In the eighteenth and final part of\u00c2\u00a0Pyramids<\/i>, the Djel valley changes. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Change can be a difficult thing to go through, but I like that this book shows how quickly many of these characters were able to adapt to new circumstances. LET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S DISCUSS.<\/p>\n
Teppic \/ Ptraci<\/b><\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say that the power of choice is an important part of this narrative, given that a lot of the more moving scenes in this final part of\u00c2\u00a0Pyramids<\/i> revolve around these characters being able to do something \u00e2\u20ac\u201c anything, really \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that does not center around tradition. If we start with Teppic, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very easy to see how he rejects what is expected of him as a king. Because\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, he abdicates. He just washes his hands of the whole affair. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s his way of saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Like we see of Ptraci in her interactions with Koomi, Teppic discovers the brilliance of being able to refuse. Just outright saying NOPE! And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an awesome thing! (Though I found it strange that Teppic then doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let Ptraci say no to being queen. He kind of dumps the whole thing on her. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entertaining that she quickly realizes the power she holds, but I still think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of hypocritical of Teppic to celebrate his own rejection of this system while hoisting it upon Ptraci.)<\/p>\n
So what exactly\u00c2\u00a0does<\/i> an ex-king and mega-successful assassin do after all this? (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M SO HAPPY THAT PRATCHETT POINTED OUT THAT TEPPIC INHUMED A PYRAMID. That truly makes him the best assassin ever, right??? IN MY BOOK, IT DOES.) Well, the beauty of this is that Teppic has utter freedom to go wherever he wishes and do whatever he wants:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll avoid Ephebe,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Teppic said, ostensibly to the camel. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll go up the end of the Circle Sea, perhaps to Quirm or over the Ramptops. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all sorts of places. Maybe we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll even look for a few of those cities, eh? I expect you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Teppic helped bring change to Djel in a way that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ruin anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life. Hell, it made things\u00c2\u00a0better<\/i>. Plumbing. Mattresses. No death by crocodiles. And now, Ptraci is in power and utterly uninterested in a single goddamn ritual, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty spectacular.<\/p>\n
The Ptaclusp Dynasty<\/b><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called a bridge,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said IIb.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Is that like an aqueduct?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Ptaclusp.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In reverse, sort of thing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said IIb. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The water goes underneath, we go over the top.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n GODDAMN IT, NOW I CAN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T EVER LOOK AT BRIDGES THE SAME.\u00c2\u00a0EVER<\/i>. Thanks, Terry Pratchett.\u00c2\u00a0Thanks<\/i>.<\/p>\n Hors\u00c2\u00a0<\/b>D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122oeuvres\u00c2\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n I really wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure how Dil and Gern could ever readjust to the new world in the Djel. The Ptaclusp family were builders, so it stood to reason that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d find\u00c2\u00a0some<\/i> way to adapt. But Dil and Gern were embalmers! With the destruction of the pyramids, their jobs were rendered immediately obsolete.\u00c2\u00a0Or so I thought<\/i>. I read Dil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end as a joke about the fact that he always had to delicately handle internal organs as an embalmer, so food art was kind of second nature to him. But it was still nice to know that Teppic had ruined their lives. Like everyone else here, change was met with resilience. People may be hard to predict, but they generally do find a way to deal with most things.<\/p>\n In the Beginning<\/b>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/b><\/p>\n There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now a cyclical nature to Dios\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s character that I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ignore. Of course, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now built in to his story; after the Great Pyramid exploded, all of his time unraveled and HE STARTED AT THE LITERAL BEGINNING OF THE DJEL. With that, though, went most of his memories. Not all of them, though, and I wonder if Dios will repeat himself. Will he wind his way through time, exploiting the power of the pyramid? Or will this be his last \u00e2\u20ac\u0153life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? Pratchett doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell us, but Dios had spent thousands of years repeating himself. If there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s any monumental change to be had in this story, I think Dios\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s has the greatest potential. He just needs to\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well,\u00c2\u00a0die<\/i>.<\/p>\n I liked this book, but I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say that this was my favorite\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i> book. (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M STILL SUPER INTO\u00c2\u00a0WYRD SISTERS<\/i>, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL.) It was a treat to get a new culture on the Disc, set in a place we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d not been before. I have no idea what\u00c2\u00a0Guards! Guards!\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>is about or who is in it, but a lot of folks seem really excited about me starting it? I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW, people yell at me on Twitter about it, so I hope that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good thing!<\/p>\n The original text contains use of the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stupid\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crazed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wcSDWP64HvU<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – Mark Does Stuff is on Facebook!<\/a> I’ve got a community page up that I’m running. Guaranteed shenanigans! In the eighteenth and final part of\u00c2\u00a0Pyramids, the Djel valley changes. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[463,484,248],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discworld","tag-mark-reads-discworld","tag-pyramids","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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