The Colour of Magic isn’t all about colours. There are lots of numbers on the Disc too. For example, eight (which I sometimes avoid using as much as a wizard but which I name by number here because it’s just too much trouble not to) is a common number because of octarine, the eighth colour …
You will, assuming you keep following along here, come to realize that Rincewind is about as indestructible as The Luggage. There’s a good reason for that. Well…there’s a reason for that. It stems from his time at Unseen University (UU) during which he made (as many university attendees will do from time to time) a …
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From time to time, Terry likes to play with the sounds of words. Twoflower has the honor of speaking the first pun in the Discworld series. He tries to explain insurance to Rincewind. Terry tells us that, since Rincewind has no idea what insurance is, what his ears hear is inn-sewer-ants. In other words, he …
Discworld is generally a creation of the British Georgian Era; that is, if you want to compare it to something a little closer to home. (I had originally thought of it as Victorian until I actually looked up the historical time periods and compared them to what Discworld inhabitants had available to them.) So, if …
Fire! In a normal world, a fire would be a huge cause of concern – especially if your entire city was ablaze, but at the beginning of our story, The Colour of Magic, it’s almost a sidelight. Pun intended here because Terry loves puns as much as or more than I do. Granted, there will …
