In the ninth part of\u00c2\u00a0Carpe Jugulum<\/i>, the witches seek out Granny Weatherwax. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well, this is the last thing I expected, but I GUESS I HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT. It was a possibility, but I thought Granny would at least respond to some form of appeal, but in hindsight? Yeah, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think Granny is necessarily behaving out of character. Her behavior might be exaggerated in some instances, but isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t this still the same character we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve known this whole time?<\/p>\n
In the scenes that lead-up to the trio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s confrontation to her, everything fits perfectly within what we know of Granny. All of the illusions are headology, aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they? Each of them prey on the fears and insecurities of the person who encounters them, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m willing to bet that Granny exploited the magical weirdness of the gnarly places to\u00c2\u00a0specifically<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0target these three people. She had to know that Nanny, Agnes, and Magrat would come after her, right?<\/p>\n
However, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure Granny knows all that much about the Perdita side of Agnes. (She might, but I am trying to remember their interactions in\u00c2\u00a0Masquerade<\/i>, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m drawing a blank.) Pratchett suggests something new here that I had not considered: Perdita is not simply Agnes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inner monologue, but more like a completely separate personality. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fascinating about this is that he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t then designate it as an illness or a flaw of Agnes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in this context. Perdita is often cruel and lacks compassion. Here, though? Perdita is a\u00c2\u00a0good<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0thing. When Agnes slips off the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bridge\u00e2\u20ac\u009d over the massive \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gorge,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0Perdita<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0who asserts herself so strongly that her version of reality is made true. Agnes doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fall to her death, but merely drops the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153eighteen inches\u00e2\u20ac\u009d into the stream below the bridge.\u00c2\u00a0It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very strange choice, but I also don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel remotely qualified to examine this in any real-world sense; I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have dissociative identity disorder myself.<\/p>\n
As for Granny Weatherwax, I\u00c2\u00a0think<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0I know what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on with her, but I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be sure if this a mood or emblematic of something much larger. Granny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s questioned her purpose before, but, as Nanny has mentioned multiple times, she also gets in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153moods.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d What makes me think this is much more serious is how wholesale her rejection is, despite the reluctance she expresses. Oh, that reluctance is definitely there, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, and you can see it in those \u00e2\u20ac\u0153infinitesimal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d pauses that are just a\u00c2\u00a0bit<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0too long. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m curious if Granny would have had such a strong reaction if Agnes hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t made the mistake of telling Granny what she\u00c2\u00a0ought<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0to do.<\/p>\n
Personally? We would have gotten this ending regardless. Granny believed that she had been insulted and hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been invited to Magrat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s naming ceremony, despite that she had. (But she knew, right?\u00c2\u00a0Right<\/i>?) It pushed her to this point, along with the realization that she could be replaced, and thus\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 life in a cave? Elsewhere? Who knows? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s believable, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another context to this all that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not revealed until after Nanny goes back to speak with Granny alone. (Though note that Perdita figures out that Granny is lying!) AND LORD, I WASN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T READY.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t beat \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem, Gytha,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Granny. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t beat \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fact.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Granny follows this with\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, shit. The truth, I guess. She can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t beat the Magpyrs. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been trying to stop them and break through their defenses, but she\u00c2\u00a0can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i>. Just hearing those words out of her mouth chilled me because THIS IS GRANNY WEATHERWAX WE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122RE TALKING ABOUT. She can\u00c2\u00a0do\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>anything, you know? However, maybe that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the case:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00c2\u00a0am<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0beaten, Gytha. Even before I start. Maybe someone else has a way, but I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m up against a mind that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s better\u00e2\u20ac\u2122n mine. I just about keep it away from me but I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get in. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fight\u00c2\u00a0back<\/i>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Thus, we are brought to a horrifying point: Granny isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t coming home, and the trio will not have her help. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on their own.<\/p>\n WHAT IS THIS BOOK.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_NMX3kGgmq4<\/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 ninth part of\u00c2\u00a0Carpe Jugulum, the witches seek out Granny Weatherwax. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld.\u00c2\u00a0<\/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":[526,463,248],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discworld","tag-carpe-jugulum","tag-mark-reads-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","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=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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