In the eleventh part of Thief of Time<\/i>, Lobsang learns an important lesson that is immensely disturbing, while Susan seeks out a witch. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.<\/p>\n
WHAT IS THAT ENDING. HOW DO I DEAL WITH THIS NOW????<\/p>\n
Saving Time<\/b><\/p>\n
I am so relieved that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to deal with the yeti dying. SO RELIEVED, FRIENDS. I was incredibly upset by the matter-of-fact way that Lu-Tze chopped off that yeti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head, but NEVER FEAR, IT WAS ALL A TRICK.<\/p>\n
Actually, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sort of the point. Lu-Tze really did decapitate this creature, but through this, Pratchett reveals THE COOLEST worldbuilding I may have ever come across in the Discworld<\/i> books. And it makes a lot of sense to me how<\/i> the yetis are able to use a genetic ability to their advantage. In short: they can save up a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d worth of time, which can be used in any instance as long as they allow something that causes their death to happen. They then immediately come back to life with the knowledge<\/i> of what might happen if this thing happens, and thus, they can avoid it. Because the thing never technically<\/i> happened, even though a yeti experienced it. Look, this makes total sense to me, and I have a prediction: at some point, either Lu-Tze or Lobsang will have to use this exact ability and<\/i> get it right the first time.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M A SEER.<\/p>\n
Susan<\/b><\/p>\n
Just kidding, because holy shit, I may have gotten something completely and totally wrong. There seemed to me to be the confirmation I needed about Lobsang, and it came from Death\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s instructions to Susan. This is the part I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m referring to, which is when Susan gets Lu-Tze\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lifetimer:<\/p>\n
HE IS LU-TZE, A HISTORY MONK. EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS OLD. HE HAS AN APPRENTICE. I HAVE LEARNED THIS. BUT I CANNOT FEEL HIM, I CANNOT SENSE HIM. HE IS THE ONE. BINKY WILL TAKE YOU TO THE MONK, YOU WILL FIND THE CHILD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a chance that the pronoun used here is referring to Lu-Tze, that Death can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find him<\/i>. Even if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case, I still feel like the fact that Death wants Susan to locate Lobsang is confirmation that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s part of this. Thus, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the son of Time that Death referred to in an earlier part of the book, right? So, after she tracked down the midwife, I thought we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be smooth sailing from there on out.<\/p>\n
I should have realized something was up once it was obvious to me that the midwife was Nanny Ogg, and that the scene at the opening of Thief of Time<\/i> was the birth of Time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s son. However, there are a number of details here, including the BIG one, that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t match up with my understanding here.<\/p>\n
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- The Father. He seems to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153foreign\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but otherwise just a person? So\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 not Time?<\/li>\n
- Except Time could<\/i> have manifested as a person but done something to the woman he got pregnant, given that she seemed wholly unprepared for the sheer weirdness of giving birth. You know, the whole PHASING IN AND OUT OF TIME AND REALITY THING.<\/li>\n
- He. HE. Pronouns again, and I am just fucking lost<\/i>. Did Nanny react the way she did because Time had a daughter<\/i>? If that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 look, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even have a theory who that would be. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no one else here who might fit that role except Lady LaJean, but we now know she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually an Auditor.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO THIS BOOK<\/p>\n
Ride it Out<\/b><\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been years since I read Good Omens<\/i>, but more than ever before, I really feel like a re-read would be fun. (Maybe on my own after I finish Thief of Time<\/i>.) If I have the dates right, Good Omens<\/i> came out before this one. And in that book, Pestilence had retired, right? Is this where he retired to, some tiny hospital? I LOVE THIS HEADCANON. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll remember every<\/i> part of Good Omens<\/i>, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m interested to see if they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be any odd crossovers or interesting thematic similarities.<\/p>\n
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