In the third part of Thief of Time<\/i>, Lu-Tze meets his new student and Jeremy has an odd interaction with Igor. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Oh, this is all so STRANGE. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m here for it. LET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S DISCUSS.<\/p>\n
Lu-Tze and Ludd<\/b><\/p>\n
There are already so many characters in this novel that I hope it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel too crowded, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be real with y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad that Lu-Tze is getting his own story instead of being a background character. Which\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sort of the point of him? He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a background character within the Discworld universe because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s supposed to do! Quietly exist in the background and lead the Monks of History in making sure the fabric of time\/history doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come unraveled.<\/p>\n
Which makes it SUPER EXCITING that there is now a chance for me to get to learn more about these monks through Lobsang Ludd, the eerily talented kid who Marcos Soto found in Ankh-Morpork. Pratchett has a lot of fun playing with the tropes you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d normally see attached to this kind of story. (The whole monk\/student interaction.) There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that great sequence where one of the training monks (not a History Monk, I should say) insults Lu-Tze as the sweeper before promptly wetting himself when he finds out who he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really talking to. (Hey, he was warned! The first Rule!) Appearances aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t what they seem, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that simply. I do love the idea that Lu-Tze\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very existence is a challenge to the classist and hierarchal ideas present in most societies. Even Ludd can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wrap his mind around him:<\/p>\n
And he was just a sweeper! One of the people who swept the floors and washed the clothes and cleaned the privies! No one had ever mentioned it! Novices heard about Lu-Tze from their very first day \u00e2\u20ac\u201c how he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d gone into some of the most tangled knots of time and unraveled them, how he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d constantly dodged the traffic on the crossroads of history, how he could divert time with a word and used this to develop the most subtle arts of battle\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Obviously, Lu-Tze\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s physical appearance plays a part in the subversion of his identity, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also a glorified janitor. A janitor who is more revered and respected than anyone else in the entire monastery! I LOVE THIS, I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THIS. But I also <\/i>enjoy that someone as rebellious and different as Ludd is paired with Lu-Tze. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fit in where he was in the Guild, and so I can imagine a BEAUTIFUL partnership between these two. So\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that fulfills one of my predictions, right? They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t despise one another at all!<\/p>\n
Jeremy<\/b><\/p>\n
I AM GONNA GO AHEAD AND SAY THAT WHEN YOU RECEIVE COMPLETE PLANS FOR A MYTHICAL DEVICE ONLY FOUND IN CHILDREN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S TALES THROUGH DREAMS AND YOU WRITE DOWN THOSE PLANS ON YOUR BEDSHEETS <\/i>WHILE YOU ARE ASLEEP<\/i><\/b>, YOU SHOULD PROBABLY NOT CONSTRUCT THAT DEVICE.<\/p>\n
Oh, Jeremy. I understand the allure it holds for him. The perfect timekeeper! He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s have the ability to claim he built the perfect<\/i> clock! Yet this is like watching a horror film full of foolish protagonists. Every other line, I felt like screaming NO DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T DO THAT THIS IS A BAD IDEA EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU IS WARNING YOU NOT TO DO THIS.<\/p>\n
That includes Igor! Igor nearly faints when he sees the design for the Glass Clock that Jeremy wants to build. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Properly Capitalized. That means it is evil! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how that works!!! AND THIS CERTAINLY DOESN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T MAKE ME FEEL GOOD.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you telling me it really existed?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Igor seemed embarrassed about this.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yeth,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and then again, no.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Things either exist or they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jeremy. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am very clear about that. I have medicine.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It exithited,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Igor, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and then, after it did, it never had.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it stops time? What does that mean<\/i>? Oh god, Jeremy, I want you not to do this, but I also need you to just so I can see the end result, which surely won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be good. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know what the Auditors are up to yet, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all!!!<\/p>\n
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