In the nineteenth and penultimate part of The Last Continent<\/i>, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that I understand this, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to try. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>. <\/p>\n
Okay, so, HUGE convergence in plots here, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a little confused about how this came about. I SHALL NOW PUBLICLY TRY TO FIGURE THIS OUT you can start laughing at me now<\/i>.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They always interfere,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Ponder. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what it is about wizards, they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just watch<\/i>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first appreciate the joke that the duck-billed platypus was created by committee, and that committee was made up of bickering wizards. I still want to hang out with one, though.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How high is this?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he croaked.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On the outside About half a mile, we think,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the Archchancellor.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And on the inside?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You climbed it. Two stories.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to tell me you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a tower that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s taller at the top than it is at the bottom<\/i>?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like a reverse TARDIS? Or a backwards TARDIS? My brain can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t handle it. But something about this tower inspired Rincewind to head back to the cellar of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153haunted\u00e2\u20ac\u009d brewery, and it utterly confused me. This tower is something special, all right, but why? Why does it matter? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s immediately after this scene that Pratchett has the Librarian play with a bullroarer, which causes ABSOLUTE CHAOS.<\/p>\n My theory, then, is geographical: what if Rincewind was at the exact same place the wizards were, just thousands of years in the future? And what if the wizards are responsible for the utterly unreal amount of thaumic\/magic energy in this<\/i> spot, which is why that tower does\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the thing? I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T EVEN UNDERSTAND IT. I mean, if the wizards weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there, then the old man who drew all those creatures in the rock wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have drawn them<\/i> into it, too. Which\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 messed up the rain???<\/p>\n Yeah, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m lost there. I get that the weird afterimage\/ghost thing that Rincewind sees is the wizards somehow poking through time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c time being a sensitive, strange thing in Bugarup \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still lost otherwise.<\/p>\n There, on a door, someone had drawn some pointy hats, in red. They glistened in the light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And this is the point where I start getting truly<\/i> lost. Someone painted that image on the door, which led to the second cellar, which hid the giant cave, which held the exact<\/i> place where the wizards were pulled into the present time. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of preparation, you know? Who did all of that? Except\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it just appeared<\/i>, of course, because of the magic of time travel. The wizards upset time and it appeared just<\/i> then to exist for thousands of years.<\/p>\n I think.<\/p>\n Which is why when Rincewind draws the wizards on the limestone in the cave and they appear, the cave reacts violently. They aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t supposed to be there! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time trying to correct itself!<\/p>\n Except how does this solve the problem of the rain? <\/i>I still get how this all went wrong! Well, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got one last part left, so maybe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make more sense then. I hope<\/i>.<\/p>\n http:\/\/youtu.be\/wuP1GCf4lk8?a<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – I am now on Patreon<\/a>! There are various levels of support, from $1 up to whatever you want! You’ll get to read a private blog, extra reviews, and other such rewards. I POST A LOT OF CUTE PHOTOS, OKAY. Think of it like a private Tumblr blog that only SPECIAL PEOPLE get to read.<\/b> In the nineteenth and penultimate part of The Last Continent, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that I understand this, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to try. Intrigued? 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\n– I have updated my list of conventions and events for the remainder of the year and much of next year. Check the full list of events on my Tour Dates \/ Appearances page.<\/a>
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