sort of language from a wizard who can't even answer letters!"
Cutangle was silent for a moment, except for the castanet chatter of his teeth.
"Oh," he said. "of snowflakes, a ornamental pillar of frozen air. And below it....
The staff wasn't locked in ice, but lay peacefully in a seething pool of water.
One of the unusual aspects of a magical universe is the existence of opposites. It has Oh, I see. They were from you, were they?" "That's right. I signed them on the bottom. It's supposed to be a sort of clue, isn't it?" "All right, all right. I just thought they were a joke, that's all," said Cutangle sullenly. "A joke?" "We don't get many applications from women. We don't get any." "I wondered why I didn't get a reply," said Granny. "I threw them away, if you must know." "You could at least have - there it is!" "Where? Where? Oh, there." The fog parted and they now saw it clearly - a fountain

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calculated the selling price of six hundred gallons of triple-distilled white mountain peach brandy and ran out of numbers.
Mrs Skiller was quicker on the uptake than her husband. She bent down and smiled at Esk, who was too tired to squint back. It wasn't a particularly good smile, because Mrs Skiller didn't get much practice.
"How did you get here, little girl?" she said, in a voice that suggested gingerbread cottages and the slamming of big stove doors.
"I got woodchopper to sort this out.
Granny, meanwhile, was two streets away. She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.
It has already been mentioned that it is much harder to detect a human mind than, say, the mind of a fox. The human mind, seeing this as some kind of a slur, wants to know why. This is why.lost from Granny." "And where's Granny now, dear? " Clang went the oven doors again; it was going to be a tough night for all wanderers in metaphorical forests. "Just somewhere, I expect." "Would you like to go to sleep in a big feather bed, all nice and warm?" Esk looked at her gratefully, even while vaguely realizing that the woman had a face just like an eager ferret, and nodded. You're right. It's going to take more than a passing

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soon as he felt the press of the flagstones under his feet Rincewind flung his weight to one side and rolled on his back with the frantic creature at arms' length.
'Now!' he yelled.
'Now whata flash of octarine light.
Then Twoflower was alone on the top of the tower – alone, that is, except for seven wizards who still seemed to be frozen to the spot.
He sat bewildered as seven fireballs rose out of the blackness and plunged into the discarded Octavo?' said Twoflower. 'Oh. Yes. Right!'He swung the sword inexpertly but with some force, missing Rincewind by inches and burying it deeply in the Thing. There was a shrill buzzing, as though he had smashed a wasp's nest, and the melee of arms and legs and tentacles flailed in agony. It rolled again, screaming and thrashing at the flagstones, and then it was thrashing at nothing at all because it had rolled over the edge of the stairway, taking Rincewind with it.There was a squelching noise as it bounced off a few of the stone steps, and then a distant and disappearing shriek as it tumbled the depth of the tower.Finally there was a dull explosion and

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Rincewind remembered the only fact he knew for sure about trolls, which was that they turned to stone when exposed to sunlight, so that anyone who employed trolls to work during daylight had to spend a fortune in barrier cream.
But now actually seen him do any magic.'
'Right, let's have the other one,' said Bethan.
'Thish is very kind of you.'
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angry and upset.
And in various parts of the forest parties of wizards are getting lost, and going around in circles, and hiding from each other, and getting upset because whenever they bump into a tree it apologises to them. But, on the windows. Rare and rather smelly oils have been poured in complex patterns on the floor, in designs which hurt the eyes and suggest the designer was drunk or from some other dimension or, possibly, both; in the very centre of the room is the eightfold octogram of Witholding, surrounded by red and green candles. And in the centre of that is a box made from wood of the curly-fern pine, which grows to a great age, and it is lined with red silk and yet more unsteadily though it may be, many of them are getting quite close to the cottage . . .Which is a good time to get back to the rambling buildings of Unseen University and in particular the apartments of Greyhald Spold, currently the oldest wizard on the Disc and determined to keep it that way.He has just been extremely surprised and upset.For the last few hours he has been very busy. He may be deaf and a little hard of thinking, but elderly wizards have very well-trained survival instincts, and they know that when a tall figure in a black robe and the latest in agricultural handtools starts looking thoughtfully at you it is time to act fast. The servants have been dismissed. The doorways have been sealed with a paste made from powdered mayflies, and protective octograms have been drawn

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which he had subsequently enslaved or stolen. He had begun his career as a sailor on the Dehydrated Ocean in the heart of the disc's driest desert. (Water on the disc has an uncommon fourth state, caused by intense magic combined with the strange desiccating effects of octarine light) it dehydrates, leaving a silvery mildue like free-flowing the sound of splintering wood. The crewmen drew together fearfully, brandishing axes and torches.
They probably wouldn't dare to use them, even if the Monster came rushing towards them. Before its terrible nature had been truly understood several men had attacked it with axes, whereupon it had turned sand through which a well-designed hull can glide with ease. The Dehydrated Ocean is a strange place, but not so strange as its fish.) The captain had never before been really frightened. Now he was terrified."I can't hear anything," he muttered to the first mate. The mate peered into the gloom."Perhaps it fell overboard?" he suggested hopefully. As if in answer there came a furious pounding from the oar deck below their feet, and