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The Light Fantastic

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The Light Fantastic	comment	The second Discworld novel, from 1986 and a direct sequel to The Colour of Magic. It opens with the Octavo saving Rincewind and Twoflower from their No One Could Survive That! fate in the first book by changing the entire world around them to stop them from falling off the edge of the Discworld. They are dropped in a secluded forest where they befriend a gnome named Swires.At the same time, power struggles rage at Unseen Universities when Ymper Trymon schemes to take the job of Deuteragonist Arch-Chancellor Galder Weatherwax. After summoning Death to question about the sudden changing of the world, the wizards set out on their own quest to find Rincewind.And unbeknownst to the citizens of the Disc, Great Aâ€™Tuin continues to travel straight towards an inevitable collision with a malevolent red star.Rincewind and Twoflower eventually meet and team up with Cohen the Barbarian, an elderly barbarian who was once a legendary hero known widely across the Disc, and a young woman named Bethan, whom Cohen rescues from being sacrificed by a group of druids, not that sheâ€™s grateful about it.The Light Fantastic shows itself to be a much more developed Discworld story than its predecessor: the novel abandons the episodic format of the first novel in favour of a single interconnected plot.This book is also notable for introducing several characters and concepts that would later become pillars of the Discworld series, including Unseen University (mentioned in passing in The Colour of Magic, but explored as a setting here) and the Librarian (who gets turned into an orangutan by the Octavoâ€™s Change spell), the Weatherwax family (through Galder Weatherwax, believed to be a cousin of the much more well known character Granny Weatherwax of the later novels), pixies, trolls, dwarves (and Swires, who would go on to become a member of the City Guard in later novels), Cohen the Barbarian, and Death's Domain and family (through the character of Ysabell, Deathâ€™s daughter).Preceded by The Colour of Magic, followed by Equal Rites. After a brief cameo role in Mort, Rincewind next went on to star in Sourcery.
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The Light Fantastic / int_12c6bf73	comment	Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The remaining three make their first appearance, playing Thing You Put Over A River in Death's house. Pestilence speaks in italics, at least until Thief of Time.
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The Light Fantastic / int_13419f69	type	TurnedToStone
The Light Fantastic / int_13419f69	comment	Turned to Stone: This happens to the heads of the eight orders of wizardry after they go to 'congratulate' Trymon on making contact with the Dungeon Dimensions. And, in the movie adaptation alone, this is also what happens to Trymon by... himself. Inverted, then played straight, with the trolls, who are temporarily paralyzed by daylight and revive again at dusk.
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The Light Fantastic / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
The Light Fantastic / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: Rincewind refuses to believe in talking trees, even though he's a wizard who lives on a disc carried by four elephants standing on the back of a gigantic space-turtle.
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The Light Fantastic / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
The Light Fantastic / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy Narrator: The narrator starts to describe the mooks following the female warrior Herrena, and goes ahead Breaking the Fourth Wall by saying there's no point describing them in a story like this in which they're all going to get killed anyway.
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The Light Fantastic / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
The Light Fantastic / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: The room where the Octavo is kept is highly resistant to magic. Trymon locks the other wizards in there, rendering them powerless.
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The Light Fantastic / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
The Light Fantastic / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: Bethan is actually rather upset when she's saved from being a human sacrifice. (Partly, it would seem, because she'd maintained her chastity in anticipation of being a sacrifice, and could have been dating instead.)
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The Light Fantastic / int_1c78bad3	type	Multipurpose Monocultured Crop
The Light Fantastic / int_1c78bad3	comment	Multipurpose Monocultured Crop: The Horse Nomads evidently eat very little besides horse, although one warrior is mentioned to have spiced up his mare's milk with snowcat blood.
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The Light Fantastic / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
The Light Fantastic / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Twoflower runs Thing!Trymon through this way.
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The Light Fantastic / int_1e4ad177	type	Technicolor Science
The Light Fantastic / int_1e4ad177	comment	Technicolor Science: Invoked. Galder's workroom includes a complicated arrangement of colored liquid bubbling through pipes — which is there entirely for effect.
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The Light Fantastic / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Light Fantastic / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: The very old Cohen and the much younger Bethan decide to get married.
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The Light Fantastic / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Light Fantastic / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The druids use computers... well, rocks. They compute using rocks, mixed with the sort of terms heard from tech support folk the world over.
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The Light Fantastic / int_2d30ecda	type	Strangely Specific Horoscope
The Light Fantastic / int_2d30ecda	comment	Strangely Specific Horoscope: The University's astrologer reads Rincewind's horoscope in hope of tracking down his location. It rambles a bit, but warns those born under the Small Boring Group of Faint Stars not to annoy any druids twice, which is very good advice for someone in Rincewind's circumstances that day.
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The Light Fantastic / int_2ee576b6	type	Fictional Zodiac
The Light Fantastic / int_2ee576b6	comment	Fictional Zodiac: The Discworld version of astrology is mentioned. It's much harder than on our world, because the constellations keep changing as Great A'tuin swims along. The wizards try to locate Rincewind by working out his exact horoscope; Rincewind's birth sign is "The Small Boring Group of Faint Stars", which later features in The Last Continent, set thousands of years in the past, as a much larger nebula in the sky.
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The Light Fantastic / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The Light Fantastic / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Greyhald Spold finds out that he's about to die, so in an attempt to ensure that Death can't get to him, he locks himself in a small box with all sorts of wardings to ensure it can't be opened. He neglects to drill any airholes in the box.
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The Light Fantastic / int_366f3185	type	Book Burning
The Light Fantastic / int_366f3185	comment	Book Burning: The star people, a cult that blames magic for the star, starts to burn books of magic.
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The Light Fantastic / int_38047858	type	Squishy Wizard
The Light Fantastic / int_38047858	comment	Squishy Wizard: How Rincewind is able to beat Trymon in the end. While Rincewind is a wizard at heart, he's more physically fit than the average wizard (and a dirty fighter).
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The Light Fantastic / int_3ae5f176	type	Flyaway Shot
The Light Fantastic / int_3ae5f176	comment	Flyaway Shot: A rare - perhaps one of the first - instance of this kind of ending in prose.
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The Light Fantastic / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Light Fantastic / int_3b113b7	comment	It's acknowleged as Character Development when Twoflower gives Rincewind gold to deliver to Cohen and Bethan.
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The Light Fantastic / int_3fdac1c6	type	Literally Shattered Lives
The Light Fantastic / int_3fdac1c6	comment	Literally Shattered Lives: Unfortunately for one of the petrified wizards, his stone form was accidentally dropped all the way down to the cobbles at street level when they were moving him.
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The Light Fantastic / int_41899e45	type	Monster-Shaped Mountain
The Light Fantastic / int_41899e45	comment	Monster-Shaped Mountain: Some mountains in Discworld are revealed to be very old trolls who simply sat down to think and never got up again. Old Grandad is one such troll, and Herrena's band make the mistake of setting up camp inside his Cave Mouth.
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The Light Fantastic / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
The Light Fantastic / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Galder Weatherwax is unceremoniously devoured by the Luggage about a quarter of the way through the book. It's a Blink-and-You-Miss-It moment, he's there one second and the next, the Luggage is there instead.
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The Light Fantastic / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
The Light Fantastic / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: Played With. It is mentioned a few times that past Patrician Olaf Quimby II passed measures that required authors to be literal, so Pratchett must either further explain his metaphors or take them back. As the ultimate example, he describes light, which moves slowly on the Disc due to magical fields, as "pour[ing] like molten gold," but then has to clarify. He later replaces it as "like golden syrup" instead.
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The Light Fantastic / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Light Fantastic / int_4781adbb	comment	Rincewind jumped straight into Jerk with a Heart of Gold territory in this book. He's much more sympathetic in both senses of the word, so much that all the greed from the previous book is very much gone. It's acknowleged as Character Development when Twoflower gives Rincewind gold to deliver to Cohen and Bethan.
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The Light Fantastic / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Light Fantastic / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: One way that Rincewind manages to stay alive and avert being a Squishy Wizard, by fighting dirty.
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The Light Fantastic / int_4a879f41	type	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
The Light Fantastic / int_4a879f41	comment	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Twoflower teaching the Horsemen of the Apocalypse Bridge.
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The Light Fantastic / int_4abd0b32	type	I'll Take Two Beers Too
The Light Fantastic / int_4abd0b32	comment	I'll Take Two Beers Too:
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The Light Fantastic / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
The Light Fantastic / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Rocks are flown through the air via the power of persuasion (which druids believe is one of the binding forces of the Disc). It only works so long as the rock thinks it can work, so people are advised to never say things like "but that's impossible!" around it, lest the rocks start to agree.
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The Light Fantastic / int_4e1edd37	type	Wizard Workshop
The Light Fantastic / int_4e1edd37	comment	Wizard Workshop: A wizard's workshop is described as looking like the chaotic meeting of a taxidermy warehouse, a foundry, and a glassblower's shop.
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The Light Fantastic / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Light Fantastic / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Death and his nature still have some fleshing out ahead, with Ysabell mentioning people coming there to rescue their loved ones all the time. Later instalments establish that the dead don't go to Death's home, but to somewhere else entirely.
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The Light Fantastic / int_5281d5b1	type	Our Dwarves Are All the Same
The Light Fantastic / int_5281d5b1	comment	Our Dwarves Are All the Same: The first appearance of Discworld dwarfs; industrious and quiet, but very handy with an axe if you cross them.
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The Light Fantastic / int_56264acd	type	The So-Called Coward
The Light Fantastic / int_56264acd	comment	The So-Called Coward: Not for the last time, Rincewind saves the world by accident.
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The Light Fantastic / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
The Light Fantastic / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: Several of the Disc's mountain ranges are actually trolls who've gone philosophical. It's noted there might be some bother if they ever woke up.
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The Light Fantastic / int_59938d30	type	Better than Sex
The Light Fantastic / int_59938d30	comment	Better than Sex: When Rincewind accidentally casts some real magic, he suddenly discovers why wizards don't care that much about being celibate.
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The Light Fantastic / int_59d599ec	type	Unexpectedly Real Magic
The Light Fantastic / int_59d599ec	comment	Unexpectedly Real Magic: The hitherto incompetent wizard Rincewind, pursued by a mob intent on wreaking revenge on all things wizardly, throws his usual desperate bluff to gain time. Rincewind's tactic in a fight is to strike the pose of a wizard about to cast a lethal spell, knowing Genre Savvy pursuers will realize exactly what it means when a Wizard strikes a pose with arms extended and fingers poised to deliver death. It usually buys Rincewind enough time to run and get away, or else to do the unexpected and deliver a more mundane punch or kick. But to his surprise, for the very first time the magic ignites, his fingers crackle with octarine fire, and people get killed. He just wasn't expecting this.
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The Light Fantastic / int_5dd880f5	type	Cave Mouth
The Light Fantastic / int_5dd880f5	comment	Cave Mouth: Twoflower's kidnappers inadvertently settle in the mouth of an enormous troll, mistaking it for a cave. They probably would have been fine if they hadn't lit a fire inside it, ironically to ward off trolls.
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The Light Fantastic / int_5fc117f5	type	Fantastic Measurement System
The Light Fantastic / int_5fc117f5	comment	Fantastic Measurement System: This is the first book where thaums are mentioned (Rincewind talking about the gingerbread cottage) as a unit of magic, rather than Primes as in the previous book. This would be explained by the Discworld Companion as being two competing units of measurement, like Fahrenheit and Celsius.
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The Light Fantastic / int_6079fd88	type	In the Local Tongue
The Light Fantastic / int_6079fd88	comment	In the Local Tongue: Discussed. For example, Mount Oolskunrahod ("Who is this fool who doesn't know what a mountain is?") in the Forest of Skund ("Your finger, you fool," after an explorer pointed and asked a native "What's this?").
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The Light Fantastic / int_67a7cd88	type	Battle in the Center of the Mind
The Light Fantastic / int_67a7cd88	comment	Battle in the Center of the Mind: Eventually, Rincewind hauls the Eighth Spell out of hiding within his psyche, despite its attempts to conceal itself among dusty old memories and anxieties.
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The Light Fantastic / int_6b409e2e	type	Druidic Sickle
The Light Fantastic / int_6b409e2e	comment	Druidic Sickle: When Rincewind and Twoflower encounter a druidic ceremony, many or all of the druids appear to be carrying sickles, and some of them try to employ them as weapons against Cohen, with unfortunate consequences for them.
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The Light Fantastic / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
The Light Fantastic / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: Galder Weatherwax magically lifts himself to the top of the Tower of Art by using stone falling from it as a counterweight.
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The Light Fantastic / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
The Light Fantastic / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Twoflower, sort of. After being poisoned by a druid, he's sent to Death's house with his lifeline still attached and Rincewind has to get him back.
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The Light Fantastic / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
The Light Fantastic / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: Rincewind hears what the Agatean idea of priests are: Harmless old folk who go around begging for money, and don't sacrifice anyone to anything. He thinks the idea is weird.
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The Light Fantastic / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Light Fantastic / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: When one of the wizards realizes Death is coming for him, he locks himself inside a specially prepared box woven with spells and materials designed to bar Death from entering. Only when he's locked inside does he find out that Death simply slipped inside ahead of him.
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The Light Fantastic / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
The Light Fantastic / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: One Luggage, one nervous henchman who's already seen it eat someone. One wizzard who knows what's happening and is enjoying it a lot. The Luggage spends several miles tormenting Herenna's last henchman by running ahead of them and just sitting there.
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The Light Fantastic / int_77552932	type	Character Shilling
The Light Fantastic / int_77552932	comment	Character Shilling: Twoflower still loves going on about how great a wizard Rincewind is. Rincewind can't even spell the word correctly.
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The Light Fantastic / int_7ca17040	type	Cosmic Egg
The Light Fantastic / int_7ca17040	comment	Cosmic Egg: One of the many origins of the Discworld universe given by the Great Spells
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The Light Fantastic / int_7fe66618	type	You Can See That, Right?
The Light Fantastic / int_7fe66618	comment	You Can See That, Right?:
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The Light Fantastic / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Light Fantastic / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Lackjaw the dwarf jeweler, last seen climbing aboard the Luggage with Cohen, is absent without explanation when the latter two arrive at the Tower of Art.
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The Light Fantastic / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Light Fantastic / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Things from the Dungeon Dimensions, being quite ready to gobble the Disc up.
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The Light Fantastic / int_8984e5d1	type	Commonality Connection
The Light Fantastic / int_8984e5d1	comment	Commonality Connection: Trymon and Rincewind are completely different people, but they both think the magic rules The Disc rely on are incredibly silly. At the climax the former tries to tempt the latter by offering a future with a more sensible set of physical laws but Rincewind recognizes Trymon is just ranting by this point.
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The Light Fantastic / int_8b819362	type	Least Is First
The Light Fantastic / int_8b819362	comment	Least Is First: It's Twoflower who sets out to save the day at the end, with only a sword he can't really use, while wizards dither.
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The Light Fantastic / int_8d25533e	type	Your Size May Vary
The Light Fantastic / int_8d25533e	comment	Your Size May Vary: A rare literary example. When Old Grandad wakes up, his fingers are the size of ships... and a few paragraphs later, his hand is the size of a house.
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The Light Fantastic / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
The Light Fantastic / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: Well, not exactly demonic as such- demons would be sweet and fluffy by comparison. Rincewind himself is a variant, as one of the Eight Great Spells is hiding out in his mind.
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The Light Fantastic / int_90d5b651	type	Our Fairies Are Different
The Light Fantastic / int_90d5b651	comment	Our Fairies Are Different: Twoflower is initially excited at the thought of fairies being around. Swires informs him, to no avail, that they don't have that kind of fairy. They have the other kind of fairy.
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The Light Fantastic / int_96804de5	type	Born in the Saddle
The Light Fantastic / int_96804de5	comment	Born in the Saddle: Lampshaded;
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The Light Fantastic / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Light Fantastic / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Ymper Trymon, the first major antagonist of the series.
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The Light Fantastic / int_97ddee3e	type	My Skull Runneth Over
The Light Fantastic / int_97ddee3e	comment	My Skull Runneth Over: Wort says that a single wizard trying to cast the spells of the Octavo will get this reaction, not just dying, but tearing a hole in the fabric of the Universe.
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The Light Fantastic / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
The Light Fantastic / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: Rincewind actually manages to cast a spell at the climax. He nearly passes out from the sheer strain, but he casts a spell.
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The Light Fantastic / int_98da00fb	type	Caught in the Ripple
The Light Fantastic / int_98da00fb	comment	Caught in the Ripple: A Change Spell affects the entire world, beginning in Unseen University and rippling outwards to encompass the entire world. The wizards, who are trained to recognise and act on this sort of thing, realise what's happening and speed to a high vantage point to watch the ripple in reality spread out first over the city and then onwards. note This is done to save the life of the Wizzard Rincewind - mis-spelling deliberate - who in this time and place is the most important person in the world, for reasons that become clear later.
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The Light Fantastic / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Light Fantastic / int_9bfbf9f3	comment	Chainmail Bikini: Averted and parodied, Herrena the barbarian heroine is introduced with a long aside mentioning "Now, there is a tendency at a point like this to look over oneâ€™s shoulder at the cover artist and start going on at length about leather, tightboots and naked blades. Words like â€˜fullâ€™, â€˜roundâ€™ and even â€˜pertâ€™ creep into the narrative, until the writer has to go and have a cold shower and a lie down." But that would be impractical and she's dressed quite sensibly for the job. "All right - maybe the boots are leather. But not black!"
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The Light Fantastic / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Light Fantastic / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Druids do not take to people going on about that modernisation nonsense very well. Young druids who start getting uppity tend to find themselves on the bonfire pretty quick.
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The Light Fantastic / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Light Fantastic / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At one point close to the end of the book, the Octavo uses Rincewind to say "The star is life, not death." At the end of the book, it's revealed that the red star is producing baby Discworlds. This also explains why Great A'Tuin was so eager to reach the star. More subtly, although he's aware of what will happen if things go wrong, Death is puzzled by the red star's wider significance, indicating that it's a harbinger of birth rather than of anything in his purview.
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The Light Fantastic / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
The Light Fantastic / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Ymper Trymon to Galder Weatherwax.
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The Light Fantastic / int_a61fc28e	type	Desperate Plea for Home
The Light Fantastic / int_a61fc28e	comment	Desperate Plea for Home: When Rincewind recovers from his vision of the Great Spells telling him he has to save the Disc, he tells Twoflower "I want the feel of honest cobbles under my feet, I want the old familiar smell of cesspits, I want to go where there's lots of people and fires and roofs and walls and friendly things like that! I want to go home!" Much to his surprise, Twoflower agrees.
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The Light Fantastic / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
The Light Fantastic / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: After introducing Herrena, the narrator mentions she has a couple of mercenaries with her who will probably die soon, so there is no reason to introduce them. Although most of them last about as long as Herrena does. They don't die, however, but are written out of the story when Rincewind and Twoflower escape, and Herrena is later mentioned in passing as being in Ankh-Morpork in Eric.
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The Light Fantastic / int_b2e7f372	type	The Anticipator
The Light Fantastic / int_b2e7f372	comment	The Anticipator: Galder manages this by being Crazy-Prepared: That meant he was just to the right of the door. However, his Anticipator status kicks in when he automatically recognizes who it is.
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The Light Fantastic / int_b52416b5	type	Watch the World Die
The Light Fantastic / int_b52416b5	comment	Watch the World Die: One of the evacuees claims that's why he's heading for the mountains: the Red Star will kill everyone there too, but at least the view will be better when it happens.
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The Light Fantastic / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
The Light Fantastic / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: It's unrevealed what Chancellor Weatherwax planned to do with silver tweezers, cat blood, a whip and a small chair. Or what would've happened to the volunteer, had any been available as an alternative.
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The Light Fantastic / int_bb0f336e	type	Mad Mathematician
The Light Fantastic / int_bb0f336e	comment	Mad Mathematician: Ymper Trymon believes language should be replaced with an easily understood numerical system. This is the least disturbing thing about him.
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The Light Fantastic / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
The Light Fantastic / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: The prophecy written on the wall of the pyramid of Tsort states that the one who says all eight of the spells of the Octavo will get his greatest wish fulfilled. Naturally Trymon thinks it means that great power will be given to anyone who fills that role (himself for example) but it is simply and accurately describing that once Rincewind says all eight spells then the one that has been riding around in his head will no longer be there, getting rid of it is his greatest wish. "The star is life, not death."
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The Light Fantastic / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The Light Fantastic / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: "Herrena the Henna-Haired Harridan".
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The Light Fantastic / int_c2619557	type	Girl with Psycho Weapon
The Light Fantastic / int_c2619557	comment	Girl with Psycho Weapon: Ysabell with her father's scythe. The fact that it's Death's scythe is really parenthetical to Ysabell herself...
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The Light Fantastic / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
The Light Fantastic / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: At the end of the book, Rincewind declares his attention to re-attend the Unseen University, figuring that without the Eighth Spell in his mind, he might be able to learn magic for real. Later books show he doesn't, and remains a hopeless failure of a wizard. However, he eventually becomes a professor.
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The Light Fantastic / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
The Light Fantastic / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Rincewind starts talking to a tree (which talks back). He then reasons that only mad people talk to trees, and since he isn't mad, he can't be talking to a tree. Later on, when the tree starts trying to correct him on some matters, Rincewind glowers at it.
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The Light Fantastic / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Light Fantastic / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Mostly to the film Conan the Barbarian (1982), from which direct quotes are satirized and some plot elements, lifted wholesale. Early on, Rincewind and Twoflower find a nice gingerbread house once owned by a witch, until two punk kids killed her. The manner in which the Librarian makes his first appearance is a reference to classic BBC radio comedy show Round the Horne, which would often reference invented, surrealistic, public holidays such as, for instance Immerse An Orangutan In Pineapple Jelly Week. BBC radio comedy was one of many influences on Pratchett's writing. Death being at a masquerade party where it will go downhill when everyone realizes he's not wearing a mask is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death.
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The Light Fantastic / int_c86392ee	type	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
The Light Fantastic / int_c86392ee	comment	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: Twoflower reveals that he bought the Luggage from such a shop. A shop the group stumbles into while on the run from some cultists. It turns out the owner pissed off a sorcerer who cursed his shop to wander around and in and out of existence, never able to stay in the same place for long. It becomes a very convenient way for the group to get back to Ankh-Morpork in a hurry, as the shop is able to just materialize on an empty wall there.
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The Light Fantastic / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
The Light Fantastic / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: What Rincewind does in the climax... as well as elbow him in the ribs, bite him, Groin Attack him...
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The Light Fantastic / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Light Fantastic / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: All over the place after Trymon steals the Octavo. And again when Rincewind gets a good, long look at the Things. The ones Pterry does describe look like a hideous mix of an octopus and a bicycle, and apparently there are much worse behind them.
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The Light Fantastic / int_ce764dfa	type	Apothecary Alligator
The Light Fantastic / int_ce764dfa	comment	Apothecary Alligator:
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The Light Fantastic / int_d366883d	type	Mortality Phobia
The Light Fantastic / int_d366883d	comment	Mortality Phobia: Greyhald Spold, the world's oldest wizard, begins worrying about the encroachment of death, and devises an elaborate hiding place, magically and physically impermeable, in the hope of keeping the Grim Reaper at bay. Unfortunately, he neglected to take into account the problem of obtaining fresh air in an impermeable chamber...
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The Light Fantastic / int_d567ce13	type	Who Will Bell the Cat?
The Light Fantastic / int_d567ce13	comment	Who Will Bell the Cat?: One member of the Star People cult tries to intimidate Cohen by saying that, if he is killed, more will take his place. Cohen replies that it doesn't matter since he will be dead anyways. The cultist wisely backs off.
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The Light Fantastic / int_d5b3df2d	type	Dark Action Girl
The Light Fantastic / int_d5b3df2d	comment	Dark Action Girl: Herenna, who would be a straight up Action Girl if not for Trymon hiring her.
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The Light Fantastic / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
The Light Fantastic / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: What is believed will happen as the magic fails.
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The Light Fantastic / int_d91d0365	type	The Magic Goes Away
The Light Fantastic / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: Starts to happen as the Star's solar wind begins to strip the Discworld's magical field away.
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The Light Fantastic / int_d9563969	type	Failed Attempt at Drama
The Light Fantastic / int_d9563969	comment	Failed Attempt at Drama: Galder tries putting some drama into summoning Death, but even aside from his just coming from a party, Death asks him to knock it off with the dramatic speeches and proclamations, putting Galder out, since he rather likes being a ham.
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The Light Fantastic / int_daba19f1	type	Portal Cut
The Light Fantastic / int_daba19f1	comment	Portal Cut: Implied to have befallen one of the pursuing UU wizards, who activated his Seven League Boots without the proper safety precautions.
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The Light Fantastic / int_de5f028b	type	Barbarian Hero
The Light Fantastic / int_de5f028b	comment	Barbarian Hero: Deconstructed/parodied with Cohen the Barbarian, an octogenarian hero who's still at it because he's had a lot of experience at not dying.
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The Light Fantastic / int_df33a778	type	For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself
The Light Fantastic / int_df33a778	comment	For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Death was summoned from the middle of a party, presumably because someone is going to die at it. He tells the wizards that it will all go downhill at midnight because "that's when they think I'll be taking my mask off."
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The Light Fantastic / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
The Light Fantastic / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Galder Weatherwax is the main protagonist for the Unseen University storyline for the first quarter of the book, until he is suddenly devoured by the Luggage.
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The Light Fantastic / int_e2f7ab99	type	Assassin Outclassin'
The Light Fantastic / int_e2f7ab99	comment	Assassin Outclassin': Trymon tries killing Galder via means of knife to the head. Galder effortlessly defends himself, since wizards don't get to be old by being easy to kill.
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The Light Fantastic / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
The Light Fantastic / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: The Star People, who also engage in book-burning sessions - as the books in question include Tomes of Eldtrich Lore like the Necrotelicomnicon, this would be rather dangerous if the star wasn't reducing the strength of magic on the Disc.
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The Light Fantastic / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Light Fantastic / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Rincewind Lampshades this quality of the Luggage to intimidate the hell out of Weems.
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The Light Fantastic / int_ec31ec73	type	Tom Swifty
The Light Fantastic / int_ec31ec73	comment	Tom Swifty: Death has just been summoned by the Rite of AshkEnte. He adds, a shade reproachfully, that "[he] was at a party".
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The Light Fantastic / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
The Light Fantastic / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: A grumpy Death shoots down Galder Weatherwax's attempts to instill drama into his summoning, since he'd been dragged away from a party. Mind, he'd already killed the mood just by showing up - summoning Death is slightly less impressive when he shows up holding a nibble.
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The Light Fantastic / int_efbfe117	type	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
The Light Fantastic / int_efbfe117	comment	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Bethan says that instead of drinking mead with the moon goddess, she's got eight years of staying at home on Saturday evenings down the drain.
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The Light Fantastic / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
The Light Fantastic / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: At the end of the book, Twoflower decides once and for all to return home.
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The Light Fantastic / int_f7406be3	type	Mushroom House
The Light Fantastic / int_f7406be3	comment	Mushroom House: While traveling through the Forest of Skund, the protagonists meet Swires, a gnome living inside a mushroom with a red cap with white spots. The mushroom itself is described as belonging to a kind that a shaman they met previously, who habitually consumed hallucinogenic fungi to trigger religious experiences, would only eat "after tying himself to a rock".
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The Light Fantastic / int_fb3ac5b7	type	Astrologer
The Light Fantastic / int_fb3ac5b7	comment	Astrologer: Trymon orders an astrologer to make Rincewind's horoscope in order to find him. Unlike most examples the advice is pretty helpful and specific: "Beware of druids [...] We really mean it about the druids."
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The Light Fantastic / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
The Light Fantastic / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: An Eldritch Abomination-possessed Trymon near the end. Subverted in that he's still a pretty frail and a lousy fighter even after transforming, given that Rincewind is able to punch him out anyways. Not quite a Clipped-Wing Angel though, since the sprouting claws and tentacles do give him a boost (he was very much a Squishy Wizard before transformation).
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The Light Fantastic / int_fca239bc	type	Society-on-Edge Episode
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