...oh. NOW it makes sense.

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I'll get to that bit in a minute. But first, in case the RPage types were wondering: Yes, that one comment of mine refers to someone in particular. He graduated last year and I'll be quite happy if I never have to see him again.
Anyway. Ji - you remember how we were trying to figure out how Small Gods fits into the Discworld timeline? I'm rereading Thief of Time at the moment, and I think I found the answer. It doesn't.

The history of the country of Ephebe was puzzling, for example. Either its famous philosophers lived for a very long time, or inherited their names, or extra bits had been stitched into history there. The history of Omnia was a mess. Two centuries had been folded into one, by the look of it, and it was only because of the mind-set of the Omnians, whose religion mixed the past and future with the present in any case, that it could possibly have passed unnoticed.
--page 157 of the American (far as I know, anyway...) hardback. Susan reading up on history and paying attention.
Sounds to me like Pterry noticed something was screwy with the way things fit together in the timeline, and then came up with a clever explanation. XD

And now that that's over... I haven't mentioned yet, but we've got an extra dog this week (dog-sitting for a friend). Hyperactive, non-housebroken, ill-mannered.

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[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

*is confused by the complete meta of that paragraph* *trys and fails to comprehend it*
... Pterry hurts my brain, sometimes.

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Yeah, I know. Like most of Pyramids.

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yes. I loved that book good, though.

[minkhollow]

I liked it too, but it was just so... so...
mind-bending is the best description I've come up with. (And it's even literal in at least one case! XD)

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Aha, ha, ha to all those who went "Neer Xeno neer it's the present neer"* because now I Win. In my mind.
*Only nicer because they're not me.

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Oh, do I know the feeling.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Oh good. I'm not alooone.

[minkhollow]

it just doesn't fit. But then you think it has to, and then you think there's no way it can, and it turns into one of those vicious THINGS!

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

AIEEEEthings*runs*

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I meant like a cycle. (It's a roundabout Daria reference.) Not like Things.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I didn't think Things. I thought Issues That Never Let You Go Never Let You Go Jack-oh wait, she did.

[minkhollow]

Ohhhh.
And she did, didn't she? Defeats the purpose of the sop.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I know.
Makes me giggle.

[minkhollow]

Saw the movie for the boat rather than the actor, myself.
But that's because it's prolly my longest-standing obsession.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I saw it at the Best Friend's...I don't remember why.
I do remember his getting up to cover the TV so we could watch Jack draw instead of any actual nakedosity though. "Look at the shading!" said he.
Snicker.

[minkhollow]

::snerk::
I even had an internal editor when I was ten: No no no this is 1912 WHY IS FDR ON THAT DIME?!

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

::snerk::
Good. On. You.

PS: ...dime?

[minkhollow]

When she pays him. For the drawing. It's a dime, and it's an FDR dime, and no on ehad really HEARD of the man at that point.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Well, no.
I don't remember any dimes.
But it has been Many Years Or Something.

[minkhollow]

I prolly wouldn't remember it if they'd got it right.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Picky picky picky XD

[minkhollow]

Your point?

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I think it was something along the lines of Rave In.

[minkhollow]

::snerk!::