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The Last Continent

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The Last Continent	comment	The 22nd Discworld novel and the sixth in the Rincewind theme. Was written at the same time as The Science of Discworld and there is some obvious relationship, such as the mention of Slood and the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.At Unseen University, the wizards are concerned as the Librarian has contracted a form of magical flu which interferes with his morphic field, turning him into random beings and objects every time he sneezes. In order to cure him of these transformations, they need to know his real name, but he refuses to tell them as he's afraid someone will use it to turn him back into a human. The wizards realize that beside the Librarian, only Rincewind (who was Assistant Librarian for a time) could potentially remember this name.Unfortunately, the events of Interesting Times have left Rincewind stranded in the outback of Xxxx, the Last Continent, and he's still there, somehow surviving on the burning desert. This is because, as a Trickster posing as a kangaroo named Scrappy tells him, he's been kept for a purpose: he has to bring rain back to the arid continent. Rincewind immediately runs away, of course, but these quests have a way of sneaking up on you regardless.Back in Ankh-Morpork, the wizards, looking for the Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography to help them navigate to Xxxx, discover that he's missing and his office conceals a portal to a nice sunny island. They, and housekeeper Mrs Whitlow, all end up trapped there.Meanwhile, Rincewind travels haphazardly across Xxxx, meeting (and running away from) strange people and having (and running away from) adventures.Will Rincewind bring back the rain? Will the wizards find their way back home? Will Ponder Stibbons discover the truth about evolution on the Discworld? And what's up with that weird kangaroo guy?Preceded by Jingo, followed by Carpe Jugulum. Preceded in the Rincewind/Wizards series by Interesting Times, followed by Unseen Academicals (or The Science of Discworld, if you're including it).
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The Last Continent / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
The Last Continent / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: Some temporal wonkiness briefly regresses Mrs. Whitlow to a young woman, and the wizards discover that, though she now has a 'face made of chins', once upon a time she was a drop-dead gorgeous redhead.
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The Last Continent / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Last Continent / int_1439161f	comment	Of course, it gets worse, resulting in perhaps the only time when a wizard goes into a serious Heroic BSoD, when he learns that the God of Evolution's "ultimate life form" isn't the sapient human being. It's the cockroach.
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The Last Continent / int_15f76026	type	Inexplicably Identical Individuals
The Last Continent / int_15f76026	comment	Inexplicably Identical Individuals: The series-wide Running Gag about foreign versions of CMOT Dibbler continues with Rincewind encountering one in Bugarup, selling meat pie floaters.
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The Last Continent / int_172c04fb	type	The Old Country
The Last Continent / int_172c04fb	comment	There's been a millennia-long drought in FourEcks. Some of the settlers have grandparents who say that in The Old Country water used to fall out of the sky, but everyone who grew up there thinks that's ridiculous.
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The Last Continent / int_17b5862b	type	Chariot Pulled by Cats
The Last Continent / int_17b5862b	comment	Chariot Pulled by Cats: When some Mad Max-style raiders trying to get at Mad the dwarf's cargo show up, they use carts being pulled by a variety of things that are very notably not horses (including one that's essentially a unicycle pulled by an emu, as described by someone who has never heard of such a thing). It's mostly to illustrate how utterly insane Fourecks is.
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The Last Continent / int_17fe889f	type	Goal-Oriented Evolution
The Last Continent / int_17fe889f	comment	Goal-Oriented Evolution: The plants' goal is to evolve into something the wizards will take with them, and away from Mono Island.
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The Last Continent / int_185ea595	type	The Trickster
The Last Continent / int_185ea595	comment	The Trickster: Scrappy, who is explicitly introduced this way, and the narration notes that the term 'trickster' is rather inappropriately jollier than what such beings generally get up to in mythology.
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The Last Continent / int_18a51384	type	All Beer Is Ale
The Last Continent / int_18a51384	comment	All Beer Is Ale: The book notes that "Ankh-Morpork beer was technically ale, that is to say, gravy made from hops", in the context of explaining why Rincewind doesn't take the light, fizzy stuff they have in Fourecks seriously at first... until he wakes up with little memory of the previous evening.
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The Last Continent / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Last Continent / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "This is the last continent. It was made... later, and... differently."
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The Last Continent / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
The Last Continent / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Don't make camp under a eucalyptus tree in Fourecks, or the Drop-Bears will attack you. But if you're a wizard, you're probably safe, on account of your pointy hat.
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The Last Continent / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
The Last Continent / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: Rincewind's Trickster Mentor, Scrappy the Bush Kangaroo.
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The Last Continent / int_22ed5d74	type	Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables
The Last Continent / int_22ed5d74	comment	Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: Mono Island's plants frantically evolve into forms that the wizards mention a need for — handkerchiefs, tinned cakes, a giant gourd/boat — so their seeds can come along and be spread elsewhere.
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The Last Continent / int_27a40541	type	Furry Confusion
The Last Continent / int_27a40541	comment	Furry Confusion: In the bar in Dijabringabeeralong.
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The Last Continent / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
The Last Continent / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Tinhead Ned's message, read by Rincewind in the jail cell, strongly suggests that Ned is one, at least in part.
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The Last Continent / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
The Last Continent / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Ponder Stibbons' penultimate Break the Haughty crossed with Break the Cutie comes in this book, courtesy of A) being stranded on an island which has some very strange ideas about evolutionary process, and B) being stranded on aforementioned island with Ridcully and the UU faculty. Of course, it gets worse, resulting in perhaps the only time when a wizard goes into a serious Heroic BSoD, when he learns that the God of Evolution's "ultimate life form" isn't the sapient human being. It's the cockroach.
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The Last Continent / int_2e0c6c38	type	Eskimos Aren't Real
The Last Continent / int_2e0c6c38	comment	Eskimos Aren't Real: There's been a millennia-long drought in FourEcks. Some of the settlers have grandparents who say that in The Old Country water used to fall out of the sky, but everyone who grew up there thinks that's ridiculous. On the other hand, they're so used to finding fresh water by digging that they're convinced that the underground supply must be inexhaustible, and find the idea that it might be running out absurd to the point of incomprehensible. Whenever Rincewind tries to point out that the lack of rainfall means the supply isn't being replenished, they look at him like he's stupid and say, "What are you talking about? It's water!"
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The Last Continent / int_2e406a1	type	Hollywood Evolution
The Last Continent / int_2e406a1	comment	Hollywood Evolution: Invoked and deconstructed. At one point, a rampaging theropod dinosaur spontaneously transforms into a chicken.
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The Last Continent / int_2ec219ee	type	Butterfly of Doom
The Last Continent / int_2ec219ee	comment	Butterfly of Doom: The wizards have a long discussion about the risks of altering the past after realizing that they have been stranded in the past. Ponder tries to use an ant as an example to warn them about temporal paradoxes, without much success as Ridcully himself is a believer in a Stable Time Loop.
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The Last Continent / int_30f48597	type	When It Rains, It Pours
The Last Continent / int_30f48597	comment	When It Rains, It Pours: But it was a lot of pent-up rain. (And that is how rain works in monsoons.)
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The Last Continent / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Last Continent / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: Rincewind comes up with the idea of hanging corks from his hat to keep the flies off. The Ecksians say that if it worked, someone would have thought of it before.
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The Last Continent / int_34fb81a1	type	Randomized Transformation
The Last Continent / int_34fb81a1	comment	Randomized Transformation: The Librarian changes into a random object every time he sneezes.
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The Last Continent / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
The Last Continent / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: A very complicated one, but a stable time loop all the same. Yes, turns out Mustrum Ridcully was right.
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The Last Continent / int_378a8006	type	World-Healing Wave
The Last Continent / int_378a8006	comment	World-Healing Wave: The Wet can be seen this way. There's also a bit of an Inferred Holocaust though, since it's replacing 30,000 years of water all in one go, and some people — certainly, many sheep — must have been unable to get to high ground.
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The Last Continent / int_3d226e02	type	Pineapple Ruins Pizza
The Last Continent / int_3d226e02	comment	Pineapple Ruins Pizza: A lengthy footnote about how it is possible to get edible (even delicious) examples of the most unappealing varieties of fast food ends by adding one exception: "Even so, there is no excuse for putting pineapple on a pizza."
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The Last Continent / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
The Last Continent / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: On The Lost Continent.
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The Last Continent / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
The Last Continent / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: The residents of Fourecks always throw their politicians in prison immediately after they're elected, to save time.
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The Last Continent / int_485011b	type	MadLibsCatchPhrase
The Last Continent / int_485011b	comment	Ponder's inner monologue claims the faculty have a collective Mad Libs Catch Phrase: "You don't get proper fill-in-nouns these days—remember old "nickname" ancient-wizard-who-died-fifty-years-ago-who-Ponder-wouldn't-possibly-be-able-to-remember? Now there was a wizard who knew his fill-in-nouns." He starts quoting it himself when the randomised magic field of Xxxx's creation temporarily causes him to rapidly age up to the other wizards' age.
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The Last Continent / int_49bbfaee	type	Everything's Better with Rainbows
The Last Continent / int_49bbfaee	comment	Everything's Better with Rainbows: After the Wet, the Australian Creator throws his multicoloured boomerang into the sky, where it sticks.
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The Last Continent / int_4b8f361c	type	Readings Blew Up the Scale
The Last Continent / int_4b8f361c	comment	Readings Blew Up the Scale: Ponder's magic-measuring thaumometer melts when the magic field used to create XXXX exceeds its limit of one million thaums.
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The Last Continent / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Last Continent / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Parodied. The narration says Ponder's "There's only one of everything" should be one of these, with the others having horrified looks and saying things like "By George, he's right!" but... well, these are wizards, and their response is to argue about it. They also immediately take the news that they are in the past in stride. These are men who will argue for hours about how it can't possibly be Thursday, but accept that it's thousands of years ago without question.
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The Last Continent / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
The Last Continent / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: Dangerous Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Jellyfish, Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans, Grasses, Trees, Mosses, and Lichens of Terror Incognita, Volume 29c, Part Three.
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The Last Continent / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
The Last Continent / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: Ponder intends to leave the wizards to be an apprentice to the God of Evolution, but when he learns that the god's perfect creation was intended to be the cockroach, he goes back to the wizards post-haste.
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The Last Continent / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Last Continent / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: According to the preface, Xxxx is not Australia, it just happens to be, here and there, "vaguely Australian".
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The Last Continent / int_5adf099a	type	Fictional Constellations
The Last Continent / int_5adf099a	comment	Fictional Constellations: They're used as a sign the wizards have travelled back in time, and to estimate how far.
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The Last Continent / int_5bddf95f	type	Talk About the Weather
The Last Continent / int_5bddf95f	comment	Talk About the Weather: Rincewind's default topic of conversation with the natives of Fourecks. And he doesn't understand why people keep getting angry and chasing him with weapons when he makes inconsequential comments like, "Bit dry, eh? When was the last time it rained around here?"
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The Last Continent / int_5c8fa553	type	Level Ate
The Last Continent / int_5c8fa553	comment	Level Ate: Mono Island features not only soft-boiled egg trees, chocolate-filled coconuts, and nuts full of runny cheese, but also cigar and spoon bushes.
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The Last Continent / int_60c0d584	type	Objectshifting
The Last Continent / int_60c0d584	comment	Objectshifting: The Librarian is afflicted by a magical strain of the flu that warps his already-twisted morphic field and causes him to transform at random —most commonly into an inanimate object: a chair, a hot water bottle, a book— all of them recognizable by a covering of red fur.
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The Last Continent / int_6342241e	type	CartoonPhysics
The Last Continent / int_6342241e	comment	Cartoon Physics: Snowy the "horse" seems to operate under this trope, unhesitatingly trotting up and down vertical cliffs and even standing on the underside of an overhanging ledge as if they're level ground.
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The Last Continent / int_63557923	type	Death World
The Last Continent / int_63557923	comment	Death World: where spiders use their web as trampolines to jump on your face and have venom capable of making wood smolder. Also, see Everything Trying to Kill You below.
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The Last Continent / int_65244998	type	Lightning Can Do Anything
The Last Continent / int_65244998	comment	Lightning Can Do Anything: It cures the Librarian's flu.
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The Last Continent / int_69916bfa	type	Amusingly Short List
The Last Continent / int_69916bfa	comment	Amusingly Short List: Death asks his library for a list of all the non-dangerous creatures on Fourecks. He gets a single sheet of paper with "Some of the sheep" written on it.
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The Last Continent / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
The Last Continent / int_69c5fb9e	comment	Recursive Crossdressing: One of the transvestites Rincewind encounters actually is female, and laments "Being a female impersonator is no job for a woman."
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The Last Continent / int_766c1cc6	type	Who Would Be Stupid Enough?
The Last Continent / int_766c1cc6	comment	Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: Knowing what wizards are like, Ridcully attaches a note to the prop keeping the portal open: "Do not remove this prop. Not even to see what it does." The good news is it wasn't a wizard who moved it in the end. Also, "What kind of idiots put beer in tins?"
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The Last Continent / int_796bffea	type	Mistaken for Racist
The Last Continent / 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. Once he finds out what it actually means, he is surprised but realizes he isn't one after all — he only categorizes the world into "people who are trying to kill him" and "people who are not."
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The Last Continent / int_7a277296	type	Airport Novel
The Last Continent / int_7a277296	comment	Airport Novel: Referenced/parodied when it's stated that any novel taken to a beach will spontaneously turn into a Door Stopper conspiracy thriller with at least one Greek letter in the title. The Lecturer in Recent Runes' book turns into The Omega Conspiracy.
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The Last Continent / int_7b077e8c	type	Stumbling Upon the Lost Wizard
The Last Continent / int_7b077e8c	comment	Stumbling Upon the Lost Wizard: The wizards stumble upon the God of Evolution, who opted for self-exile after he destroyed a city in a fit of pique.
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The Last Continent / int_7d3290a1	type	No Can Opener
The Last Continent / int_7d3290a1	comment	No Can Opener: On XXXX, they've invented tinned beer, but not pull tabs, and as Rincewind doesn't have a can opener he's forced to open his beer with a pointy rock, getting badly sprayed in his first few attempts.
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The Last Continent / int_85ad623	type	Worrying for the Wrong Reason
The Last Continent / int_85ad623	comment	Worrying for the Wrong Reason: There are very few poisonous snakes in XXXX... because most of them have been eaten by the spiders.
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The Last Continent / int_8877b270	type	Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My
The Last Continent / int_8877b270	comment	Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My: On Roundworld, a Drop Bear is a malicious koala variant made up by Australians to frighten tourists. On Discworld, a Drop Bear is a malicious koala variant that actually exists. Although if you tell the locals about it they'll laugh at you, because they know it was made up to frighten tourists.
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The Last Continent / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
The Last Continent / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: Xxxx's spacetime is so convoluted that, for example, it's implied that the modern Ecksian wizards may be the descendants of the stranded UU faculty, but the UU wizards being brought to the present does not cause them to cease to exist. This is a reference to the Aboriginal concept of the Dreaming, which works in a similar way.
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The Last Continent / int_9141fba3	type	Fountain of Youth
The Last Continent / int_9141fba3	comment	Fountain of Youth/Rapid Aging: When the wizards arrive at pre-XXXX, the ambient magic starts playing havoc on their temporal glands. The result is while the senior faculty become toddlers and tweens, and Mrs. Whitlow returning to her prime, Ponder Stibbons turns into an old man.
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The Last Continent / int_92d7976	type	You Keep Using That Word
The Last Continent / int_92d7976	comment	You Keep Using That Word: Rincewind used to call himself a racist, before he learned it didn't mean "someone who will run in any race".
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The Last Continent / int_9578bb87	type	Canis Latinicus
The Last Continent / int_9578bb87	comment	Canis Latinicus: ''Nullae Sheilae Sanginae" and "Nullus Anxietas", the BU mottoes. For those whose Latin is a bit rusty, those translate to "No Bloody Sheilas" and "No Worries" respectively.
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The Last Continent / int_959f08aa	type	Vetinari Job Security
The Last Continent / int_959f08aa	comment	Vetinari Job Security: With the Librarian ill, the wizards don't even dare open the Library door without protective gear, as nobody else is competent to handle its aggressive books.
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The Last Continent / int_95ef5b0d	type	Symbol Swearing
The Last Continent / int_95ef5b0d	comment	The very name of the continent itself refers to Castlemaine XXXX beer, a brand that is genuinely popular in Australia, but was the subject of a long and famous series of TV advertisements in Britain playing on all manner of Australian stereotypes echoed in the novel, with the tagline "Australians wouldn't give a... Castlemaine four-X for anything else".
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The Last Continent / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
The Last Continent / int_96d2ce42	comment	In Vino Veritas: Rincewind's personality almost inverts when he drinks enough of the local beer, and at one point has to remain sufficiently drunk to figure what he needs to do.
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The Last Continent / int_977d4b19	type	Tree Vessel
The Last Continent / int_977d4b19	comment	Tree Vessel: Done with a tree that's been made into a boat by the local god of evolution. The leaf is a sail, the hull is a floating seed, etc.
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The Last Continent / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
The Last Continent / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: After five books of constant peril, Rincewind finally finishes his adventure without getting immediately sucked into another one. He even has time to say goodbye to everyone he met before heading home.
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The Last Continent / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Last Continent / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: A footnote mentions the role of the "temporal gland" early in the novel. Fast-forward a bunch of pages, and...
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The Last Continent / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Last Continent / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The wizards notice the stars over Mono Island are unfamiliar and at first think they are on another world. Ponder figures out that it's actually the past (the stars on Discworld change as Great A'tuin swims through space) by noting that a much larger nebula in the sky is, in their time, known as the Small Boring Group of Faint Stars. This was mentioned way back in The Light Fantastic as Rincewind's zodiacal sign.
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The Last Continent / int_a04e64a4	type	InvoluntaryShapeshifter
The Last Continent / int_a04e64a4	comment	Involuntary Shapeshifter: The Librarian's illness causes him to transform into whatever shape seems appropriate to his surroundings whenever he sneezes. He does retain his red fur.
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The Last Continent / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
The Last Continent / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: The God of Evolution, who interestingly enough considers himself an atheist and takes a very dim view of religion. He starts out as an incorporeal god, until he needs to take a form that the wizards can interact with.
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The Last Continent / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
The Last Continent / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: A common part of the humour in Rincewind's interactions with the locals who a regularly just making up new vocabulary and idioms to fit they're new environment. A late conversation sums up the problem nicely.
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The Last Continent / int_af5edbff	type	Myopic Architecture
The Last Continent / int_af5edbff	comment	Myopic Architecture: While the door, walls, and bars of Rincewind's prison cell are thick and sturdy, and the lock was also very tough, the hinges on the door were half-pin, meaning the door could simply be lifted off its hinges. Small wonder the previous occupant kept escaping.
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The Last Continent / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Last Continent / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Mrs. Whitlow (according to the Senior Wrangler, at least).
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The Last Continent / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
The Last Continent / int_b426973b	comment	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: When XXXX's ancient magic starts changing the wizards' ages, they briefly find themselves acting as if they are that old. Or young. Ridcully says that fighting it is a good way to restore yourself.
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The Last Continent / int_b43217a5	type	Battle Boomerang
The Last Continent / int_b43217a5	comment	Battle Boomerang: The XXXX Creator's boomerang is described as one that does not return to whoever threw it, generally because it's lodged in the ribcage of whatever he threw it at. Truth in Television: Hunting boomerangs are designed to be thrown accurately at an animal, not to return to the thrower.
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The Last Continent / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
The Last Continent / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: There's a brief one (also referenced in The Science of Discworld) where it talks of a famously stupid race somewhere in the cosmos that watched a world-shattering comet strike a neighbouring planet - and then did nothing about it "because that sort of thing only happens in Outer Space". This is a reference to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet and the bit about outer space is in fact a real Too Dumb to Live quote from some woman on the news.
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The Last Continent / int_bc536406	type	Land Downunder
The Last Continent / int_bc536406	comment	Land Downunder: Although the author claims it is not. It isn't from the Literal-Minded point of view: on the Disc there is no "under" (at least, not for walking-about-on-the-ground-type species). It is more the Land Over Rimward. (One of Scrappy's comments implies the explanation that Australia and Xxxx are different places but were designed and constructed by the same Creator.)
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The Last Continent / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Last Continent / int_bc74ef27	comment	The word "monkey" is the Librarian's Berserk Button. When the Senior Wrangler accidentally says it near the ill Librarian and he does nothing, the wizards become convinced that the Librarian's not long for this world.
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The Last Continent / int_bcff3e56	type	The Last Title
The Last Continent / int_bcff3e56	comment	The Last Title: The title.
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The Last Continent / int_c28f97b8	type	Indian Burial Ground
The Last Continent / int_c28f97b8	comment	Indian Burial Ground: Subverted; Rincewind's guess that the beer factory got cursed this way was mistaken, as the natives didn't want the site and were happy to hand it over.
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The Last Continent / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
The Last Continent / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: Why drop bears shouldn't employ their traditional attack strategy against someone wearing a pointy hat.
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The Last Continent / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Last Continent / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Rincewind encounters a mad dwarf in a heavily armed and armored cart and a trio of travelling transvestites, inspires a folk song similar to "Waltzing Matilda"note Once a moderately jolly wizard camped by a dried-up waterhole under the shade of a tree he was completely unable to identify. And he swore as he hacked and hacked at a can of beer, saying, "What kind of idiots put beer in tins?", and invents a dessert called "Peach Nellie" in honor of an opera singer (much like Peach Melba in the real world). Rincewind also invents a black, tar-like substance that tastes foul and smells faintly of vegetables (in an attempt to drunkenly make vegetable soup with a tin of beer that he leaves on the fire as he falls asleep), which nobody is able to actually stop eating, very much like Vegemite. (Or, to some readers, Marmite, which is a similar-but-not-identical product.) Two in the fight scene between Mad and a random Ecksian bar-goer. "You call that a knife? This is what I call's a knife." "No worries. This is what I call a crossbow." And another with Scrappy the Bush Kangaroo. The drunken Rincewind drawing a picture of the Faculty: "Can you tell what it is yet?" He also apparently drunkenly sings "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" while at the bar in Didjabringabeeralong. The very name of the continent itself refers to Castlemaine XXXX beer, a brand that is genuinely popular in Australia, but was the subject of a long and famous series of TV advertisements in Britain playing on all manner of Australian stereotypes echoed in the novel, with the tagline "Australians wouldn't give a... Castlemaine four-X for anything else". Rincewind's chase after the mob of wild horses, astride a nondescript mount named Snowy. "The Man from Snowy River" should be playing in your head about now. Tinhead Ned is an Expy of famed Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. "Can you hear that thunder? ... We'd better take cover..." are from the song Down Under by Men at Work. Another musical reference when Rincewind describes himself as 'Mental as anything', which is the name of a popular Aussie band. The idea that Xxxx was made after the rest of the Discworld, by a separate Creator, and differently, is a reference to the fact that when Australia was discovered, some European naturalists found its flora and fauna so alien and bizarre that they joked that had obviously had a Creation separate from that of the rest of the world. Likewise, the God of Evolution really does have "an inordinate fondness for beetles", a reference to a J.B.S. Haldane quote (and from the description, is pretty obviously meant to look like Charles Darwin). In our world, the platypus has been jokingly referred to as "a duck designed by committee". In Discworld, it was. Ridcully mentions the spell "Maxwell's Impressive Separator", which uses tiny demons to separate a mixture of two substances. This is a reference to the Maxwell's demon thought experiment. The Librarian's book-form is referred to as The Story of Ook by one of the wizards. A playful jab is made at Michael Moorcock and his Eternal Champion, and Joseph Campbell's theory of The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Death muses that Rincewind is the opposite, 'the Eternal Coward... with a thousand retreating backs.' Mono Island itself is a comedic take on Stanley G. Weinbaun's 1936 Astounding Stories tale, "Proteus Island". When the Bursar is talking about the figurehead on the boat that the God of Evolution made, he describes it as a bare naked lady. The late Egregious Professor's rank as UU's chief geographer may be a reference to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in which Dirk refers to Prof. Chronotis - another eccentric whose college apartment let him pop back to the past for a holiday - as "the egregious Professor" rather than "Regius Professor". Ridcully's quip about the traditions of Unseen University ("niggling, big dinners, and shouting damn-fool things about keys in the middle of the night") is a reference to a quote (often attributed to Winston Churchill) about the traditions of the British Navy being "rum, sodomy, and the lash". The thing with the keys itself is a reference to a real tradition at the Tower of London.
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The Last Continent / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
The Last Continent / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: The first appearance of XXXX in Reaper Man says that it's home to a lost colony of wizards "who wear corks around their pointy hats". In this book, the Ecksians haven't come up with that idea yet.
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The Last Continent / int_cd8ca67a	type	DoubleSubverted
The Last Continent / int_cd8ca67a	comment	Also, Ridcully disparages Ponder's use of a thaumometer by saying "Licking your finger and holding it up was always good enough in my day". Initially this is a surreal gag because magic measurement systems on Discworld are a parody of temperature measurement systems on Roundworld, and this would work with temperature measurement but not magic. Then it's Double Subverted when Ridcully actually does this on Xxxx and his licked finger glows with an aura of purple and octarine light that lets him judge the strength of the magic field.
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The Last Continent / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
The Last Continent / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: The God of Evolution is an atheist. But also a god.
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The Last Continent / int_d2cd18c0	type	Forbidden Fruit
The Last Continent / int_d2cd18c0	comment	Forbidden Fruit: Wizards are invariably attracted to it. Subverted in that they actually manage to resist this time, at least for a while. Their housekeeper, on the other hand...
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The Last Continent / int_d3d94018	type	Girls with Moustaches
The Last Continent / int_d3d94018	comment	Girls with Moustaches: Rincewind (who grew up in Ankh-Morpork and HATES being anywhere else) certainly believes this is common in some rural districts. This led to him thinking that certain mustachioed people wearing dresses in a city on XXXX were women who happened to have mustaches, instead of cross-dressed men.
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The Last Continent / int_d439c910	type	Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup
The Last Continent / int_d439c910	comment	Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup: How the wizards end up creating the Platypus. They were trying to draw a duck. (This is a reference to an old saying that a platypus is like a duck designed by a committee.) The Creator (who was sitting right there) never notices that the image the UU Wizards drew came alive. He also didn't notice that one of them had taken the bullroarer.
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The Last Continent / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Last Continent / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The wizards can't use magic on the Librarian, because for that, they should know his real name. They don't know each other's names either:
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The Last Continent / int_da3043c5	type	Fake Ultimate Hero
The Last Continent / int_da3043c5	comment	Fake Ultimate Hero: Rincewind the Cosmic Plaything is built up into a legendary figure by his supernatural 'helper.'
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The Last Continent / int_dc0ca62a	type	Public Execution
The Last Continent / int_dc0ca62a	comment	Public Execution: Rincewind escapes a public execution. There's a lot made of the execution as entertainment, and pieces of the rope are highly prized souvenirs, although Fair Go Dibbler is somehow able to sell them before the hanging. ("It's still rope, right? Genuine rope.") We're also told of the humanitarian tradition that if the gibbet sticks three times... the prisoner will be given breakfast while someone fixes it.
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The Last Continent / int_e04ffce3	type	Lost Colony
The Last Continent / int_e04ffce3	comment	Lost Colony: XXXX is believed to be one for the former Morporkian Empire (a combination of Rome and Britannia), thus allowing an almost-modern Australia to coexist with the the nigh- Medieval Stasis of Discworld.
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The Last Continent / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
The Last Continent / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: One of the few Discworld novels that does not feature a villain. The cause of the conflict is well-intentioned stupidity on the part of the Unseen University staff, and even mysterious beings causing Rincewind so much grief are doing their best to ensure his relative safety and survival.
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The Last Continent / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Last Continent / int_e5421161	comment	Tinhead Ned is an Expy of famed Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
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The Last Continent / int_e743ffa9	type	Good Old Ways
The Last Continent / int_e743ffa9	comment	Good Old Ways: Ponder's inner monologue claims the faculty have a collective Mad Libs Catch Phrase: "You don't get proper fill-in-nouns these days—remember old "nickname" ancient-wizard-who-died-fifty-years-ago-who-Ponder-wouldn't-possibly-be-able-to-remember? Now there was a wizard who knew his fill-in-nouns." He starts quoting it himself when the randomised magic field of Xxxx's creation temporarily causes him to rapidly age up to the other wizards' age. Also, Ridcully disparages Ponder's use of a thaumometer by saying "Licking your finger and holding it up was always good enough in my day". Initially this is a surreal gag because magic measurement systems on Discworld are a parody of temperature measurement systems on Roundworld, and this would work with temperature measurement but not magic. Then it's Double Subverted when Ridcully actually does this on Xxxx and his licked finger glows with an aura of purple and octarine light that lets him judge the strength of the magic field.
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The Last Continent / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Last Continent / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The word "monkey" is the Librarian's Berserk Button. When the Senior Wrangler accidentally says it near the ill Librarian and he does nothing, the wizards become convinced that the Librarian's not long for this world. Also, the Dean being nice in the midst of the magic storm.
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The Last Continent / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Last Continent / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Well, of course there isn't a spoon tree... it's a spoon bush.
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The Last Continent / int_eb99df21	type	Funny Animal
The Last Continent / int_eb99df21	comment	Funny Animal: Many of the bar patrons in Didjabringabeeralong appear to be this trope. Rincewind never quite works up the nerve to confirm this with the bartender, as it seemed too awkward to ask a crocodile why there are sheep, kangaroos, and a wombat among his customers.
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The Last Continent / int_edac0624	type	Puzzling Platypus
The Last Continent / int_edac0624	comment	Puzzling Platypus: Terry Pratchett runs with the Australian joke (see the Comedy folder): the wizards of Unseen University end up in pre-creation Australia, just in time to witness the Creator at worknote the Aborigine Creator-God, although the Trickster God is not far away bringing forth the beasts of the field and the fowl of the air and the fish of the water. They hijack his toolkit, wanting to join in, and try to design a duck...
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The Last Continent / int_edfacbac	comment	Covert Pervert: The prim and proper Mrs. Whitlow pulls the God of Evolution aside for a brief explanation of sexual reproduction. With hand gestures.
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The Last Continent / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: The Dean keeps making these. And then explaining them.
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The Last Continent / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: After having been constantly living life on the edge ever since the end of Sourcery, Rincewind not only manages to save FourEcks, but makes it back to Ankh-Morpork and Unseen University safely.
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The Last Continent / int_f65c014c	comment	Conveniently Interrupted Document: The Librarian has caught a magical disease, and in order to cure him, the other wizards need to know his true name. Thing is, no one in Unseen University remembers what the Librarian was like before becoming an orangutan, and the Librarian himself isn't telling, as he's afraid someone will turn him back. Ridcully suggests looking the name up in the yearbook for the year the Librarian graduated, but according to the Dean, all copies suffered the same mishap. That mishap, as the Archchancellor guesses, is that a certain page being torn out, leaving only a bananary aroma in its wake.
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The Last Continent / int_f88600be	comment	Higher Understanding Through Drugs: Around the end of the book, Rincewind drinks a lot of beer so that he can think better and guess what he has to do.
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The Last Continent / int_fba50b70	comment	Perpetual Storm: The continent is surrounded by a perpetual cyclone that not only prevents people from sailing away (new arrivals are mostly shipwrecked people), but also rainfall (the natives get confused and angry when people tell obvious lies about 'water coming from the sky').
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The Last Continent / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Often happens in Rincewind's interactions with the Ecksians, partly because they're Separated by a Common Language, and partly due to cultural differences. For one example, when the horsemen warn Rincewind that bush rangers (i.e. outlaws) will find him if he gets lost in the Outback, he thinks they're like park rangers and will help him if he's lost.
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The Last Continent / int_fc81bb79	comment	Regional Speciality: Rincewind is offered a "Meat Pie Floater", a meat pie suspended in thick pea soup with tomato ketchup according to taste (no honestly, it's real! ) as an Ecksian regional delicacy. Rincewind ponders that all of the "Regional Delicacies" that he's been offered in his travels seem to be the kind of disgusting and inexplicable dishes that someone would only concoct while drunk which are then foisted upon unsuspecting tourists. It's a regional delicacy because no-one else in the world would be crazy enough to eat it.
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The Last Continent / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: A list of "non-dangerous creatures of XXXX" consists simply of a piece of paper with "some of the sheep" written on it, which implies some of the sheep on XXXX are dangerous. A few pages later, Rincewind gets pulled into a sheep-shearing contest, and runs into a large and fearsome-looking ram (luckily for him, it turns out to be Scrappy the kangaroo in disguise). While trying to explain to the faculty why the plants on Mono Island don't make any sense, Ponder gets sidetracked into talking about his uncle who runs an orchard. Later, when they're trying to explain the concept of sexual reproduction to the God of Mono, one of the wizards makes a sarcastic remark about it all being down to Ponder's uncle.
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