The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

22, 43, 51
    printing, Engravers’ Guild on, 182
    problem-solving, classic dilemmas revisited:
    poet and butterfly, 218
    riddle of the Sphinx, 61-2
    Schroedinger’s cat, 226
    truth-telling and lying guards, 118
    protocol, importance of observing, 120, 178, 179-80
    Ptraci, 57, 59, 60
    punctuation, as warning of madness, 153
    pyramids, 59
    Q
    Quia Ego Sic Dico, rule of, 294
    Quirke, Captain ‘Mayonnaise’, 128-9
    Quirm, 133
    Quoth (raven), 133, 134
    R
    Ramkin, Lady Sybil, see Vimes
    rats, plagues of, 138, 239
    of the Tribe, 240, 242
    See also Darktan
    reannual plants, 15, 33
    religion
    among dwarfs, 126-7
    among mayflies, 91-2
    among Nac Mac Feegle, 259
    as cause of war, 227-8
    misdirecting effects of, 112-13
    organized religion: endemic faults in, 197-8; priestly role in, 225
    See also belief, gods
    respectability, measure of, 133
    revolutionary spirit, 71-2, 142, 144, 233-4
    See also death in a worthy cause
    Ridcully Hughnon, 225
    Ridcully, Archchancellor Mustrum, 94, 95, 118, 171, 188
    and paperwork, 207, 270
    and Vetinari, 141
    heartiness and sporting interests, 81-2, 93, 135
    intellectual powers, 93, 119, 280
    leadership qualities, 93, 141, 188, 189
    on dangers of the unknown, 141, 167
    on parallel universes, 118-19
    on students, 170, 173, 270-1
    on the faculty, 96, 135, 170
    Rincewind, 13-16, 19-22, 24, 39, 44-8, 75-8, 142-5, 226-7
    and magic, 22, 24, 44, 45
    cowardice of, 15, 16, 45, 144
    encounters with Death, 14, 190
    instinct for survival, 14, 15, 76, 143-4
    justified pessimism, 15, 143-4
    on position in food chain, 19
    on running, 45, 47, 76, 189
    on Twoflower the tourist, 13, 21, 22
    on wizards, 47-8
    Ron, Foul Ole, 129, 137
    S
    safety drill, rats’, 240
    science and scientists, 47, 60-1, 167, 188
    See also Igors self-doubt, lack of
    in Cohen, 142
    in Granny Weatherwax, 103
    seven-league boots, 21
    sex
    Cohen on, 20
    dwarfs’ delicacy about, 87
    houses of ill repute/negotiable
    affection, 153, 161
    humour as compensation for, 58
    Nanny Ogg and, 106-7, 120-1
    sexual morrisment, 122
    wizards’ difficulty with, 14, 43-4, 45, 75
    Shades, the, 29, 34-5, 67, 94, 153
    sherry, Vimes on, 178
    shops
    effect of revolution on, 233-4
    for haute couture, 154-5
    for musical instruments, 133
    magic, 137
    Silver Horde, the, 143-6, 225
    attitude to money, 143
    simile, choice examples of, 13, 14, 22, 27, 30, 33, 35, 37, 43, 75, 81, 111, 137, 154, 181, 209, 275, 286, 291, 294
    sin
    nature of, 197-8
    original, 77
    unoriginal, 71
    singing voice
    of Brutha, 111
    of cats, 240
    of Nanny Ogg, 121
    of Ptraci, 57, 59
    of Victor Tugelbend, 84
    Six Beneficent Winds, 143, 144
    Smith, Eskarina, 28, 30
    snow, 169, 284
    soldiers
    advantages enjoyed by, 254
    Agatean, 145-6
    in Klatchian Foreign Legion, 134-5
    on battle experience, 183, 234
    priorities of, 51, 112
    uniform, 177, 254
    spectacle, importance of, 69
    spelling,
    effects of, 136
    importance of, 101, 167
    invention of, 38
    Sphinx, the, 61-2
    stamp collecting, 293
    Stationery Cupboard, the, 214-15
    Stibbons, Ponder, 118-19, 170, 171-2 188, 270
    Sto Helit, Susan, 133-4, 136, 167, 169, 173, 174, 214-15, 218
    stories, power of, 48, 104, 105-6, 240-1, 242-3, 244
    storm, 30
    stupidity
    in wizards, 119
    not determined by appearance, 30
    of demons, 77
    of gods, 112-13
    of sheep, 283
    simple differentiated from stupid, 126
    style, importance of, 120, 122
    superstition, 101, 227
    substition, 182
    See also beliefs
    survival traits
    among gods, 112
    among professional heroes, 142-3
    among swamp dragons, 126
    among yetis, 219
    in Ankh-Morpork, 126, 218
    See also evolution, Cohen, Rincewind
    T
    Tacticus, General, 253, 255
    tan, how to, 28-9
    Tawneee, 275, 279
    taxes, 94-5
    teachers, peripatetic, 247
    teaching, as profession, 38, 145
    Susan’s approach to, 214-15
    Teatime, Jonathan, 169, 172-3
    Teppic (Pteppicymon XXVIII), 57, 58, 61-2
    Thieves’ Guild, 66, 291
    thinking
    cats and, 239
    failure to think, 128
    styles of, 83, 170, 224-5, 242
    Thoughts, First, Second and Third, 260
    Thursley Eric, 75, 77, 78
    time
    control of, 59, 213, 215, 219
    nature of, 70, 71, 213
    trousers of, 70
    tortoises, 59
    trolls, 22
    and dwarfs, 126
    Chrysoprase, 136-7
    debt collection methods, 54
    Jade, 254
    troll bridge, 253
    See also Detritus, gargoyles
    trousers
    Granny Weatherwax on, 102
    of Time, 70
    truth, slipperiness of, 47, 187, 210
    Tugelbend, Victor, 82-5, 87
    Twoflower, 15, 16, 19, 21-2, 143
    Twoshirts, 260
    U
    Uberwald, 195, 196, 201
    Überwald, Delphine Angua von,
    see Angua
    universal laws, 29, 58,