In the fifth part of\u00c2\u00a0The Last Continent<\/i>, OH MY GOD I GET IT. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOLY SHIT, I FIGURED SOMETHING OUT VERY EARLY ON, AND WHILE IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S NOT THAT IMPRESSIVE, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M STILL RUNNING WITH IT<\/p>\n
Mono Island<\/b><\/p>\n
So, early in this section, it was confirmed that the wizards were most certainly\u00c2\u00a0not<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0on Fourecks. Simply put: the Bursar and Runes could not have walked around the whole place while Ridcully took a nap. Where were they, then? Clearly, the Geography professor had spent a great deal of time in this place, enough that he had set up a camp of sorts. Yet where was\u00c2\u00a0he<\/i>? Enough time had passed that his UU notebook, with observations on Mono Island, had been eaten partially by ants. That implies that he hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t visited in some time.<\/p>\n
But these concerns were immediately eclipsed by one massive plot twist. Look, I was surprised to see Mrs. Whitlow because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so used to all scenes with the wizards being\u00c2\u00a0just<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0the wizards. Sure, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen her every so often, but she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a background character for the most part. Now? Well, she an\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exist in the background, can she? She\u00c2\u00a0has<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0to be part of the main story since none of the wizards know how to interact with women, and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now stuck with them. Why?<\/p>\n
BECAUSE SHE REMOVED THE STICK THAT HELD THE WINDOW OPEN AND NOW ALL OF THEM ARE TRAPPED ON MONO ISLAND UNTIL SOMEONE OPENS THAT WINDOW. Technically, I guess, but more on that in a second.<\/p>\n
The Key<\/b><\/p>\n
THIS WAS SILLY AND AMUSING AND THEN IT GOT SUPER REAL AND I LOVE HOW THIS SNUCK UP ON ME. The Trickster kangaroo \u00e2\u20ac\u201c now known as Scrappy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to be leading Rincewind to anything that made sense. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m re-reading this, and EVEN THE JOKE ABOUT THE VANDALS DRAWING IN CAVES IS PART OF THE SET-UP TO THE REVEAL OF WHAT THE TRICKSTER GOD WANTED RINCEWIND FOR. OH MY FUCKING GOD. This form of art is\u00c2\u00a0vital<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0to the story itself! First, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what provides the means of the god to move anywhere it wants, which is how Scrappy got down into the waterhole with Rincewind. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how Rincewind fell into\u00c2\u00a0every<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0waterhole, which gives his journal entries a whole new meaning. Yes, you could read them as nothing but a week of suffering, OR you could see them as a document of how Scrappy saved Rincewind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life at precisely the right time.<\/p>\n
But\u00c2\u00a0why?<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Obviously, Rincewind was wanted for a quest of some sort, but I mistakenly interpreted the faded petroglyph reveal as being a drawing\u00c2\u00a0of<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Rincewind. AND I WAS WRONG. SO WRONG. See, it took a bit of mental arrangement to put this together, to spin the continent and realize what Scrappy was talking about here. Why did it matter that this was the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153last continent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? Why show Rincewind a drawing of himself? Why was Scrappy so insistent that Rincewind had changed history by arriving??? IT DID NOT MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME. As far as I knew, he suffered in the desert for a week. How could that have altered tens of thousands of years of history?<\/p>\n
Rincewind is here to twist the last continent back into its proper place. Why?<\/p>\n
Rincewind turned and looked at the rock pictures again, the pictures that hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been there a few weeks ago and then suddenly had always been there.<\/p>\n
Figures holding long sticks. Figures in long robes. The artist had done a pretty good job of drawing something quite unfamiliar. And in case there was any doubt, you only had to look at what was on their heads.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yeah. We call them\u00c2\u00a0The Pointy-Heads<\/i>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0said the kangaroo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
MEANING THAT THE WIZARDS FROM UNSEEN UNIVERSITY TRAVELED BACK IN TIME. MEANING THAT RINCEWIND\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ARRIVAL IN XXXX PRECIPITATED THEM LOOKING FOR HIM TO TAKE THE LIBRARIAN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S PLACE, MEANING THEY ENDED UP SEEKING OUT THE GEOGRAPHY PROFESSOR, MEANING THAT SOMEHOW THEY GET OFF THAT ISLAND AND MAKE IT TO XXXX AND OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD, IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE.<\/p>\n
Well, this book just got a thousand times more interesting.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q4DNufYP2Do<\/p>\n
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