Pyramids: A Discworld Novel: 7

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Cats Are Mean: Dios insists cats must be worshipped, but Teppic can't help but feel if he has to worship cats they should be elegant-looking creatures, not the vicious, yellow-eyed little bastards who claw him the minute he gets near. The side characters are all well formed. I loved Teppicymon when he was a ghost commenting how silly all the pyramid nonsense was.

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The Marie Celeste left port in 1872 with a full crew, but was later found (by the crew of the Dei Gratia) abandoned on the open sea, with no crew, the single lifeboat missing, and half-eaten meals in the crew's mess. It was later discovered that captain Morehouse of the Dei Gratia had dined with the captain of the Celeste the night before she sailed, and Morehouse and his crew were eventually tried for murder, but acquitted because there was no hard evidence. The missing crewmen were never found. Pratchett also uses the Marie Celeste reference in the novel The Last Hero.Our Sphinxes Are Different: When Pteppic is attempting to reenter Djelibeybi, he passes through a misty land not entirely in any dimension where he encounters the Sphinx, who asks him her famous riddle with the equally famous penalty, and will not let him pass unless he answers it. Dios's ultimate fate is this as well; he's forced to relive the same 6,000 year life over and over, for eternity. That said, he isn't aware of it — or, it seems, particularly bothered by it. Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Djelibeybi is, in the words of Stephen Briggs, " Ancient Egypt turned up until the knob falls off". Ephebe and Tsort are also based on Ancient Greece and Troy respectively. Conservatives vs progressives was, even in this version of ancient Egypt, a hot topic, and Pratchett ridicules the arguments of antiquated minds by exaggerating their prime goals and authorities in general. According to Ptraci, one of the sex postions of Alfonz's tattoos is from the 130 Days of Pseudopolis. This is a reference to Marquis de Sade's infamous novel, The 120 Days of Sodom.

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What stands out here is the amount of clever puns and twists on well-known stories from our world. The puns are not only used to explain phenomena on the Discworld but are even used as names of characters (like IIb which spells as "to be" and is the name of the eldest son of Ptaclusp, who is of course destined to become his father's successor - his younger brother is called IIa). Due to the Dead: As an Ancient Egypt analogue, giving the proper due requires rather a lot of effort. A handmaiden gets in trouble for not volunteering to accompany the king.Try to Fit That on a Business Card: King Teppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun, Guardian of the Secret Knowledge, Lord of the Horizon, Keeper of the Way, the Flail of Mercy, the High-Born One, the Never-Dying King. On formal occasions, it's considered necessary to repeat the entire thing every time he's referred to. Master Poisoner: Mericet teaches Strategy and Poison in the Assassins' school and many of the traps he sets for Teppic are poisoned.

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Or to phrase it another way, the Fate After Death for almost every single person who has been mummified in Djelibeybi. As a result of the rather convoluted belief system of the Djelibeybians, all of them are dead in the practical ways, but unable to pass on. Instead, they remain bound to their bodies, which are then methodically dismantled and sealed up in tombs for all eternity. This approaches And I Must Scream for one particularly-unfortunate mummy, whose sarcophagus lid was so well-secured that he couldn't get out. Paper People: IIa becomes flat and drifts continuously to the right as a result of the pyramid switching his dimensions. Amphibian at Large: Djelibeybi is so impoverished they couldn't even manage a plague of frogs, merely a plague of frog. It was, however, a particularly big frog, and it got into the air ducts and kept everyone awake for weeks. Este libro en cuestión pertenece a la saga de las “antiguas civilizaciones” sin embargo no tiene un enlace directo con otras de las sagas ni con el siguiente libro por lo que me dispuse a ello. La premisa no era mala, típico libro de Prachett, me dije a mi misma: conociéndote seguro que te ríes por alguna tontería.The pyramid that the very first king of Djelibeybi had built for Dios carries the inscription "KHUFT HAD ME MADE", a reference to an Anglo-Saxon artefact known as the Alfred Jewel . One of the rare cases that Pratchett uses a bit of theoretical hard science as a plot element, may be a reminiscence of some of his first attempts at writing, including some Sci-Fi ideas. It´s used to show that it may be disillusioning and frustrating to meet the idols of ones´ time, be it different physically manifested ancient deities or possibly stars and politicians nowadays. Exceptions are authors, of course, they are all admirable and epic. War Elephants: According to Pteppic, they're useless, since all they do is trample on their own troops when they inevitably panic. The military responds to this by breeding bigger elephants.

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The problem arose when the previous king decided that he wanted his son to have a good education, and normally that would simply mean being taught by the priest, specifically Dios. Instead the king sent his son, the protagonist of the piece, to the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork. As it turns out, Go, tell the Ephebians... Subverted in that it's followed by "What kept you?" as the rest of the Ephebian army marches in. The Anticipator: Teppic considers inhuming Mericet, his Assassin's school examinator (managing to kill the examinator gets you an automatic pass, because it's nearly impossible), but decides against it. Mericet was in fact hiding as a gargoyle, tells Teppic where to go next (involving an obstacle course worthy of Assassin's Creed), and somehow shows up there before Teppic. Villainous BSoD: Dios has one once his set in stone routine is irrevocably ruined, and is left with no idea what he's supposed to do next. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:

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Pyramids speaks to something of a bypass in Pratchett’s Discworld arrangement. The chief move makes put in the to this point new place that is known for Djelibeybi, situated in northern Klatch over the Circle Sea from Anhk-Morpork. This is a one of a kind domain of the Discworld, two miles wide and 150 miles in length. It is regularly alluded to as the Old Kingdom for a justifiable reason-it is very old, more than 7000 years of age truth be told. It is a betray arrive whose pharaohs are fixated on pyramid-building; other than bankrupting the nation, this fixation has additionally had the unanticipated outcome of keeping the nation immovably settled in previously. Pyramids is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, published in 1989, the seventh book in his Discworld series. [1] It won the BSFA Award for Best Novel [2] in 1989. Stepping-Stone Sword: Teppic uses knives this way, and notes that it's Awesome, but Impractical as you eventually run out of knives, and it can ruin their cutting edges. Camels have a very democratic approach to the human race. They hate every member of it, without making any distinctions for rank or creed.” You Bastard was thinking: there seems to be some growing dimensional instability here, swinging from zero to nearly forty-five degrees by the look of it. How interesting. I wonder what’s causing it? Let V equal 3. Let Tau equal Chi/4. cudcudcud Let Kappa/y be an Evil-Smelling-Bugger* (* Renowned as the greatest camel mathematician of all time, who invented a math of eight-dimensional space while lying down with his nostrils closed in a violent sandstorm.) differential tensor domain with four imaginary spin co-efficients. . .”