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Interesting Times	comment	Interesting Times is the 17th Discworld novel, and the first since Eric which returns to Rincewind as the central character. However, thematically it's much more a look back at the first two Discworld books, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, and how much the setting has changed since then.Rincewind the wizard, peacefully bored at last, finds adventure nipping at his reluctant heels again due to a mysterious albatross received by the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, asking for the "Great Wizzard" to be sent to the Counterweight Continent - an Expy of the Orient. Strangely enough, while the Continent is well known to be wealthy and cultured, it's also known for extreme violence and overweening control of its citizens. Rincewind is fired off by magic to the unknown land with no idea of where he's going, what he's doing, or indeed which of the many, many people he meets is trying to kill him. Hint Almost everyone. He may be surprised to see some of the familiar faces who've ended up there, though...Preceded by Soul Music, followed by Maskerade. Preceded in the Rincewind series by Eric, followed by The Last Continent.
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Interesting Times / int_12c6bf73	type	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Interesting Times / int_12c6bf73	comment	Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Along with Death, War makes an appearance along with his sons Terror and Panic (i.e., Mars, Phobos and Deimos) and his daughter Clancy. It is family bonding, you see? Also, while War and his sons wear full body war armor, Clancy is wearing modern riding gear.
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Interesting Times / int_149f34b6	type	Pretty Butterflies
Interesting Times / int_149f34b6	comment	Pretty Butterflies: Even battlefields, although the ensuing thunderstorm caused by the flapping of the wings is less so. The character called Pretty Butterfly is a subversion; she is pretty, but she's also a badass rebel who scares Rincewind. (Not that scaring Rincewind is difficult.)
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Interesting Times / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Interesting Times / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: The Luggage encounters a female of its, er, species being menaced by three large ones covered in studded leather, and fights them off. By the end, they've produced four baby trunks.
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Interesting Times / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Interesting Times / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Four White Fox tells Cohen "I would rather die than betray my Emperor!" and is subsequently stabbed to death. Of course, this is due to the literal-minded Cohen misinterpreting his words as a request. Near the end when Twoflower stands up to Lord Hong because someone has to, "Whatever happens to them", the villain sneers "Yes, let everyone see what happens." Hong is then blown up by the Barking Dog sent back to counterbalance Rincewind, who had been whisked away by a teleport spell.
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Interesting Times / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
Interesting Times / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: The old tradition of barbarian heroism and adventuring is dying out as the Disc becomes more civilised; even the (comparatively) young Hrun, the mighty warrior and adventurer from The Colour of Magic has settled down and taken a steady job... as a city watchman, no less.
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Interesting Times / int_1bfe5406	type	Masochist's Meal
Interesting Times / int_1bfe5406	comment	Masochist's Meal: The parody of fugu from Pyramids shows up again used on purpose as a poison rather then as an accidental side effect of improperly prepared sushi.
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Interesting Times / int_1d037597	type	Haplessly Hiding
Interesting Times / int_1d037597	comment	Haplessly Hiding: the book sees an old barbarian hero looking to retire on one last grand adventure. Cohen the Barbarian decides to conquer the Discworld Expy of China. Having consolidated the Agatean Empire's throne-room on the death of the elderly and senile previous Emperor, Cohen looks around him and sees the room is amply stocked with very large vases which could easily accomodate a man. Being Genre Savvy, he walks up to one and starts talking, apropos of nothing, of all the things that could happen to a man hiding in such a vase, like for instance several gallons of boiling water. After hearing somebody throwing up inside the vase in sheer fear, Cohen grins, his point having been made, and asks the spy in the next vase if he's got everything he needs, is he okay for a notebook and a pencil sharpener, for instance?
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Interesting Times / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Interesting Times / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Near the end when Twoflower stands up to Lord Hong because someone has to, "Whatever happens to them", the villain sneers "Yes, let everyone see what happens." Hong is then blown up by the Barking Dog sent back to counterbalance Rincewind, who had been whisked away by a teleport spell.
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Interesting Times / int_1ee9819e	type	Scary Shiny Glasses
Interesting Times / int_1ee9819e	comment	Scary Shiny Glasses: Lord Hong. And later, Twoflower.
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Interesting Times / int_1f518822	type	Androcles' Lion
Interesting Times / int_1f518822	comment	Androcles' Lion: Kind of. Rincewind reluctantly saves the Quantum Weather Butterfly from drowning, which 'repays' him by creating a cloud over his head, raining on his hat until the small added weight makes him crash through the floor. However, this ultimately means he finds the Terracotta Army and saves the day.
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Interesting Times / int_1fbee9cb	type	Tricked into Escaping
Interesting Times / int_1fbee9cb	comment	Tricked into Escaping: When Rincewind and the Red Army are imprisoned, they soon find that their cells have been unlocked, the guards have been killed, and weapons have been provided. There's even a map to the Emperor's chambers. Rincewind knows perfectly well that this is Too Good to be True, and that the Red Army is being set up.
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Interesting Times / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Interesting Times / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Cannon: The wizards eventually give back the Barking Dog.
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Interesting Times / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Interesting Times / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Tried on Cohen, ends with an annoying courtier suffering a rather terminal case of indigestion. It's the one thing the Silver Horde refuses to do (Even Heroic Sociopathy has standards), saying that if they needed to kill people at dinner, they'd serve perfectly edible food and murder all the men with weapons once they were drunk. Poisoning is just cowardly, and you never know when you'll need that food yourself.
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Interesting Times / int_240c4ac3	type	Unusual Hiring Practices
Interesting Times / int_240c4ac3	comment	Unusual Hiring Practices: The Imperial Examination gets parodied with the Examination for the Post of Assistant Night-Soil Operative, which tests the candidates on poetry, literary criticism and music.
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Interesting Times / int_2517dac8	type	Boomerang Comeback
Interesting Times / int_2517dac8	comment	When Twoflower starts telling Rincewind how Cohen intends to reward him for his help, Rincewind denies it's possible that he'll ever seen such benefits: as soon as his back's turned, his usual bad luck will sneak up behind him and bang! Sure enough, on the very last page, something comes up behind him....
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Interesting Times / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Interesting Times / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Cohen's creed about "Always choose a bigger enemy, it makes him easier to hit" was previously used as Arc Words in The Carpet People.
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Interesting Times / int_26ec9be2	type	Cheerful Funeral
Interesting Times / int_26ec9be2	comment	Cheerful Funeral: Inverted. Rincewind sees people setting off fireworks in a parade and says "Good, eh?" to the old woman standing besides him, who snaps that it's Mr. Wu's funeral.
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Interesting Times / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Interesting Times / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: A game similar to Mahjong is repeatedly mentioned under the name Shibo Yangcong-San. Which is "Cripple Mr Onion" in a mix of Japanese and Chinese.
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Interesting Times / int_2a4deadc	type	Only You Can Repopulate My Race
Interesting Times / int_2a4deadc	comment	Only You Can Repopulate My Race: At the beginning, Rincewind is stuck on a tropical island and is found by a tribe of lovely Amazons (a regional curiosity for their white skins and blonde hair) who have lost all their men to a highly specific plague and require him to repopulate their tribe. Sadly, Rincewind is magically "rescued" before he can obtain his greatest fantasy... although, because Rincewind is a graduate of Unseen University (making him more or less a Celibate Hero) and is currently daydreaming about potatoes due to not having eaten them for ages, he gets... rather confused by the offer. From that incident onwards, Rincewind has basically confused pretty women and/or sex with potatoes. A footnote notes that, eventually, Rincewind will undergo therapy to get over this confusion, which will involve a pretty woman, a huge plate of potatoes, and a big stick with a nail in it.
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Interesting Times / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Interesting Times / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The thought of the Luggage causes the UU faculty to start carrying weapons. When it appears they start hiding.
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Interesting Times / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
Interesting Times / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: Which acts both in Rincewind's favour and against. By the time he's reached Hunghung, stories are spreading about how the Great Wizard summoned a dragon, and turned an old man into a mighty warrior, and blew up a wall by pointing at it. So when a bunch of guards chasing a wizard find a discarded pointy hat, they're reluctant to go near it, in case something horrible happens to them. Weaponized by Rincewind and the Red Army later, as seen under Suspiciously Specific Denial. Within an hour, Rincewind's own role in spreading the gossip is pointless, as the soldiers are now utterly terrified.
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Interesting Times / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
Interesting Times / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: "[complicated pictogram] the lot of 'em."
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Interesting Times / int_2ec219ee	type	Butterfly of Doom
Interesting Times / int_2ec219ee	comment	Butterfly of Doom: Repeated theme. The story is ultimately a game played by the gods on Dunmanifestin, and the Quantum Weather Butterfly (known to evade predators by creating small, localized tornados) is how The Lady enacts her will - by, example, depositing pollen on Hex to make its ants pause to lick it and thus throw off its calculations, or by creating a very small rain shower to wet Rincewind's hat and the tiny addition in weight to make him fall through the earth. One of the covers even has a butterfly on it, to encourage this trope.
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Interesting Times / int_2eeb91b2	type	The Runt at the End
Interesting Times / int_2eeb91b2	comment	The Runt at the End: The last of the four Luggage babies demonstrates that it takes after its "father" in bloody-minded spitefulness, by lingering to kick a downed enemy.
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Interesting Times / int_2efd276d	type	We Are Everywhere
Interesting Times / int_2efd276d	comment	We Are Everywhere: Lord Hong, and his spies. On hearing this, Cohen scans the room he's in, and asks the fellow occupying that conspicuously large vase if he needs anything.
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Interesting Times / int_309c05ec	type	Teleporter Accident
Interesting Times / int_309c05ec	comment	Teleporter Accident: The twenty foot wide, one inch thick, and extra crispy kangaroo.
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Interesting Times / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Interesting Times / int_319e4a2f	comment	It's the one thing the Silver Horde refuses to do (Even Heroic Sociopathy has standards), saying that if they needed to kill people at dinner, they'd serve perfectly edible food and murder all the men with weapons once they were drunk. Poisoning is just cowardly, and you never know when you'll need that food yourself.
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Interesting Times / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Interesting Times / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The Horde makes vague references to earlier adventures of theirs that probably happened decades previously. Some of them apparently involved killing people in rather gruesome ways.
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Interesting Times / int_3cb1ea33	type	Badbutt
Interesting Times / int_3cb1ea33	comment	Bad Butt: After he's been given the list of acceptable words, Truckle the Uncivil becomes this.
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Interesting Times / int_3e2c9723	type	We Win, Because You Didn't
Interesting Times / int_3e2c9723	comment	We Win, Because You Didn't: In the great game of the gods, the Lady isn't playing to win. She's playing not to lose.
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Interesting Times / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
Interesting Times / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Pretty Butterfly, who manages to oscillate between this and Wide-Eyed Idealist. She insults Rincewind and threatens him with potential knife-related death if he doesn't do what she says, but seems oblivious to the idea she and the revolution are being set up to take the fall until Rincewind helps her recognise it.
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Interesting Times / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
Interesting Times / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: How Rincewind gets "volunteered" into going to the Counterweight Continent - he can be sent to somewhere filled with people who almost certainly will want to kill him, or not go, in which case his title of wizard will be revoked (and if he tries claiming he's a wizard, Ridicully assures him he'll suffer the usual slow and painful fate of people what try claiming they're a wizard in Ankh-Morpork).
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Interesting Times / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Interesting Times / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Falling decidedly closer on the sweet side: the tyrants running the Agatean Empire are all crushed, and Cohen promises to introduce a (somewhat) more humane and efficient rule, but it comes at the cost of Saveloy's life. Oh, and Rincewind gets tossed to another dangerous land before he can reap any of the rewards for (accidentally) saving the day, but 1. He himself saw that coming, and 2. This saved his life from a vengeful Lord Hong.
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Interesting Times / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Interesting Times / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: "Lord Hong was enraged. Those who knew him could tell, by the way he spoke more slowly and smiled continuously." Conversely, when Twoflower confronts Lord Hong about his wife's pointless death in a meaningless scuffle between the lords, he's clearly the angriest he's ever been in his entire life, but he remains unflinchingly polite as he calmly requests that Lord Hong fight him. When his daughters attempt to dissuade him he even tells them that if they don't let him do this "I will become angry".
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Interesting Times / int_45c361e0	type	Unnecessary Time Precision
Interesting Times / int_45c361e0	comment	Unnecessary Time Precision: Rincewind asks Cohen the Barbarian how old he is. What century is it? Ninety to 95 years.
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Interesting Times / int_460afd98	type	Scary Science Words
Interesting Times / int_460afd98	comment	Scary Science Words: Saveloy (a geography teacher) mentions drumlins to Rincewind, who assumes it's something dangerous. In fact, they're just hills left behind by glaciers.
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Interesting Times / int_46cfd12f	type	Nothing but Skulls
Interesting Times / int_46cfd12f	comment	Nothing but Skulls: After Teach mentions them, Truckle becomes obsessed with the idea of having a mountain of skulls.
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Interesting Times / int_4830326a	type	Give Me a Sword
Interesting Times / int_4830326a	comment	Give Me a Sword: At least twice, and the second time is EPIC.
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Interesting Times / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Interesting Times / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Cohen and his men — at one point they defeat some Agatean samurai by claiming they can match their feat of cutting a silk cloth in three in midair with an Absurdly Sharp Blade. Cohen throws the cloth in the air then the Horde decapitate the samurai while they're looking up.
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Interesting Times / int_4a0f49cf	type	Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You
Interesting Times / int_4a0f49cf	comment	Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: Subverted as a kind of Hope Spot for Mr. Saveloy's survival: as the Silver Horde spitball ideas for the elaborate funeral they're going to hold for him, he reacts to each one - only for Death to show up a few sentences in to lead his ghost away.
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Interesting Times / int_4cf1658	type	Commander Contrarian
Interesting Times / int_4cf1658	comment	Commander Contrarian: Ridcully, showing the typical nature of a wizard when poking at the lit Barking Dog, ignores Stibbon's polite attempts to start saying "I don't think you should do that", mainly because Stibbons is saying things like "I don't think".
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Interesting Times / int_4ef62a4d	type	Full-Circle Revolution
Interesting Times / int_4ef62a4d	comment	Full-Circle Revolution: Rincewind can't help but remark on how the government the Red Army plans on setting up will be no different than the one they want his help overthrowing.
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Interesting Times / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Interesting Times / int_4f4372e9	comment	Rincewind's inaccurate mental picture of the Emperor recalls the Patrician who may or may not be Lord Vetinari in The Colour of Magic.
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Interesting Times / int_4f828b45	type	Post-Climax Confrontation
Interesting Times / int_4f828b45	comment	Post-Climax Confrontation: After the Red Army has routed the five Warlords' forces and cemented both Cohen's position as the new Emperor and Rincewind's reputation as "the Great Wizard", Lord Hong and a handful of surviving soldiers grab Rincewind and try to publicly execute him. It's not clear whether Hong genuinely had a chance of destabilizing Cohen's rule by proving the Great Wizard is "just" a man, or if he's just seeking one last bit of petty revenge.
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Interesting Times / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Interesting Times / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Lord Hong comes really close to being a Magnificent Bastard, but ultimately his arrogance and inability to put himself in the shoes of people he considers beneath him (ie everyone) prove his undoing. He is certainly no Vetinari, despite the similarities.
Interesting Times / int_4f84cdef	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_4f84cdef	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Interesting Times / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The punishment for putting up revolutionary posters? Getting your hands and feet cut off. If you're lucky (if the offender is a minor. If they ain't, it's head-on-spike time).
Interesting Times / int_50b05d30	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_50b05d30	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_50b05d30
Interesting Times / int_50f5dabe	type	Reincarnation
Interesting Times / int_50f5dabe	comment	Reincarnation: The Agateans believe in preincarnation — you'll be reborn as one of your ancestors. "Always respect your ancestors, in case one day you become them."
Interesting Times / int_50f5dabe	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_50f5dabe	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_50f5dabe
Interesting Times / int_516ac9a8	type	Viking Funeral
Interesting Times / int_516ac9a8	comment	Viking Funeral: One is discussed for Mr. Saveloy, and eventually taken up to eleven.
Interesting Times / int_516ac9a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_516ac9a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_516ac9a8
Interesting Times / int_539bb70d	type	Cosmic Chess Game
Interesting Times / int_539bb70d	comment	Cosmic Chess Game: What the gods of the Disc play with mortals, though chess specifically isn't always the game they play.
Interesting Times / int_539bb70d	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_539bb70d	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_539bb70d
Interesting Times / int_53ad7e6a	type	Asians Love Tea
Interesting Times / int_53ad7e6a	comment	Asians Love Tea: The Agatean Empire has a deep tea culture. The tea ceremony ("It took three hours, but you couldn't hurry a good cuppa") is one of the Great Arts that Lord Hong does perfectly, and some Agateans who talk to the barbarian ghosts from beyond the Wall are shocked to learn the world outside the Empire even has tea.
Interesting Times / int_53ad7e6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_53ad7e6a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_553d8a44	type	King on His Deathbed
Interesting Times / int_553d8a44	comment	King on His Deathbed: One of the central plot drivers. "The Emperor wasn't simply at death's door but well inside the hallway, admiring the carpet and commenting on the hatstand." He's still as insane as ever, but everyone around him is getting ready to vent grudges and/or fight for the throne the second he finally passes away.
Interesting Times / int_553d8a44	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_553d8a44	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_559b4bb3	type	Call to Agriculture
Interesting Times / int_559b4bb3	comment	Call to Agriculture: Parodied, when one of Cohen's horde confronted him with the fact that one time he stole a farm and wanted to settle down. It lasted about three hours.
Interesting Times / int_559b4bb3	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_559b4bb3	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_559b4bb3
Interesting Times / int_55d33017	type	Sheltered Aristocrat
Interesting Times / int_55d33017	comment	Sheltered Aristocrat: The Emperor is a very dark take on this trope. Because he was isolated from birth and no one has ever contradicted him (or at least, never survived contradicting him), he ends up as a sadistic Caligula type who has people horribly tortured to death or rewarded based on a whim.
Interesting Times / int_55d33017	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_55d33017	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_55d33017
Interesting Times / int_5617a782	type	All Asians Wear Conical Straw Hats
Interesting Times / int_5617a782	comment	All Asians Wear Conical Straw Hats: Rincewind discovers this to be truth when evading pursuit - he dons such a hat to look indistinguishable from everyone else and stands there with head bowed, waiting for the pursuit to pass him by.
Interesting Times / int_5617a782	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_5617a782	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_56866bd2	type	Never Wake Up a Sleepwalker
Interesting Times / int_56866bd2	comment	Never Wake Up a Sleepwalker: One of the wizards says that his grandmother always claimed that if you woke a sleepwalker their legs would fall off. A more sceptical wizard asks "How many times did she see it happen?"
Interesting Times / int_56866bd2	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_56866bd2	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_56866bd2
Interesting Times / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Interesting Times / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Agatean Empire is China mixed with Japan, and Fourecks is more or less Australia.
Interesting Times / int_57d43e40	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_57d43e40	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_57d43e40
Interesting Times / int_5a98b9af	type	Valkyries
Interesting Times / int_5a98b9af	comment	Valkyries: One comes to escort Mr. Saveloy to the afterlife. Complete with a horned helmet and Breast Plate.
Interesting Times / int_5a98b9af	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_5a98b9af	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Interesting Times / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: A two-for-one when the Wizards try to retrieve Rincewind. First, Hong's plans for dealing with Rincewind are thwarted as he is teleported away. Then, the Barking Dog is returned, fuse lit, which kills Hong when it goes off. The actions of the Quantum Weather Butterfly could be considered to make it a three-for-one, as it keeps Rincewind from being teleported at high-speed into the UU wall, sending a kangaroo in its place, but stranding Rincewind on Fourecks.
Interesting Times / int_60194b82	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_60194b82	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_60194b82
Interesting Times / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
Interesting Times / int_6366f900	comment	Old Warrior: The Silver Horde are all octogenarians (one of them is even in a wheelchair), but they still remain the most skilled warriors in the world, and easily win any fight they're in.
Interesting Times / int_6366f900	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_6366f900	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_6366f900
Interesting Times / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Interesting Times / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Twoflower knows Lord Hong has no idea his soldiers killed his wife, and as far as he's concerned that makes it worse.
Interesting Times / int_648fe274	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_648fe274	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_648fe274
Interesting Times / int_66408f6	type	Tea Is Classy
Interesting Times / int_66408f6	comment	Tea Is Classy: An Agatean Court Tea Ceremony can take up to two hours to complete before the tea is served. The unrepentantly unclassy Cohen just tells the servants to skip all that and just brew up a pot of tea and give it to him, allowing him to get a drink in under five minutes.
Interesting Times / int_66408f6	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_66408f6	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_66408f6
Interesting Times / int_66faa669	type	Silence, You Fool!
Interesting Times / int_66faa669	comment	Silence, You Fool!: During Rincewind's encounter with the Emperor, one courtier keeps yelling "silence" every time he tries to speak. Eventually, Rincewind gets a word in and asks if he could stop doing that, a position the Emperor agrees on. So the guy gets dragged away to have his lips cut off.
Interesting Times / int_66faa669	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_66faa669	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_67f56a51	type	Thrown from the Zeppelin
Interesting Times / int_67f56a51	comment	Thrown from the Zeppelin: When the Silver Horde conquers the corrupt and decadent Agatean Empire, they summon all of the previous emperor's servants, councilors, and concubines, reveal what has happened and encourage them to continue serving the new regime. The lord chamberlain declares that he would rather die than betray the Emperor and gets his wish, keeping anyone else from voicing similar thoughts.
Interesting Times / int_67f56a51	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_67f56a51	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_67f56a51
Interesting Times / int_681c1b78	type	All Asians Know Martial Arts
Interesting Times / int_681c1b78	comment	All Asians Know Martial Arts: Butterfly, Lord Hong, the Ninja, even the proprietor of the eating house where Rincewind asks for Agatean food as it is known in Ankh-Morpork. Twoflower, the Taxman, and the local Dibbler counterpart are three major exceptions, however - Twoflower can barely even lift a sword, let alone fight. That doesn't mean he won't try, however.
Interesting Times / int_681c1b78	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_681c1b78	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_681c1b78
Interesting Times / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Interesting Times / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Pretty Butterfly, as she and Rincewind talk about the Red Army, and how it's only Two Fire Herb's word on just how many of them there are out there. Rincewind, being the cynical bugger he is, has already guessed what's going on, and is trying to get Butterfly to see it.
Interesting Times / int_69cce3dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_69cce3dc	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_69f7765	type	Need a Hand, or a Handjob?
Interesting Times / int_69f7765	comment	Need a Hand, or a Handjob?: Right before he is magically teleported away, Rincewind is approached by several beautiful, scantily-clad women who explicitly say that all of their men have died out and they need his help repopulating their island. However, due to years of living alone on a desert island, Rincewind's mind has deteriorated somewhat and he thinks they're offering to make him some mashed potatoes. To be fair, they did promise him they'd satisfy all his desires, and at that moment, Rincewind happened to very strongly desire potatoes, having lived off coconuts and fish for far too long.
Interesting Times / int_69f7765	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_69f7765	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_69f7765
Interesting Times / int_6b1caa93	type	Adipose Rex
Interesting Times / int_6b1caa93	comment	Adipose Rex: Rincewind isn't quite sure what to expect of the Emperor, but his mental picture has room for a big fat man with rings. What he actually gets is a wizened old man half-buried in brocades and pillows.
Interesting Times / int_6b1caa93	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_6b1caa93	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
Interesting Times / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: Played pretty straight - the Agateans' Barking Dogs are primitive cannon (which the wizards understandably fail to recognise) yet they lack handheld firearms, which it didn't take the real China long to discover. Lord Hong himself ponders whether Barking Dogs might actually be more reliable if the Empire selected its gunsmiths based on practical metallurgical skill, rather than the ability to write poems about dew-dappled flower petals.
Interesting Times / int_6bcfbc7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_6bcfbc7e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_6c913a7d	type	Chessmaster
Interesting Times / int_6c913a7d	comment	The council of five mutually antagonistic warlords, including one amazingly competent Chess Master with a great readiness to sacrifice the lives of his followers, is rather reminiscent of Shogun.
Interesting Times / int_6c913a7d	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_6c913a7d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_6d1c2b3f	type	Lip Losses
Interesting Times / int_6d1c2b3f	comment	Lip Losses: During Rincewind's interrogation by the Emperor, a chamberlain keeps yelling "Silence!" whenever he tries to answer a question. Rincewind asks the Emperor if he could make the chamberlain stop saying that, not realizing that this is how he'd do so.
Interesting Times / int_6d1c2b3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_6d1c2b3f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_6e70b12b	type	Nominal Importance
Interesting Times / int_6e70b12b	comment	Nominal Importance: Invoked by Ponder Stibbons when he notices that Hex has started to think for itself, and reflects "We should never have named you. A thing with a name is a bit more than a thing."
Interesting Times / int_6e70b12b	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_6e70b12b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_6e8a4791	type	Heroic Comedic Sociopath
Interesting Times / int_6e8a4791	comment	Heroic Comedic Sociopath: The Silver Horde. Even Mr. Saveloy is frighteningly blasÃ© about mass murder.
Interesting Times / int_6e8a4791	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_6e8a4791	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_6ef186d3	type	Speaks in Shout-Outs
Interesting Times / int_6ef186d3	comment	Speaks in Shout-Outs: Three Yoked Oxen, the Dumb Muscle of the revolutionary cadre, speaks entirely in revolutionary slogans.
Interesting Times / int_6ef186d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_6ef186d3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_71e514b5	type	Don't Try This at Home
Interesting Times / int_71e514b5	comment	Don't Try This at Home: A footnote about fireworks safety to avoid exploding your nose.
Interesting Times / int_71e514b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_71e514b5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_71ee0f38	type	Beware the Honest Ones
Interesting Times / int_71ee0f38	comment	Beware the Honest Ones/Beware the Nice Ones: To the max.
Interesting Times / int_71ee0f38	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_71ee0f38	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
Interesting Times / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: The suggestions for how Mr. Saveloy is to be buried include a longship set on fire, a big pit atop the bodies of his enemies, a burial mound, and a longship set on fire on top of the bodies of his enemies under a burial mound.
Interesting Times / int_720e28a4	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_720e28a4	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_720e28a4
Interesting Times / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Interesting Times / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Lord Hong.
Interesting Times / int_73733868	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_73733868	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_74828b58	type	Strong Empire, Shriveled Emperor
Interesting Times / int_74828b58	comment	Strong Empire, Shriveled Emperor: The Emperor of the Agatean Empire. He's bedridden, has difficulty speaking, and the Empire is already experiencing internal power struggles... yet he still orders executions left and right, and his empire has nearly a million men under arms.
Interesting Times / int_74828b58	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_74828b58	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_76a08cd6	type	Friend or Foe?
Interesting Times / int_76a08cd6	comment	Friend or Foe?: The Silver Horde feels up to taking on odds of 700,000-to-7 because the opposing soldiers, probabilistically speaking, are more likely to hit each other than the heroes.
Interesting Times / int_76a08cd6	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_76a08cd6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_77552932	type	Character Shilling
Interesting Times / int_77552932	comment	Character Shilling: Ridcully of all people gives this to Rincewind as he reviews the faculties testimony about him. While legitimately an atrocious wizard he does have an amazing head for languages and an unbelievable survival instinct that lets him hang with people as dangerous as Cohen the Barbarian and survive.
Interesting Times / int_77552932	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_77552932	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Interesting Times / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Played With regarding Pretty Butterfly and Lotus Blossom, Twoflower's daughters. Rincewind insists that Twoflower hasn't mentioned having children and that the whole thing just came out of left field, but Twoflower keeps trying to play the whole thing off, insisting that he "must have mentioned it."
Interesting Times / int_77b03c0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_77b03c0a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Interesting Times / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Rincewind, upon being teleported to the Counterweight Continent also never gets to finish his Oh, Crap!.
Interesting Times / int_78270847	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_78270847	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_796bffea	type	Mistaken for Racist
Interesting Times / int_796bffea	comment	Mistaken for Racist: Rincewind mistakes himself for a racist, because he erroneously believes the word means someone who is good at running.
Interesting Times / int_796bffea	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_796bffea	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Interesting Times / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: As the Silver Horde are bickering about what to do now they've stolen the empire, Cohen asks them what they actually did with all their loot. None of them can even remember.
Interesting Times / int_7b6e47a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_7b6e47a5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Interesting Times / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: The ultimate fate of Bruce the Hoon, Truckle the Uncivil's old buddy. He got decapitated trying to lay siege to a castle. Also apparently happened to another barbarian hero named Slasher Mungo, in Skund. Caleb the Ripper optimistically describes him as presumed dead, since his head was all they found; apparently he believes the rest of him may have escaped.
Interesting Times / int_7e6c0522	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_7e6c0522	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_7f3e75b6	type	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
Interesting Times / int_7f3e75b6	comment	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: One Sun Mirror. When Rincewind finds the Terracotta Army, the only other thing he finds is a plaque, with just a name. The implication is pointed out: If you knew the name, you knew everything. To not know the name "One Sun Mirror" meant that all of his works, and everything based on those works, no longer existed on the face of the Disc.... though, in this case, it's just Rincewind who doesn't know who he is - everyone in the Agatean Empire does, because One Sun Mirror is the guy who founded it.
Interesting Times / int_7f3e75b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_7f3e75b6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Interesting Times / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Genghiz Cohen. Doer of mighty deeds. Slayer of dragons. Ravager of cities. He once bought an apple.
Interesting Times / int_808cbaeb	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_808cbaeb	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Interesting Times / int_8288929a	comment	Lord Hong promises an informant that he will never write or speak an order for his execution. He then folds an origami figure of the man... but doesn't have quite enough paper for a head.
Interesting Times / int_8288929a	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_8288929a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
Interesting Times / int_82d2715f	comment	Magitek: The introduction of literal Magical Computer Hex. Or at least its introduction in fully functional form; early experiments in ant-powered computing appear in Soul Music, this is the one where it adds to itself and gives answers without anyone doing anything.
Interesting Times / int_82d2715f	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_82d2715f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Interesting Times / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: Played with in the lead-up to the Horde's big stand. The fact that people (e.g, Twoflower) think the Horde have any chance at all infuriates both Lord Hong and Rincewind - "If it was seven against seventy, everyone would know who would lose. Just because it's seven against 700,000, everyone's not so sure." Teach points out that even if the Horde kill a few thousand each, the enemy will have fresh troops and they'll be tired. Cohen retorts that the fresh troops will also be tired, as they'll be running uphill at that stage.
Interesting Times / int_82f5ced1	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_82f5ced1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Interesting Times / int_83445b04	comment	Pun:
Interesting Times / int_83445b04	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
Interesting Times / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: Gold is so common in the Agatean Empire it has very little value. Inverted as well; when introduced to the concept of paper money, all Rincewind can think of is that his homeland hosts some very skilled and enthusiastic engravers... Which might be foreshadowing Making Money, where Moist introduces paper money and hires a Mad Artist counterfeiter to make the design as complicated as humanly possible.
Interesting Times / int_83856158	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_83856158	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_83ea0763	type	Rouge Angles of Satin
Interesting Times / int_83ea0763	comment	Even the reason they send Rincewind in the first place is Exact Words, or rather Exact Spelling of Words. They ask for the Great Wizzard, they're going to get someone who spells "wizard" with two Z's, namely Rincewind. Another suggestion that falls into this before they decide to send Rincewind is that they send the Dean because he's "great" in the sense of being big.
Interesting Times / int_83ea0763	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_83ea0763	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_8514979	type	Give Chase with Angry Natives
Interesting Times / int_8514979	comment	Give Chase with Angry Natives: Rincewind, pursued by the palace guard, finds himself trapped in the tsimo wrestlers' quarters. He gets out of it by pointing at one of the guards, claiming he has a pork sandwich on him, and escapes as the guards are crushed in the stampede.
Interesting Times / int_8514979	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_8514979	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Interesting Times / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Chinese Civil Service exams did involve writing complex poetic essays about irrelevant subjects. Much like British Civil Service exams focusing on Classical languages, they were looking for the ability to learn something technical and apply it extremely precisely. Both countries ended up having small bureaucracies governing vast stretches of the world with a reasonable level of skill, so they can't have been all that wrong. Of course, in this story the Empire isn't just testing for civil servants this way, they're also giving similar tests for craftsmen positions, such as selecting gunmakers because of their ability to write poems about iron rather than their ability to work it, resulting in a lot of defective cannons. It even extends to laborer positions: The civil service exam that Rincewind walks into is for a job centering around the disposal of manure, and nowhere in the exam is the applicant asked about whether they own a shovel or know what to do with one.
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Interesting Times / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Interesting Times / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: When Rincewind and Mr Saveloy are talking about being a teacher versus being a barbarian hero. Just before the big final battle, Cohen, supposedly feeling demoralised after everything, talks about surrendering. He even makes his own red flag just so he can talk to Lord Hong... about the nobles surrendering to him.
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Interesting Times / int_88b1a0cb	type	Atop a Mountain of Corpses
Interesting Times / int_88b1a0cb	comment	Teach points out that even if the Horde kill a few thousand each, the enemy will have fresh troops and they'll be tired. Cohen retorts that the fresh troops will also be tired, as they'll be running uphill at that stage.
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Interesting Times / int_8cd3d091	type	Repetitive Name
Interesting Times / int_8cd3d091	comment	Repetitive Name: Cities in the Agatean Empire, such as Hunghung and Nangnang.
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Interesting Times / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Interesting Times / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Truckle the Uncivil was evidently one before entering the Empire, where Mr. Saveloy insists he use "civilized swearwords."
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Interesting Times / int_928e13b9	type	He's Dead, Jim
Interesting Times / int_928e13b9	comment	He's Dead, Jim: The "really obvious injury" version.
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Interesting Times / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Interesting Times / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: Cohen accuses a group of mooks of "milling around like a lot of millers". The thing that went "parp" went parp. The Dean considers a tyrannical and repressive government an example.
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Interesting Times / int_9578bb87	type	Canis Latinicus
Interesting Times / int_9578bb87	comment	There's also a bit of Fun With Latatian when Ponder Stibbons attempts to identify the etymology of the word "teleport":
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Interesting Times / int_989e2092	type	Swap Teleportation
Interesting Times / int_989e2092	comment	Swap Teleportation: Teleportation is an experimental and very dangerous spell, requiring that the target be swapped with a counterweight of similar weight to balance out the momentum of the trip. Exploited when Rincewind gets teleported away from the Big Bad, leaving in his place a small cannon with a lit fuse...
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Interesting Times / int_98f19e68	type	Our Founder
Interesting Times / int_98f19e68	comment	Our Founder: Rincewind finds a statue of One Sun Mirror, on a pedestal of gold in a lake of quicksilver within his tomb; beneath a huge artificial hill built by the Forbidden City. He notes the inscription on it, which simply says "One Sun Mirror". The implication being that no-one standing there could fail to know who that was.
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Interesting Times / int_9abe931d	type	Quicksand Sucks
Interesting Times / int_9abe931d	comment	Ditches Suck: Rincewind ends up pelvis deep in a ditch while leading the Red Army. Fortunately, Twoflower was there to help him out, and Rincewind managed to wriggle out of the magic boots that were dragging him down.
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Interesting Times / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Interesting Times / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Lord Hong is this with respect to Lord Vetinari, having the latter's talent for Awesomeness by Analysis, but lacking his redeeming qualities and his clear insight into human nature, at least so far as guessing how the common folk will react to him or his plans. Of course, Hong considers peasants' nature to be less than human, so never saw any need to understand them in the first place.
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Interesting Times / int_9c91331e	type	Pose of Supplication
Interesting Times / int_9c91331e	comment	Pose of Supplication: It's a good position to launch into a sprint from...
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Interesting Times / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Interesting Times / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Pretty Butterfly's ability to converse fluently with Rincewind, and mentioning she was one of the first to see "What I Did On My Holidays", makes a little more sense when she turns out to be Twoflower's daughter. The Silver Horde discussing the strange land of Fourecks, where one of them washed up a while back.
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Interesting Times / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Interesting Times / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: Rincewind tries to convince Twoflower and his family that heroes don't automatically win against greater numbers, and that his own survival thus far has just been coincidence (a lot of coincidences). It doesn't take. Lord Hong believes that when the totally untrained Twoflower challenges him to a duel, wielding a sword he can barely lift, his opponent doesn't stand a chance. To be fair, there is every indication he would have been absolutely right if something totally unforeseeable hadn't happened at precisely the right moment.
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Interesting Times / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Interesting Times / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: One of the few books which mention the events of Sourcery. This is explained by saying that the wizards are all uncomfortable about what happened and try to pretend that they, personally, were nowhere near the University at the time, something that was first mentioned in Eric. It also further explains why they made Ridcully Archchancellor: he really wasn't there at the time. At the same time, we also get an idea of where this book and Sourcery fall in the Discworld's (admittedly wonky) timescale - for Rincewind, it's been ten years since then. There's the revival of the joke from Guards! Guards! — "Lord Snapcase was hung up by his figgin", which is apparently 'a small currant bun'; "either the meaning of words has changed over time, or there really is some horrifying aspect to suspending a man alongside a teacake". Somewhat unusually for Discworld, it accounts for the current Emperor being ancient when the last time we saw the Emperor as a boy in Mort by saying this Emperor murdered his nephew to gain the throne. Usually this sort of discrepency is just attributed to 'alternative pasts'. "What I Did On My Holiday" at several point has five pictures of urinating dogs - the sure sign of a diseased mind.
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Interesting Times / int_9ebfc83a	type	Japanese Politeness
Interesting Times / int_9ebfc83a	comment	Japanese Politeness: People of the Agatean Empire have this drilled into them, to the point where even rebels Waving Signs Around can't bring themselves to make the signs very strongly worded.
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Interesting Times / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
Interesting Times / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: Rincewind's encounter with a troupe of Noh actors. Unusually for this trope, the routine gets stopped early when Butterfly interrupts to explain the confusion because she's run out of patience: This is likely a Shout-Out to The Mikado:
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Interesting Times / int_a0eeac39	type	Odd Name Out
Interesting Times / int_a0eeac39	comment	Odd Name Out: Partly due to Retcons, almost everything Agatean introduced in The Colour of Magic (the character Twoflower with no space, the city of Bes Pelargic) doesn't fit with the more Chinese-like naming system used here. The Five Noble families that fight for control of the Agatean Empire are the Sungs, the Tangs, the Hongs, the Fangs, and the McSweeneys. This is lampshaded by alsomost everyone who hears them, as seen under Running Gag.
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Interesting Times / int_a10775b7	type	Mean Boss
Interesting Times / int_a10775b7	comment	Deputy District Administrator Six Beneficent Winds is uneasy in his role as a hostage of the Silver Horde until they offer him the Lord High Chief Tax Gatherer's job. The taxman likes the idea of getting to give the Mean Boss he now outranks a "good thrashing," lowering some of the Empire's more unreasonable taxes, and getting to wear a black hat with a red ruby button.
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Interesting Times / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Interesting Times / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Mentioned as one of the reasons it's unwise to depend on magic armor:
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Interesting Times / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
Interesting Times / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Lord Hong is the Grand Vizier. This being Discworld, Rincewind and Cohen lampshade the hell out of him. Lord Hong himself attempts to defy this trope, at least in the sense of striving to be sane and self-controlled. He's arguably Vetinari, minus Vetinari's redeeming feature of caring about his city. Later more successfully defied by Cohen, when he appoints Twoflower as his Grand Vizier.
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Interesting Times / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Interesting Times / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: What Cohen describes as "worse than whips": Whips of the soul.
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Interesting Times / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
Interesting Times / int_a5d92fce	comment	At the beginning, Rincewind is stuck on a tropical island and is found by a tribe of lovely Amazons (a regional curiosity for their white skins and blonde hair) who have lost all their men to a highly specific plague and require him to repopulate their tribe. Sadly, Rincewind is magically "rescued" before he can obtain his greatest fantasy... although, because Rincewind is a graduate of Unseen University (making him more or less a Celibate Hero) and is currently daydreaming about potatoes due to not having eaten them for ages, he gets... rather confused by the offer. From that incident onwards, Rincewind has basically confused pretty women and/or sex with potatoes.
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Interesting Times / int_a89348f2	type	Excuse Me While I Multitask
Interesting Times / int_a89348f2	comment	Excuse Me While I Multitask: Cohen fights multiple Ninja and rolls cigarettes at the same time.
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Interesting Times / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Interesting Times / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Twoflower, of all people.
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Interesting Times / int_a9f2e259	type	Mole in Charge
Interesting Times / int_a9f2e259	comment	Mole in Charge: Two Fire Herb is working for Lord Hong, shown right from the minute he appears. Mainly because someone needed to tell the Red Army how to actually revolt in order for Lord Hong's plan to work.
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Interesting Times / int_ac69035c	type	Master Poisoner
Interesting Times / int_ac69035c	comment	Master Poisoner: Lord Hong, the main villain, is one. At one point, his poison causes a man to explode.
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Interesting Times / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Interesting Times / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Lord Hong, after a moment of Didn't Think This Through, when he realises that he shouldn't have told his own soldiers that the ghosts of the people were rising up to fight the Silver Horde and their vampire ghosts. Those solders are heavily implied to have engaged in a lot of internal repression, creating many of those ghosts in the first place, and promptly desert. And he probably wasn't too happy in the few milliseconds between the Barking Dog cannon appearing and it firing at him.
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Interesting Times / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Interesting Times / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: This book introduces Rincewind's potato obsession. For which he eventually needed therapy.
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Interesting Times / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Interesting Times / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Cohen keeps calling huge Dumb Muscle guardsman One Big River "One Big Mother".
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Interesting Times / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Interesting Times / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Played With in the case of Lotus Blossom; Rincewind's tendency to think of potatoes when sexually aroused happens quite frequently when she's around, suggesting that she's very attractive, but we instead get leering descriptions of the food rather than of her.
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Interesting Times / int_b039b1d7	type	Split Hair
Interesting Times / int_b039b1d7	comment	Split Hair: The split-a-piece-of-silk variant appears, when a samurai attempts to intimidate Cohen the Barbarian. Cohen then subverts it by throwing up a bogey-covered hankie, and decapitating three of them as they look up before they realize what's happening.
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Interesting Times / int_b060856d	type	Big Book of War
Interesting Times / int_b060856d	comment	Big Book of War: The Disc's own counterpart to the actual Book of War by Sun Tzu. The Agatean Empire follow its instructions with an almost religious bent. Which raises a problem when the Silver Horde shows up, because they don't.
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Interesting Times / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
Interesting Times / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: Deputy District Administrator Six Beneficent Winds is uneasy in his role as a hostage of the Silver Horde until they offer him the Lord High Chief Tax Gatherer's job. The taxman likes the idea of getting to give the Mean Boss he now outranks a "good thrashing," lowering some of the Empire's more unreasonable taxes, and getting to wear a black hat with a red ruby button. Grand Assistant to the Lord Chamberlain Four Big Horns becomes Lord Chamberlain after his superior unwisely tells Cohen he would rather die than serve him. Four Bigs Horns doesn't seem too opposed to the idea of serving Cohen, but still betrays him due to fear of Lord Hong.
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Interesting Times / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Interesting Times / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: In The Light Fantastic, Twoflower got his Luggage from The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday and had apparently never seen one before. Here, they're a fairly common commodity within the Empire. Now he could have still gotten it from said shop but he never mentioned they were common back home.
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Interesting Times / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
Interesting Times / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: The Unseen University faculty still practised it the last time Rincewind was around, making some suspect that his return means it will come back. Among Agatean nobility, meanwhile, the practice never went out of fashion. However, the Imperial throne is not supposed to be claimed in that manner, which is why Lord Hong sets up the Red Army to be his patsies when he decides to do it anyway.
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Interesting Times / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Interesting Times / int_b588a9b6	comment	Too Dumb to Fool: One Big River. When asked if he would rather die than betray the Emperor, he replies "I think I rather live". He is noted to be a guard instead of a tsimo wrestler because he failed the entrance test by not eating the table.
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Interesting Times / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Interesting Times / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Deconstructed with Lord Hong. He's excellent at everything he attempts, but only because his civilization is so stagnant that the standards for almost every activity have declined hugely.
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Interesting Times / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Interesting Times / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: The noble families of the Agatean Empire: Hong, Sung, Fang, Tang, and McSweeney. (Very old-established family.)
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Interesting Times / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
Interesting Times / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Well, the Silver Horde are old men, getting on in age, not quite what they used to be and in need of occasional reminders in what order to do them, and that it's rape the women, burn the houses. (When Rincewind goes "Er," at the prospect of the Horde's performance in that first area, Cohen tells him not to ruin an old man's dreams.)
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Interesting Times / int_ba9073e6	type	Land Downunder
Interesting Times / int_ba9073e6	comment	Land Down Under: Rincewind ends up in the Fantasy Counterpart Culture of it at the end of the book.
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Interesting Times / int_baedeab5	type	Incomprehensible Entrance Exam
Interesting Times / int_baedeab5	comment	Incomprehensible Entrance Exam: An exaggerated version of the Imperial Examination system exists for nearly everyone in the Agatean Empire, not just bureaucrats - making it very much a version of the dysfunctional kind. Rincewind observes that one examinee's test for the post of night soil operative has zero questions on whether he knows how to use a shovel, and Lord Hong himself briefly considers that their cannons might not explode so often if they started rating metalworkers on their handiwork instead of their poetry.
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Interesting Times / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Interesting Times / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: It turns out that self-professed cynical coward Rincewind really, really doesn't like the idea of martyrdom for a cause, going on a fairly vitriolic rant about how pointless it is to sacrifice yourself for a cause. Cohen does not like it when Lord Hong uses his soldiers for cannon fodder to protect himself. Cohen also hates the passive mentality of almost all people in the empire (which is completely antithetical to his and likely One Sun Mirror's mindset), comparing it to chains. But not proper chains you can break out of, mental chains that you shackle yourself with.
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Interesting Times / int_bdb52ce9	type	Retired Badass Roundup
Interesting Times / int_bdb52ce9	comment	Retired Badass Roundup: The Silver Horde are the result of Cohen doing this as part of One Last Job, all of them are his peers and in some cases his superiors in terms of martial skill, badassery and more barbarian heroing stuff.
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Interesting Times / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
Interesting Times / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: The original Red Army.
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Interesting Times / int_bf9d2098	type	I'm Thinking It Over!
Interesting Times / int_bf9d2098	comment	I'm Thinking It Over!: A spy's response when Cohen asks if he would rather die than betray Lord Hong.
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Interesting Times / int_c2e2a445	type	Jade-Colored Glasses
Interesting Times / int_c2e2a445	comment	Jade-Colored Glasses: Twoflower, to some extent, after Lord Hong's men killed his wife.
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Interesting Times / int_c4525c1d	type	Intangible Theft
Interesting Times / int_c4525c1d	comment	Intangible Theft: Cohen the Barbarian asked if an omen was being used by anyone, and when he was told it wasn't, he declared that he'd stolen it.
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Interesting Times / int_c53d32bb	type	Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress
Interesting Times / int_c53d32bb	comment	Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress: When teleporting Rincewind across the (rotating) Disc, Ponder has to do some heavy calculations to keep him from ending up a smear. He still comes out the other end at great speed, as the "counterweight" they picked (the cannon) was heavier than expected.
Interesting Times / int_c53d32bb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_c53d32bb
Interesting Times / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Interesting Times / int_c75df49a	comment	This is likely a Shout-Out to The Mikado:
Interesting Times / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_c75df49a
Interesting Times / int_c78d3e08	type	Seppuku
Interesting Times / int_c78d3e08	comment	Seppuku: The local Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler equivalent is called Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala.
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Interesting Times / int_c78d3e08	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_c78d3e08
Interesting Times / int_c7ae6f12	type	Outscare the Enemy
Interesting Times / int_c7ae6f12	comment	Outscare the Enemy:
Interesting Times / int_c7ae6f12	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_c7ae6f12	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_c7ae6f12
Interesting Times / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Interesting Times / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: Rincewind thinks about it at one point, with the oft-mentioned fate of Mad Lord Snapcase (and his figgin) coming after he made Spooner Boggis eat his own nose. It wasn't the reason the people of Ankh-Morpork hung him up, it was just the last straw after years of his madness.
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_c819533b
Interesting Times / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
Interesting Times / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: The Agatean Court. Poison, murder and assassination are all part of the game. But they're tremendously polite about it.
Interesting Times / int_c9790040	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_c9790040	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_c9790040
Interesting Times / int_ca270ea2	type	We Have Those, Too
Interesting Times / int_ca270ea2	comment	We Have Those, Too: Rincewind and the local Dibbler equivalent: since Ankh-Morpork is much less xenophobic than the Empire ("We hardly ever kill foreigners, it makes it much harder to sell them stuff"), they have the edge in almost everything. Rincewind tries to impress Butterfly by telling her about the Luggage, only for her to show him they're pretty common over here.
Interesting Times / int_ca270ea2	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_ca270ea2	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_ca270ea2
Interesting Times / int_cca8c07b	type	"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name
Interesting Times / int_cca8c07b	comment	"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name:
Interesting Times / int_cca8c07b	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_cca8c07b	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_cca8c07b
Interesting Times / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Interesting Times / int_ce9f550c	comment	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Due to the aforementioned tonal nature of Agatean, many of Rincewind and Cohen's attempts to speak it.
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Interesting Times / int_ce9f550c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Interesting Times / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: In having Twoflower's wife killed, Pratchett really underscores the shift from Discworld as a lighthearted fantasy to a darker satire (albeit one which still has a lot of jokes).
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Interesting Times / int_cfdb9e17	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_cfdb9e17
Interesting Times / int_cffafc80	type	You, Get Me Coffee
Interesting Times / int_cffafc80	comment	You, Get Me Coffee: When Cohen becomes the Emperor the first thing he asks Twoflower to do is get him a cup of tea. And not to bother with the tea ceremony either, just bring the tea when it's ready.
Interesting Times / int_cffafc80	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Interesting Times / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Mr. Saveloy presents Truckle the Uncivil with a list of civilized swear words, forcing him to speak like this for the rest of the book. Since Mr. Saveloy is the one who made the list, and the only one who knows what various words translate to in Truckle-speak, readers can still look at his reactions to get a pretty good idea of just how shocking some of the things Truckle is saying are.
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_d0b60f23
Interesting Times / int_d2502c9b	type	Smoldering Shoes
Interesting Times / int_d2502c9b	comment	Smoldering Shoes: How Lord Hong ends up.
Interesting Times / int_d2502c9b	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_d2502c9b	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_d2502c9b
Interesting Times / int_d2e4289b	type	Calling Me a Logarithm
Interesting Times / int_d2e4289b	comment	Calling Me a Logarithm: One of the Silver Horde took exception with "venerable".
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Interesting Times / int_d2e4289b	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_d2e4289b
Interesting Times / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Interesting Times / int_d332bf54	comment	The Five Noble families that fight for control of the Agatean Empire are the Sungs, the Tangs, the Hongs, the Fangs, and the McSweeneys. This is lampshaded by alsomost everyone who hears them, as seen under Running Gag.
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Interesting Times / int_d332bf54	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_d332bf54
Interesting Times / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Interesting Times / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The Agatean lords' power base relies on millions of people believing that the lands outside the wall are full of vampires and ghosts. So when Rincewind claims that Cohen leads a massive army of ghosts from beyond the wall, they're unable to call his bluff despite knowing full well what he's up to.
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_d397657d
Interesting Times / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Interesting Times / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: The Silver Horde's preferred way of doing things.
Interesting Times / int_d45c0b86	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_d45c0b86	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Interesting Times / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Lord Hong. Unfortunately for him, he and his usual opponents are so locked into this way of thinking that the Horde (who we are told think "The king and pawns rush up the board and set fire to the opposing rooks" is a good opening gambit) completely blind-sides and dominates him. He almost wins anyway, but it's due to sheer numbers after all his plans and strategies have failed.
Interesting Times / int_d62dd556	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_d62dd556	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_d62dd556
Interesting Times / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Interesting Times / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: Two Little Wang regards his promotion as such - he's nearer the Emperor, and therefore nearer the chance of horrible, pointless death for no reason.
Interesting Times / int_d7472e4f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_d7472e4f
Interesting Times / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Interesting Times / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Dibhala, after hearing how there are not 2,300,009 ghost-vampires around, decides to go find a nice cellar and stay there until everything calms down.
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Interesting Times / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Interesting Times / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Butterfly, who knocks out palace guards with her bare hands/feet ("Can you all do that?").
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_dae5c997
Interesting Times / int_dd45df38	type	Unfortunate Names
Interesting Times / int_dd45df38	comment	Unfortunate Names: Two Little Wang is an Agatean bureaucrat who laments being born with such a name... because, of course, two is a very unlucky number.
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Interesting Times / int_de5f028b	type	Barbarian Hero
Interesting Times / int_de5f028b	comment	Barbarian Hero: As before, Cohen and his similarly ancient friends are a deconstruction - they've all had years of experience in not dying. They also turn out to be the last heroes left in the world, a point which will form the plot for the later work The Last Hero.
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Interesting Times / int_de953d10	type	Rage Helm
Interesting Times / int_de953d10	comment	Rage Helm: Some of the palace guards have actually cultivated the art of going to sleep on their feet, confident of not being detected behind the expressions of metal rage on their visors.
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Interesting Times / int_df60d405	type	Culture Chop Suey
Interesting Times / int_df60d405	comment	Culture Chop Suey: The Agatean Empire is a mixture of China and Japan, with occasional bits of other Asian cultures thrown in for spice.
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Interesting Times / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
Interesting Times / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: The Agateans believe history goes around in a three thousand year cycle. (Not the bits about the universe being created, obviously. That's just stuff.)
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_e003c829
Interesting Times / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Interesting Times / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: As per Fun with Foreign Languages above, all of the dialogue in the Agatean Empire scenes is written as it is heard by a native speaker, including the various foreigners' attempts to get the pitches correct. At one point Cohen runs into a problem with it, trying to explain clockwork to Six Beneficent Winds. The Agateans don't have the words for it.
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Interesting Times / int_e11b003d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_e12670cd	type	Freudian Threat
Interesting Times / int_e12670cd	comment	Freudian Threat: Cohen's idea of psychological warfare is staying up late, banging on your shield and shouting at the enemy "We're gonna cut your tonkers off!"
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Interesting Times / int_e22dae0a	type	Pretext for War
Interesting Times / int_e22dae0a	comment	Pretext for War: Lord Hong wants the rebels and their foreign ally to assassinate the Emperor as an excuse to launch a vicious counter-revolution, with his end goal being world domination.
Interesting Times / int_e22dae0a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_e22dae0a
Interesting Times / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Interesting Times / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: You'd rather die than betray your emperor? Okay! Cohen'll hold you to your word.
Interesting Times / int_e2a41c3b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_e2a41c3b
Interesting Times / int_e2f7ab99	type	Assassin Outclassin'
Interesting Times / int_e2f7ab99	comment	Assassin Outclassin': Lord Hong. Twice. Given this, it's unsurprising that he's eventually killed by a means no-one could possibly have predicted or planned for—Rincewind being randomly teleported away and replaced with a Barking Dog about to fire.
Interesting Times / int_e2f7ab99	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_e3fc617	type	Imperial China
Interesting Times / int_e3fc617	comment	Imperial China: Mercilessly parodied and taken up to eleven.
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Interesting Times / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Interesting Times / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Multiple: "There are not 2,300,009 invisible vampire ghosts." Also, the albatross that didn't give Vetinari a message which wasn't from the Counterweight Continent.
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Interesting Times / int_e7b1cb24	type	Old Master
Interesting Times / int_e7b1cb24	comment	Old Master: The youngest of the Silver Horde is pushing eighty. But since the average lifespan of your typical barbarian adventurer is less than five years, you don't get to be eighty-plus years old in that career unless you're very, very good at it.
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Interesting Times / int_e9432eb	type	Concepts Are Cheap
Interesting Times / int_e9432eb	comment	Concepts Are Cheap: Rincewind's opinion of any sort of cause in general. You've only got one life, but you can find another dozen causes on any street corner.
Interesting Times / int_e9432eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_e9432eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_e9432eb
Interesting Times / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Interesting Times / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Lord Hong promises an informant that he will never write or speak an order for his execution. He then folds an origami figure of the man... but doesn't have quite enough paper for a head. There's also the soothsayer who predicts the enemy will be defeated, but neglects to mention whose enemy. Then he gets the hell out of town in case Lord Hong figures it out. (A reference to the Delphic Oracle telling King Croesus of Lydia that "a great empire would fall" after an upcoming battle, but neglecting to specify which empire - the answer being, of course, the one that Croesus was ruling). Cohen is a bit literal-minded. He is told a number of times, "I would rather die than betray my Emperor!" and immediately grants what he misinterprets as a request. One Big River only survives because a) he is a bit slow to say those words and b) Teach interrupts him with the exact number of guards Cohen killed immediately after uttering them. Even the reason they send Rincewind in the first place is Exact Words, or rather Exact Spelling of Words. They ask for the Great Wizzard, they're going to get someone who spells "wizard" with two Z's, namely Rincewind. Another suggestion that falls into this before they decide to send Rincewind is that they send the Dean because he's "great" in the sense of being big.
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Interesting Times / int_eadc018f	type	Pinball Protagonist
Interesting Times / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: Rincewind, with Lady Luck playing the Machine against Fate. Well, technically it's a dice game but still everyone else is far more proactive then Rincewind who's just trying to et away.
Interesting Times / int_eadc018f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Interesting Times / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Two Fire Herb. Rincewind immediately pegs him as one, and the man does nothing to hide it. Rincewind is baffled by the fact no-one else in the revolution can see it. Pretty Butterfly, who manages to oscillate between this and Wide-Eyed Idealist. She insults Rincewind and threatens him with potential knife-related death if he doesn't do what she says, but seems oblivious to the idea she and the revolution are being set up to take the fall until Rincewind helps her recognise it.
Interesting Times / int_eb8ec7c8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_ee9018f6	type	Origami Gag
Interesting Times / int_ee9018f6	comment	Origami Gag: Played for extreme Gallows Humor where Lord Hong has promised a man to not speak nor write orders for his execution. When the man inevitably outlived his usefulness, Hong shows his guards an origami man — without a head.
Interesting Times / int_ee9018f6	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_ee9018f6
Interesting Times / int_eeaeb6df	type	Appeal to Obscurity
Interesting Times / int_eeaeb6df	comment	Appeal to Obscurity: Rincewind's reaction is that this is the sort of thing that'd never work on the Sto Plains. People would just get mad.
Interesting Times / int_eeaeb6df	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_eeaeb6df
Interesting Times / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
Interesting Times / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Almost literally; Rincewind's bizarre melding of his sex drive with his fondness for potatoes results in a few rather lovingly detailed descriptions of different ways of eating them at moments which would otherwise be sexually charged.
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Interesting Times / int_f5a6baa5	type	Assurance Backfire
Interesting Times / int_f5a6baa5	comment	Assurance Backfire: As their soldiers become increasingly worried about whether the Silver Horde really do have giant, invisible vampire ghosts on their side, Lord Hong gives the command to tell them that it doesn't matter, since they have ghosts on their side as well. After a while, his commanders report back that this hasn't made the troops happy, as they're of the opinion that these ghosts might not be of people they wanted to see again.
Interesting Times / int_f5a6baa5	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_f5a6baa5	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_f5a6baa5
Interesting Times / int_f7588306	type	Reverse Psychology
Interesting Times / int_f7588306	comment	Reverse Psychology: Used by Rincewind to intimidate the Agateans before facing the Silver Horde. He mentions certain techniques, such as using specific numbers ("There are not 2,300,009 of them") and that the best way to make people believe something is to tell them that you've been told to tell them it's not true.
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Interesting Times / int_f7588306	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_f7588306
Interesting Times / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Interesting Times / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: "Whut?" Translations of the word "Aargh!" and other linguistic troubles (see Fun with Foreign Languages). Rincewind associating pretty women with potatoes. "McSweeney?" "Very old established family."
Interesting Times / int_f9f2c33	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
Interesting Times / int_fabef10f	comment	At the risk of explaining the joke, War's daughter Clancy is named after Tom Clancy, creator of many war-related works.
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_fabef10f
Interesting Times / int_fad7b727	type	Fun with Foreign Languages
Interesting Times / int_fad7b727	comment	As per Fun with Foreign Languages above, all of the dialogue in the Agatean Empire scenes is written as it is heard by a native speaker, including the various foreigners' attempts to get the pitches correct.
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Interesting Times / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Interesting Times / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Rincewind and Twoflower's reunion comes when Twoflower takes out a chunk of the wall dividing them to tell Rincewind he's not allowed to talk to him. Rincewind notes this would normally work with citizens of the Agatean Empire. Saveloy is taken aback to realize that a fairly basic economic principle has been overlooked by the Silver Horde for their entire and very long lives, and has to spell it out for them:
Interesting Times / int_fbd285b7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interesting Times / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Interesting Times / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: Ridcully asks what kind of sad, hopeless person would need to write "WIZZARD" on his hat. The scene immediately cuts to Rincewind.
Interesting Times / int_fd16495f	featureApplicability	1.0
Interesting Times / int_fd16495f	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Interesting Times / int_fd16495f
Interesting Times / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Interesting Times / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: When Twoflower starts telling Rincewind how Cohen intends to reward him for his help, Rincewind denies it's possible that he'll ever seen such benefits: as soon as his back's turned, his usual bad luck will sneak up behind him and bang! Sure enough, on the very last page, something comes up behind him.... Near the beginning, it's pointed out that the tonal nature of the Agatean language can make for confusion, as when the word for "war leader" can be easily mispronounced as "antique chicken coop" or "male sexual organ". Near the very end, Cohen (who's picked up a smattering of the language) threatens to have people who annoy him kicked in the ancient chicken coops. At the introduction to the Horde, it's mentioned Caleb hasn't quite got the hang of certain aspects of barbarianism and which way around they're supposed to go. After the trawl through the pipe, he suggests that now they've gotten through it, they could try raping it.
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Interesting Times	hasFeature	Abdicate the Throne / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Absurdly Ineffective Barricade / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Absurdly Sharp Blade / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Adipose Rex / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Ambiguous Syntax / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Answer Cut / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Apologetic Attacker / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Appeal to Obscurity / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Assurance Backfire / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Atop a Mountain of Corpses / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Audience Murmurs / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Badass Teacher / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Badbutt / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Beneath Notice / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Beware the Honest Ones / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Bewitched Amphibians / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Big Book of War / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Black Comedy Rape / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	BlasÃ© Boast / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Bluff the Impostor / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Book Dumb / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Brits Love Tea / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	But Not Too Challenging / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Butterfly of Doom / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Call to Agriculture / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Calling Me a Logarithm / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Cheerful Funeral / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Chekhov's Army / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Clipboard of Authority / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Concepts Are Cheap / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Conveniently Cellmates / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Cosmic Chess Game / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Counter-Productive Warning / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Covered with Scars / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Crapsack Only by Comparison / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Culture Chop Suey / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Dangerous Deserter / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Decadent Court / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Defeating the Undefeatable / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Delayed Causality / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Don't Call Me "Sir" / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Doomed Moral Victor / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Dragon with an Agenda / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Dumb Is Good / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Dungeon Bypass / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Dystopian Edict / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Emergency Food Supply Animal / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	English Literature / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Epiphanic Prison / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Equivalent Exchange / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Evil Chancellor / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Evil Laugh / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Eyes Are Mental / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	F-- / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Fake Ultimate Hero / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Fantastic Naming Convention / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Foreign Queasine / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Founder of the Kingdom / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Four Eyes, Zero Soul / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Freudian Threat / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Full-Circle Revolution / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Full-Frontal Assault / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Fun with Foreign Languages / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Gender Rarity Value / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Give Chase with Angry Natives / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Glad You Thought of It / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	God-Emperor / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Good Old Fisticuffs / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Gratuitous Ninja / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Haplessly Hiding / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Heh Heh, You Said "X" / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	"Help! Help! Trapped in Title Factory!" / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Highly-Visible Ninja / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Hold Your Hippogriffs / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Human Chess / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	I Am One of Those, Too / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	I Like Those Odds / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	I Take Offense to That Last One / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	I Was Never Here / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Ice-Cream Koan / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Imperial China / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Implied Answer / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Impossible Task Instantly Accomplished / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Impossible Theft / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	In My Language, That Sounds Like... / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	...In That Order / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Instant Expert / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Instant Messenger Pigeon / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Instant Waking Skills / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Intimidation Demonstration / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Japanese Politeness / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Kidnapped by an Ally / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	King on His Deathbed / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Knuckle Tattoos / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Lady Land / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Language Drift / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Language Equals Thought / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Last-Second Word Swap / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Lawful Evil / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Layman's Terms / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Leg Cling / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Life Will Kill You / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Lightning Can Do Anything / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Lip Losses / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Man of Wealth and Taste / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Masochist's Meal / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Masquerading As the Unseen / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Master Poisoner / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Meaningless Meaningful Words / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Men Are Generic, Women Are Special / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Misfortune Cookie / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Mistaken for Badass / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Modern Major General / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Monumental Theft / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Motivational Lie / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Mundane Wish / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Myopic Architecture / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Nasty Party / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Necro Non Sequitur / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Need a Hand, or a Handjob? / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Never Wake Up a Sleepwalker / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Ninja / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Not Afraid to Die / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Nothing but Skulls / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Now What? / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Of the People / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Offhand Backhand / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Once for Yes, Twice for No / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Only in It for the Money / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Only You Can Repopulate My Race / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Opposites Attract / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Opt Out / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Origami Gag / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Our Founder / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Outscare the Enemy / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Parenthetical Swearing / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Passive Rescue / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Paying in Coins / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Phrase Catcher / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Pinball Protagonist / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Poison Is Evil / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Preemptive Apology / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Pretext for War / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Pretty Butterflies / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Prophetic Fallacy / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Rape, Pillage, and Burn / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Reflective Eyes / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Resistance as Planned / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Revealing Cover-Up / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Reverse Psychology / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Revolutionaries Who Don't Do Anything / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Rousing Speech / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Sacred Hospitality / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Screaming Warrior / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Sealed Army in a Can / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Seppuku / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Sheltered Aristocrat / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Silence, You Fool! / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Smart People Play Chess / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Smoldering Shoes / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Soldier vs. Warrior / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Spiked Wheels / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Split Hair / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Stab the Scorpion / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Stealth Hi/Bye / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Storming the Castle / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Stronger with Age / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Strongly Worded Letter / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Stupid Crooks / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Sumo Wrestling / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Super Wheelchair / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Swap Teleportation / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Tea Is Classy / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Teleportation Rescue / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Teleporter Accident / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	The Chosen Zero / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	The Hat Makes the Man / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	The Klan / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	The Social Darwinist / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	The Wall Around the World / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Theory of Narrative Causality / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	There Was a Door / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Threatening Shark / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Thrown from the Zeppelin / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Too Dumb to Fool / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Too Fast to Stop / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Translation: "Yes" / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Tricked into Escaping / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Try to Fit That on a Business Card / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Unnecessarily Large Interior / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Unusual Hiring Practices / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Uplifted Animal / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Valkyries / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Vancian Magic / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Vengeful Ghost / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Verbing Nouny / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Viking Funeral / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Walk on Water / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Walls of Tyranny / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Waving Signs Around / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	We Have Those, Too / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	We Need a Distraction / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Weirdness Censor / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	What the Fu Are You Doing? / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Wicked Cultured / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Wild Card Excuse / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Working Title / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	Yellow Peril / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	You Are Already Dead / int_740815bb
Interesting Times	hasFeature	You, Get Me Coffee / int_740815bb

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