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Thief of Time

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Thief of Time	comment	The 26th Discworld novel. The fifth in the Death/Susan theme, although they are not the main protagonists of the story.The Auditors of Reality are at it again. This time, they plot to stop time and therefore all the messiness of life, freezing it perfectly. To do so, they approach a driven, unstable watchmaker called Jeremy Clockson - so called because he was a foundling of the Clockmaker's Guild - to build, or rather rebuild, the Glass Clock of Bad SchÃ¼schein. This Clock, built by a Mad Scientist, previously stopped time briefly before breaking and then shattered history, causing the History Monks to have to put it back together imperfectly (and incidentally explaining all the Discworld series' continuity errors). Its existence survives only in a fairytale and the memory of an Igor, the grandson of the one who helped build the Clock. In order to interact with Jeremy, an Auditor makes a human body and inhabits it under the alias Lady Myria Lejean, but in the process finds herself losing her former nature and becoming addicted to life.Meanwhile, another foundling called Lobsang Ludd has been taken away by the History Monks and is taught their disciplines, such as the management and upkeep of history and the running of time, and being monks in the mountains, self-defence disiplines including the time-bending martial art of deja-fu. A difficult but know-it-all student, he is apprenticed to Lu-Tze (from Small Gods), spoken of with fear yet claiming to be only a simple sweeper, and thus outside the system. Via their Mandala, the monks learn of the attempt to reconstruct the Glass Clock, and know that this time there's no hope of repairing history if it strikes. Merely a birth pang of the coming doom causes the room of Procrastinators (time manipulating machines) to go haywire, yet Lobsang somehow instinctively calms them. Lu-Tze, who failed to stop the first clock, is put on the case by the Abbot, a serial reincarnator currently in the body of a baby. He and Lobsang journey down towards Ankh-Morpork...And meanwhile, Death has a job of his own: mustering the other three Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and recruiting his granddaughter Susan to intervene so the Apocalypse won't happen at all.Preceded by The Truth, followed by Night Watch. The inciting incident of Night Watch is directly caused by the climax of Thief of Time, so these books are closely connected, despite being part of different "series." This is the final novel to feature cover art by Josh Kirby, who would pass away before Night Watch was published. Paul Kidby would take on the role of cover artist for the rest of the series.Preceded in the Death/Susan subseries by Hogfather.Not related to the potential Class/Aspect pair.
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Thief of Time / int_1245fea7	type	Divided Deity
Thief of Time / int_1245fea7	comment	Divided Deity: Time's two sons were originally one entity, but a particularly painful contraction and a small mistake by their mother split them in two. Recombining allows them to assume their mother's mantle when she retires (as well as help save the world).
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Thief of Time / int_12c6bf73	type	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Thief of Time / int_12c6bf73	comment	Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Five. Horsemen show up as major characters, with the concomitant characterization and expansion.
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Thief of Time / int_134ca130	type	Super-Reflexes
Thief of Time / int_134ca130	comment	Super-Reflexes: The History Monks use "slicing time" to give themselves enhanced perception and response. Lobsang was taken by the monks because he could do this despite being untrained in their arts.
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Thief of Time / int_15385326	type	You Can't Thwart Stage One
Thief of Time / int_15385326	comment	You Can't Thwart Stage One: Lobsang has to try and outrun a lightning bolt about to hit the glass clock, which would stop the flow of time. He fails, time stops and the Auditors' plan succeeds. The heroes must now work to set things right again.
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Thief of Time / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
Thief of Time / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing: Even though Myria turns against the other Auditors and showcases becoming an individual in her own right, and despite renaming her, Susan continuously refuses to see her as anything other than a creature.
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Thief of Time / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Thief of Time / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Even after it appears Lu-Tze is Mistaken for Badass, Lobsang never forgets Rule #1.
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Thief of Time / int_1796e460	type	Death Means Humanity
Thief of Time / int_1796e460	comment	Death Means Humanity: Spending time in a human body makes Lejean/Unity start seeing human life as less of a blight on the perfection of the universe, which is at complete odds with the Individuality Is Illegal, Enemy to All Living Things mindset the Auditors have as Gods of Order, and she eventually helps to stop the invasion on humanity from The Auditors. Unfortunately, this drives her mad and she kills herself using a vat of chocolate. When she finds herself in the afterlife, apparently having earned herself a soul for her Heelâ€“Face Turn, she is shocked.
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Thief of Time / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Thief of Time / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: The embodied Auditors shouldn't have felt the need to breathe, if they were using their powers to exchange gases between their new bodies and the surrounding air: it's the buildup of carbon dioxide in body fluids that makes the brain's respiratory centers trigger each breath.
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Thief of Time / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Thief of Time / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "So easily does a thief of time repay his debts!"
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Thief of Time / int_1a237409	type	Order Versus Chaos
Thief of Time / int_1a237409	comment	Order Versus Chaos: Comes down on the side of chaos, because life and emotion and free will are disorderly: that's why the auditors want to destroy it.
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Thief of Time / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Thief of Time / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Time Herself never appears or deliberately interferes with the plot.
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Thief of Time / int_1ce428b5	type	Cold Equation
Thief of Time / int_1ce428b5	comment	Cold Equation: Susan is of the opinion that it's best to use cold logic in the face of the end of the world, even to the point of letting certain people die in order to save everyone else.
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Thief of Time / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Thief of Time / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: One that doubles as a Brick Joke, with the brick's flight spanning nearly the entirety of the book. The pronunciation similarities are too close to ignore.
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Thief of Time / int_2169c95c	type	Taxidermy Is Creepy
Thief of Time / int_2169c95c	comment	Taxidermy Is Creepy: While avoiding the Auditors in the Royal Art Museum, Susan and Lobsang pass through a gallery full of stuffed animals dressed in clothes and arranged in allegedly-amusing tableaux, such as frogs seated at a tiny dining table, or an outlaw fox being chased by hounds in hunting jackets. Susan and Lobsang seem to find it equal parts disturbing and tacky, and Susan notes that her cat-loving grandfather probably had cross words with whoever made the one with the dancing kittens.
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Thief of Time / int_21a1776a	type	Great Way to Go
Thief of Time / int_21a1776a	comment	Great Way to Go: Unity's Death by Chocolate. Even Death himself and Kaos are impressed.
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Thief of Time / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Thief of Time / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The obvious one is the pair of procrastinators procured by Qu, in a scene reminiscent to a James Bond film. Lu-Tze says that they're untested and to be used only as a last resort, so it's certain they'll be essential at some point. The Yeti's Save Scumming ability is demonstrated as a curiosity, and Lu-Tze mentions that he knows how to do it in theory but would have to be very desperate to try it for real, given the stakes.
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Thief of Time / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Thief of Time / int_25b5600	comment	The inventive monk Qu is an obvious Captain Ersatz of Q from James Bond.
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Thief of Time / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
Thief of Time / int_26b2747	comment	Alliterative Title: The X of Y style where X and Y both start with the same letter.
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Thief of Time / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Thief of Time / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Myria LeJean/Unity in the museum after time stops; she uses a family of squatters as furniture, even offering Susan and Lobsang to "pull up a child and have a seat."
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Thief of Time / int_27fdd6a1	type	Divine Parentage
Thief of Time / int_27fdd6a1	comment	Divine Parentage: Lobsang and Jeremy are the son of Time. In fact they are the same person, but her powers made two of them. Best not to think about that.
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Thief of Time / int_280a5103	type	Rogue Drone
Thief of Time / int_280a5103	comment	Rogue Drone: Lady Myria LeJean. Once she picks up a physical body, a name, and a gender, she starts seeing life as less of a blight on the perfection of the universe. And had the other Auditors spent the same amount of time, they would likely have done the same.
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Thief of Time / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Thief of Time / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Because no one knows what happens after death if the Glass Clock kills you. Or even if it does "just" kill you - the only two... entities who got close enough for it to be lethal weren't quite mortal to begin with.
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Thief of Time / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Thief of Time / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Lu-Tze by far prefers playing mind games with his foes to get them to act in his favor without having to resort to physical confrontations.
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Thief of Time / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Thief of Time / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: When Death brings up the Auditors, Susan remarks she hates them. Death simply states he, of course, has no emotions.
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Thief of Time / int_2bc0fc4d	type	Ice-Cream Koan
Thief of Time / int_2bc0fc4d	comment	Ice-Cream Koan: Spoofed in this anecdote: Lu-Tze's way, the Way of Mrs. Cosmopolite, is entirely composed of mundane, common-sense sayings such as "There is no time like the present." Perhaps they gained some profundity through coming from what for the History Monks is the exotic faraway land of Ankh-Morpork.
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Thief of Time / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Thief of Time / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: The Fifth Horseman shows Lu-Tze the deleted passage in the Book of Om referring to him: "And the Angel clothÃ©d all in white opened the Iron Book, and a fifth rider appeared in a chariot of burning ice, and there was a snapping of laws and a breaking of bonds and the multitudes cried 'Oh God, we're in trouble now!'"
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Thief of Time / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Thief of Time / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Mr White. Literally.
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Thief of Time / int_2e7d6711	type	Enemy to All Living Things
Thief of Time / int_2e7d6711	comment	Enemy to All Living Things: The Auditors are this, par for the course really. Interestingly this book goes into detail of how their presence causes an increase in malignity - ordinary objects becoming more hostile to non-objects. Buttered bread become tripping hazards, ropes and hoses tie themselves into knots, wouldn't be surprised if rakes get under foot too.
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Thief of Time / int_2ec219ee	type	Butterfly of Doom
Thief of Time / int_2ec219ee	comment	Kaos' helmet has eye-slits that look like butterflies' wings, in a reference to the Butterfly Effect in chaos theory (which was also mentioned in Interesting Times) and/or the shape of the Lorenz attractor◊.
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Thief of Time / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Thief of Time / int_31083edb	comment	Logic Bomb: Used by Lejean/Unity against the orderly-minded Auditors, such as signs that point right but say "Keep Left" and signs that read "Ignore This Sign — By Order", and "Do Not Feed the Elephant" when there is no elephant. Not to mention going metaphysical when she puts up a sign that says "Duck" when there's no reason to duck. And no waterfowl in sight either. The Auditors finally find a way around it by creating the new category of orders that are "bloody stupid" and thus don't have to be followed, after taking heavy losses.
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Thief of Time / int_314c56b9	type	Time Stands Still
Thief of Time / int_314c56b9	comment	Time Stands Still: Deconstructed with slicing — a small pocket of space around the slicer is still subject to the ordinary passage of time, so it is necessary to move around so that the air around you doesn't get used up and cause you to suffocate. Also, touching a fast-moving object like a crossbow bolt is a really bad idea. Further deconstructed when it's mentioned that this is what happens when you do it right. If you screw up slicing, your sorry-ass feet get sliced to ribbons on the grass. And then you suffocate. And then there's what happens if you master the basics and try to go for the high-level stuff. Going for the sweet spot at high slicing levels (where there's a valley in the energy required) and missing is not recommended. The guy who discovered the first valley theorised there existed another, even closer to the point at which no human would survive. It's still only a theory because, attempting to discover it, he exploded.
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Thief of Time / int_3213b5ee	type	Father Time
Thief of Time / int_3213b5ee	comment	Father Time: Shows up of course, given the title. Only at the end, though, when Lobsang ascends to the position. Beforehand, it's his mother. A striking woman with long dark hair and a red dress, she's quite happy to see her son as before she was stuck wandering her glass castle, weeping for the child she could see but never touch.
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Thief of Time / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Thief of Time / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Jeremy Clockson, though he's described as being too sane rather than not sane enough. Only by himself. Igor considers it to be just another type of crazy.
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Thief of Time / int_35bec269	type	Implausible Synchrony
Thief of Time / int_35bec269	comment	Implausible Synchrony: Clockmaker's Guild member Jeremy Clockson is able to keep every single clock in his shop synchronized almost perfectly, even ones that rely on animals or plants to operate. He's so obsessed with keeping perfect time that he beat another guild member (possibly to death) for deliberately keeping his pocket watch a few minutes fast. As it eventually turns out, his ability is due to his being one of the two sons (yes, that is written correctly) of Time herself. The rest of the city of Ankh-Morpork averts this; the bells that ring every hour are never in sync. It takes a while for all of the bells to settle down.
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Thief of Time / int_35f6ee37	type	Split at Birth
Thief of Time / int_35f6ee37	comment	Split at Birth: Lobsang and Jeremy. In a very literal way.
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Thief of Time / int_36842094	type	Emergency Temporal Shift
Thief of Time / int_36842094	comment	Emergency Temporal Shift: The yeti have technically been extinct three times, because they have the ability to basically "save" their lives and reload them if something goes wrong, basically retconning the universe into whatever killed them not happening - as one of them demonstrates by getting decapitated by Lu-Tze and suddenly being back in one piece.
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Thief of Time / int_37faae83	type	Noble Shoplifter
Thief of Time / int_37faae83	comment	Noble Shoplifter: On their trip to Ankh-Morpork, Lu-Tze and Lobsang take supplies from people's houses, and leave behind IOUs that will be settled by the next History Monk to pass through who isn't in such a hurry.
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Thief of Time / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Thief of Time / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Much like Vetinari and Vimes, Death's plan is get Susan riled up and point her in the direction of the Auditors. Susan knows he's doing this, and yet it works anyway.
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Thief of Time / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
Thief of Time / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: Lejean decides to stop the other Auditors' plan after experiencing the sensations and thoughts that come with being alive. Though under the circumstances it's more of a defector into decadence.
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Thief of Time / int_3aa2ac42	type	G-Rated Drug
Thief of Time / int_3aa2ac42	comment	G-Rated Drug: The Auditors eventually become somewhat addicted to life; narrowing their senses down to five is easy-peasy, but they are unprepared for the sheer intensity of them. It literally drives them insane.
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Thief of Time / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Thief of Time / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Whatever Jeremy did to that guy who kept his watch fast. He has medicine now. It's mentioned in passing that Susan has met the Tooth Fairy, the Soul Cake Duck, and Old Man Trouble. The Tooth Fairy encounter took place in Hogfather, and Old Man Trouble patronizes Biers like Susan does, but the Soul Cake Duck never appears in any Discworld novel.
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Thief of Time / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Thief of Time / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: A key part of the backstory — when the monks repaired history, they did a somewhat patchwork job. In fact, this book manages to Hand Wave every single instance of Schizo Tech in the entire Discworld series by outright stating that all of the inconsistencies were created when the time stream was essentially pieced back together by little men in robes wielding glue-sticks.
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Thief of Time / int_3c7ccb69	type	No Body Left Behind
Thief of Time / int_3c7ccb69	comment	No Body Left Behind: When the Auditors "die" in their artificially made human bodies, the bodies sometimes simply break down at the atomic level, seeming to turn to dust.
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Thief of Time / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Thief of Time / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Mr. White keeps the other human Auditors in line through threats of murder. Mrs. Tangerine goes a little further than "threats".
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Thief of Time / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Thief of Time / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Even after becoming Time incarnate, Lobsang doesn't stand a chance against Lu-Tze.
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Thief of Time / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Thief of Time / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: For LeJean/Unity, since she decides to kill herself rather than live as an insane auditor trying to be human once she stops the invasion. Death considers it a waste of her potential, but we do see that unlike the other auditors she has earned a soul.
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Thief of Time / int_43ae1aba	type	World's Most Beautiful Woman
Thief of Time / int_43ae1aba	comment	World's Most Beautiful Woman: Assuming she qualified as a woman at all, Myria LeJean/Unity. Though they don't really get human standards of beauty, the Auditors copied her features from what was considered the most beautiful painting of a woman in the world ('Woman Holding a Ferret', a reference to 'Lady With an Ermine◊'), then improved upon them by erasing imperfections, adjusting symmetry, that sort of thing. One can't help but picture Photoshop or something as applied to reality. This artificial beauty and the fact that she doesn't quite know how to handle a human body (not always submitting to gravity, having an empty facial expression most of the time, having no 'body' smell at all) lead to Jeremy assuming at first she might be a zombie and to Igor feeling highly uncomfortable at her presence.
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Thief of Time / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Thief of Time / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: To help her image as a wealthy socialite, Lejean wears a huge white fur coat when she first meets Jeremy, then a mink stole later.
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Thief of Time / int_4a01ccd0	type	I Know Kung-Faux
Thief of Time / int_4a01ccd0	comment	I Know Kung-Faux: Several techniques are named, including Okidoki, Upsi-Dasi, and the mystical DÃ©jÃ Fu. That last one's real.
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Thief of Time / int_4c37b23	type	Third Line, Some Waiting
Thief of Time / int_4c37b23	comment	Third Line, Some Waiting: The main plot focuses on Lobsang/Lu Tze and Jeremy/Igor/Lady LeJean, with Susan and Death as C-plots.
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Thief of Time / int_4cfd9825	type	Colourful Theme Naming
Thief of Time / int_4cfd9825	comment	See also Colourful Theme Naming above. They even soon start arguing over who gets to be Mr. Black.
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Thief of Time / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Thief of Time / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: Throughout the book, the word tick is inserted in-between most scenes. When Lobsang fails to stop the glass clock, and time stops, the ticking stops mid-word, until the reborn Lobsang manages to turn it off.
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Thief of Time / int_53744f96	type	Empty Elevator
Thief of Time / int_53744f96	comment	Empty Elevator: The Auditors are waiting for the last humans alive for a given value of 'human' and 'alive' to come out of an elevator. They don't.
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Thief of Time / int_539179db	type	Synchronization
Thief of Time / int_539179db	comment	Synchronization: When Lobsang and Jeremy are near each other they exhibit this. The unconscious Jeremy echoes everything Lobsang says, and when Susan pinches Jeremy, Lobsang feels it too.
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Thief of Time / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
Thief of Time / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: Was the most accurate one. "Are you Lobsang or are you Jeremy?" "Yes."
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Thief of Time / int_54fb42f0	type	Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress
Thief of Time / int_54fb42f0	comment	The stance used to stop falling is called Stance of the Coyote.
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Thief of Time / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Thief of Time / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Death rides out to gather the Horsemen for the coming Apocalypse, but finds that each of them has, in some way, been rendered effectively useless by the qualities they acquired from being an Anthropomorphic Personification. The trope comes when they actually come to Death's aid, along with ex-Horseman Chaos, and War pushes his image as a Henpecked Husband aside (to his Valkyrie wife's nostalgic delight) to show that they're every bit as dangerous as they were prophesied to be. See Loophole Abuse for what happens next.
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Thief of Time / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Thief of Time / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Unsurprisingly, given how Death is one of them, but the Horsemen of the Apocalypse are at worst lazy and irritating, and they side with Death against the Auditors.
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Thief of Time / int_57650eae	type	Time Is Dangerous
Thief of Time / int_57650eae	comment	Time Is Dangerous: And how! The Procrastinators will work as intended if you know what you're doing; get it wrong and you could get hit by enough extra time to reduce you to dust. Qu's special 'toys' tend to use time in interesting ways, and then explode.
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Thief of Time / int_599aa670	type	What the Hell Are You?
Thief of Time / int_599aa670	comment	What the Hell Are You?: Lu-Tze to Lobsang.
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Thief of Time / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Thief of Time / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: Someone from the Guild of Clockmakers regularly checks that Jeremy is taking his medicine. Igor assures him that he sees Jeremy pour out a spoonful every day — but doesn't mention that he then pours it down the drain.
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Thief of Time / int_5c389eaf	type	The Air Not There
Thief of Time / int_5c389eaf	comment	The Air Not There: Averted. Lu-Tze mentions that special precautions have to be taken when slicing time to move the frozen-in-time air molecules out of the way.
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Thief of Time / int_5cd8680b	type	Doorstop Baby
Thief of Time / int_5cd8680b	comment	Doorstop Baby: Both Lobsang Ludd and Jeremy Clockson were left on doorsteps as infants - Jeremy at the Clockmaker's Guild, and Lobsang at the Thieves' Guild before he was discovered in his late teens by the History Monks.
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Thief of Time / int_5cfeb43f	type	Save Scumming
Thief of Time / int_5cfeb43f	comment	Save Scumming: The yetis have avoided extinction (three times) by working out how to perform what amounts to a quicksave and reload. Lu-Tze learned it from them later.
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Thief of Time / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
Thief of Time / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: During the sequence in Qu's workshop, Qu mentions that he's working a technique of weaponized chanting that incorporates frequencies that have a particular effect on the human nervous system.
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Thief of Time / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Thief of Time / int_617f0563	comment	Lady LeJean uses only the first person plural for much of her initial conversation with Jeremy, only to break out of it and refer to herself as "I" at the very end. Even before her status as an Auditor-in-human-guise was stated outright in the story, her transition to individuality/Heelâ€“Face Turn was already in progress.
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Thief of Time / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Thief of Time / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Soto - one of the best field agents the Monks of Time have - refuses to cut his hair, as he believes it to be a separate entity that simply happens to live on his head. At least, so he claims.
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Thief of Time / int_63a200ae	type	Smoky Gentlemen's Club
Thief of Time / int_63a200ae	comment	Smoky Gentlemen's Club: Ankh-Morpork has one, of a sort, where men of the city can get away from women. It's not that kind of gentlemen's club, which is a little down the street and much better decorated. Women aren't even allowed in this club most of the time. No, it's not that kind of gentlemen's club either. This is just a place where men who've spent their entire life being told what to do by women can sit down, put their feet up and loosen their belts for a bit. Death is allowed in, because of course he's a gentleman (he owns property in the country, is punctual and impeccably polite). Because women are not allowed in, any woman who does get in obviously doesn't really exist in their minds and thus can be ignored, as Susan demonstrates when she goes to pay granddad a visit.
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Thief of Time / int_63c6a75c	type	Evil Lawyer Joke
Thief of Time / int_63c6a75c	comment	Evil Lawyer Joke: Igor opens the door when Myria brings colleagues, and his tone of voice makes it clear what he thinks of them.
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Thief of Time / int_6537cc1a	type	All Girls Like Ponies
Thief of Time / int_6537cc1a	comment	All Girls Like Ponies: As a demonstration of the one exception everyone has, Susan would gladly give up everything about being Death's granddaughter in a heartbeat... were it not for the fact this would mean giving up Binky as well.
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Thief of Time / int_6587a846	type	Fantastic Time Management
Thief of Time / int_6587a846	comment	Fantastic Time Management: The title character can make time flow faster or slower for himself relative to the world around him. He regularly uses this ability for mundane everyday schedule management. (And for stealing things.) The History Monks in general are capable of this to varying degrees, though are usually taught to be more responsible with it outside the temple, and have the job of literally managing time (and history).
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Thief of Time / int_65bc52c5	type	The Key Is Behind the Lock
Thief of Time / int_65bc52c5	comment	The Crowbar is Inside the Box: There's a recurring metaphor about "opening a box with the crowbar you'll find inside". Done literally with the Igor shipped in a crate to Jeremy. He pushes the crowbar out of the crate through an airhole so Jeremy can open it since the shippers ignored 'This Way Up'.
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Thief of Time / int_65d658f	type	Putting the Band Back Together
Thief of Time / int_65d658f	comment	Putting the Band Back Together: Death trying to reunite the Four Horsemen.
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Thief of Time / int_665136e6	type	Animals Lack Attributes
Thief of Time / int_665136e6	comment	Animals Lack Attributes: Invoked when Susan takes a paper tube away from Jason and informs the boy that, no, the cardboard animal which the class is constructing is a polite horse. Possibly a reference to a 20th century joke campaign to clothe animals: "A nude horse is a rude horse!" was their slogan.
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Thief of Time / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Thief of Time / int_6b5a92dc	comment	This artificial beauty and the fact that she doesn't quite know how to handle a human body (not always submitting to gravity, having an empty facial expression most of the time, having no 'body' smell at all) lead to Jeremy assuming at first she might be a zombie and to Igor feeling highly uncomfortable at her presence.
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Thief of Time / int_6b8cd64a	type	Trainee from Hell
Thief of Time / int_6b8cd64a	comment	Trainee from Hell: The History Monks see Lobsang Ludd as this, because he's unfocused, prone to answering back, and worst of all innately good at this stuff, so there's not even anything they can punish him for. They describe him as "smart", a word which they use to mean a student who can't be taught because they think they know it already, and consider worse than a stupid student. They eventually hand him off to Trickster Mentor Lu-Tze, in the hope that at least one of them will break as a result.
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Thief of Time / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Thief of Time / int_6bda9a30	comment	Myria LeJeanâ€™s name is... Well, see Meaningful Name, above.
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Thief of Time / int_6c10754e	type	Secret Art
Thief of Time / int_6c10754e	comment	Secret Art: Deja fu. The monks don't know it because Lu-Tze hasn't taught them.
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Thief of Time / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Thief of Time / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: For Lu-Tze, it's his failure to stop the first Time Crash.
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Thief of Time / int_70351b6c	type	No Medication for Me
Thief of Time / int_70351b6c	comment	No Medication for Me: Jeremy takes medicine to make sure he doesn't become "too sane", but then decides he thinks better without it.
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Thief of Time / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Thief of Time / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: A few Auditors escape the final battle, but Unity figures they won't last past falling asleep; the sheer sensory horror of nightmares will do them in. They don't even get that far; a few try mugging Soto and damage his hair...
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Thief of Time / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Thief of Time / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: War.
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Thief of Time / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Thief of Time / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor. Lu-Tze in his disguise as a mere sweeper. Ronnie Soak, also known as Kaos, works as a milkman.
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Thief of Time / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Thief of Time / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Lu-Tze reminding everyone of Rule One, which is "Never act incautiously when facing a small wrinkly bald smiling old man!" He proves it by beating the tar out of the new personification of Time.
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Thief of Time / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
Thief of Time / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: The Angel ClothÃ¨d All in White of the Iron Book from the Prophecy of Tobrun is keen to remind you that 'ClothÃ¨d' is pronounced "cloth-edd". "It's the slanty thing over the E".
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Thief of Time / int_7a0f9ab6	type	The Pete Best
Thief of Time / int_7a0f9ab6	comment	The Pete Best: Kaos, the Fifth Horseman. invoked
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Thief of Time / int_7cdfe326	type	Cosmic Retcon
Thief of Time / int_7cdfe326	comment	Cosmic Retcon: The aforementioned Continuity Snarl is used to Hand Wave plot holes and Schizo Tech in the rest of the series.
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Thief of Time / int_7f9bfc3f	type	Human Mail
Thief of Time / int_7f9bfc3f	comment	Human Mail: Jeremy gets an Igor mailed to him in a box, part of the service for "We are Igors".
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Thief of Time / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Thief of Time / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Lobsang barely misses stopping the second clock because he slowed down to catch a falling Lu-Tze. Susan chastises him for this, calling him "hero" in a derogatory tone.
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Thief of Time / int_816a9d0c	type	Dramatic Slip
Thief of Time / int_816a9d0c	comment	Dramatic Slip: This causes the second half of the plot. Lobsang and Lu-Tze were running to reach the Glass Clock before it struck and would have made it if not for this trope. The stupidity is later lampshaded:
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Thief of Time / int_8171b426	type	Fantastically Indifferent
Thief of Time / int_8171b426	comment	Fantastically Indifferent: After time has been stopped, Ronnie Soak drops a milk bottle and sees it stop in mid-air when it leaves the personal field of time around Ronnie. 'Another idiot with a Clock', he surmises, but is otherwise unfazed.
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Thief of Time / int_81bdc398	type	He's Back!
Thief of Time / int_81bdc398	comment	He's Back!: Kaos becomes Chaos, which is something the auditors loathe, allowing the Horsemen to finally turn the tide. Shortly before that War shakes off the unfocused state the long stretch of relative peace had put him in when it's time to ride out.
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Thief of Time / int_838343d6	type	Fairy Tale
Thief of Time / int_838343d6	comment	Fairy Tale: Invoked to explain how stories work.
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Thief of Time / int_83adb272	type	Crystal Dragon Jesus
Thief of Time / int_83adb272	comment	Crystal Dragon Jesus: Readers with an eastern philosophy bent will quickly notice that "Order of Wen the Eternally Surprised" — a.k.a. the History Monks — is Buddhism with a dash of Taoism thrown in for taste. Wen is even the name of the mythological author of the I Ching, an important Taoist/Buddhist book. (In this case, Wen falling in love with Time is probably a subtle pun.)
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Thief of Time / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Thief of Time / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Clodpool, told that time will be like a coat, "to be worn when necessary and discarded when not", asks Wen if it will need to be washed. This is more or less the purpose of the History Monks.
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Thief of Time / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Thief of Time / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The Auditors when they take human form.
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Thief of Time / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Thief of Time / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Lobsang witnesses a sunrise in colours (like "surgical-appliance pink") that no artist would be caught dead using in a painting of a sunrise.
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Thief of Time / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Thief of Time / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The Angel of the Iron Book seemed pretty indignant (being told the work that contains your only appearance is no longer canon will do that to you), then vanished after a brief bit where he tries to carry out his original task anyway (at one point using his halo to separate two pages that had fused together).
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Thief of Time / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Thief of Time / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Rarely for a late Discworld novel, the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions are mentioned, as statues in the History Monks' garden (they call them dhlang, demons). An Auditor statue is among them and called the most dangerous of them all, despite its unassuming appearance.
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Thief of Time / int_87bf0789	type	Teacher's Pet
Thief of Time / int_87bf0789	comment	Teacher's Pet: Which manages to combine with Teacher's Unfavorite Student with Vincent, an insanely over-eager kid in Susan's class who bursts as the seams to answer every question first. As a result, Susan does everything she can short of outright lying to get someone, anyone else to answer instead. She has him pegged as "Most Likely to be One Day Murdered by his Wife". It's also implied his parents are much the same, given a mention of giving Susan chocolates at PTA meetings.
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Thief of Time / int_8941750b	type	Willfully Weak
Thief of Time / int_8941750b	comment	Willfully Weak: During their sparring match at the end, Lu Tze points out that Lobsang, as the new incarnation of Time, could just rewrite the timeline or even erase Lu Tze from history in order to win their match. Lobsang knows he could, but also knows he could never live with himself if he used his full power for such petty reasons.
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Thief of Time / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Thief of Time / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: The opening chapter, discussing where stories begin, speculates about happy polar bears and seals that meet with tragedy when tons of floating iron and an exciting soundtrack collide with their iceberg.
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Thief of Time / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Thief of Time / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: The narration notes because of the way the History Monks move time around, when people say things like "It's Sunday already? It feels like Friday was only yesterday!" this might literally be true.
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Thief of Time / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
Thief of Time / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: Oh the headache. After two Time Crashes things are very messed up but still fixed by the end of the book.
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Thief of Time / int_902ff525	type	Sdrawkcab Alias
Thief of Time / int_902ff525	comment	Sdrawkcab Alias: Ronnie Soak. According to Pratchett, he only realized who Soak really was a minute or two before Lu-Tze did, and ran into a bathroom with a pen and a piece of paper to check to see if it was recognizeable when it was mirrored.
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Thief of Time / int_9381f239	type	Clockwork Creature
Thief of Time / int_9381f239	comment	Clockwork Creature: One of Igor's previous insane masters constructed a "ticktock man" from wires and springs, programmed with hole-punched paper tape. It could sweep the floor and make a nice cup of tea, unless it bumped something - in which case it broke the furniture and made a furious cup of cat.
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Thief of Time / int_93a38c9b	type	Magic Feather
Thief of Time / int_93a38c9b	comment	Magic Feather: The portable procrastinator, but only for Lobsang: he makes his own time since he's Time's son.
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Thief of Time / int_95a44da6	type	Ant War
Thief of Time / int_95a44da6	comment	Ant War: War and his children hang around observing one of these, simply because the relatively peaceful age has left them nothing better to do. They hang severed ant heads from their saddles to fit the setting.
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Thief of Time / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Thief of Time / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: While the book was being written, a chance to appear in the book as a character was offered as a prize in a charity auction. The winner, Marcus Soto, appears as a history monk (the one with the Hair).
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Thief of Time / int_964163e9	type	Mistaken for Profound
Thief of Time / int_964163e9	comment	Mistaken for Profound: Lu-Tze thinks what Mrs. Marietta Cosmopolite says is deep wisdom. It shows up Lobsang, who assumes the Way is more mystical, when Lu-Tze manages to use the Way to ignore the cold by wearing a masterfully crafted pair of longjohns made by Mrs. Cosmopolite. Lu-Tze is later called a master at seeing "the wisdom hidden in plain sight."
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Thief of Time / int_966b4df0	type	Time Police
Thief of Time / int_966b4df0	comment	Time Police: Deconstructed by the History Monks. Before the Crash they were a straightforward example, but since the disaster (if the word 'since' is applicable) they've gone from "make sure tomorrow turns out the way it's supposed to" to a desperate "make sure tomorrow happens at all".
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Thief of Time / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Thief of Time / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Susan is revealed to have a sweet tooth and finds herself unable to resist the appeal of a quality chocolate. She gets quite angry when she's found out to have been eating one of the chocolates they used as ammunition and is dismayed to discover that Lu-Tze can stop after eating one chocolate coated coffee bean (although it is implied he makes a show of it to one up her).
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Thief of Time / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Thief of Time / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Lu-Tze reminds the abbot of how, traditionally, an apprentice sets off into the world with his master, to find his Way and, eventually, himself. Lobsang finds himself literally, as well as the Way home to Time's glass halls. At the beginning of the book, Susan's inner monologue discusses how lonely she is, and how impossible it is to have a meaningful relationship with a mortal with only five senses. The end of the book has her getting together with Lobsang, the son and new personification of Time. The other monks often say of Lobsang that he's "not all there". Which is correct, because he's a single soul born twice, and the other half of him is still in Ankh-Morpork. Lady LeJean uses only the first person plural for much of her initial conversation with Jeremy, only to break out of it and refer to herself as "I" at the very end. Even before her status as an Auditor-in-human-guise was stated outright in the story, her transition to individuality/Heelâ€“Face Turn was already in progress.
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Thief of Time / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Thief of Time / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In reference to the Continuity Snarl mentioned below, Lu-Tze points out several issues that fans have pointed out over the years about Discworld continuity as examples of problems caused by the new patchwork history. For example, there's the opera house/theatre business and the fact that Ephebe's philosophers are so long-lived (they appear both in Pyramids and Small Gods, set about a century earlier). Also a Fandom Nod. Leafing through his book of Memories, Death pauses when he turns to a recollection of xylophone music. In Soul Music, the raven snarks to Susan that ordinary children get given xylophones, they don't play music on their grandfather's ribcage. Susan asks if Lobsang has "rhythm in his soul", a reference to Soul Music. During the headmistress's interview with Susan, it's mentioned that one of the children who'd been terrified of bogeymen before joining Susan's class has now started hunting for them with her father's sword in hand. Sounds like belief in the poker is transferable to other implements too. This isn't the first time a Discworld character has crafted the masterpiece he'd dreamed of using notes scribbled all over his bedclothes: when filming Blown Away in Moving Pictures, Dibbler had Detritus carry his whole bed around so he could consult the script. Leonardo Da Quirm had it happen to him so often he tried to invent a helmet he could wear in bed so he'd stop waking up to designs of siege engines with carefully listed set of parts scribbled all over his sheets. There is a brief mention of the grand The Dysk theatre that was under construction in Wyrd Sisters now being a small, shabby regular stage theatre. Nobody remembers it ever being anything else, presumably through a Cosmic Retcon by the History Monks. When the angel appears to herald the apocalypse, Death informs him that his role is no longer official part of the Book of Om as of the interpretation by Prophet Brutha, from Small Gods.
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Thief of Time / int_a05dd4ba	type	Inconspicuous Immortal
Thief of Time / int_a05dd4ba	comment	Inconspicuous Immortal: It's revealed that dependable milkman Ronnie Soak is actually Kaos, the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. Having left the team before they became famous, Kaos has no desire to continue his usual antics or duties even after eons of retirement, and prefers to use his otherworldly nature simply to become a supernaturally-reliable milkman.
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Thief of Time / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Thief of Time / int_a1a1491e	comment	The theme of Auditors in human form all dressing in monochrome grey — grey clothes, grey hats, grey shoes — might be a homage to the Grey Gentlemen in Michael Ende's fantasy novel Momo, published in 1973 (alternative titles in English were The Grey Gentlemen or The Men in Grey). The villanous (and non-human) Grey Gentlemen were also called "time thieves" because they stole time from humans by persuading them to "save" time and deposit it in the Grey Gentlemen's time banks to be paid back with interest at an unspecified date.
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Thief of Time / int_a3cf9ef6	type	…And That Little Girl Was Me
Thief of Time / int_a3cf9ef6	comment	â€¦And That Little Girl Was Me: Played with. Lu-Tze doesn't get any further into the story than "There was once this young sweeper—" before Lobsang interrupts to point out that he's obviously talking about himself.
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Thief of Time / int_a52d2915	type	Colour-Coded Timestop
Thief of Time / int_a52d2915	comment	Colour-Coded Timestop: Not only the passages in which time is sliced are described as having weird colours, Lobsang eventually confirms that there are scrolls explaining how the world changes its colours as time is sliced. And the reduced speed of light on Discworld - just 600 mph - makes the effect visible at even mild time slices.
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Thief of Time / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Thief of Time / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Jason, the most unruly child in Madame Frout's academy, and who was transferred into Susan's class in a surprisingly underhanded move from Frout to get back at Susan. He's compared to the child equivalent of a WMD, but Susan more-or-less manages to keep him contained.
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Thief of Time / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Thief of Time / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Lu-Tze. In truly epic amounts.
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Thief of Time / int_a8784482	type	Primordial Chaos
Thief of Time / int_a8784482	comment	Primordial Chaos: Kaos, the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. He left before they got famous.
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Thief of Time / int_a8d6bd1f	type	Reality-Breaking Paradox
Thief of Time / int_a8d6bd1f	comment	Reality-Breaking Paradox: The Glass Clock; because time is simultaneously real and an illusion, a clock that keeps perfect time, down to the Plank length, will necessarily be unable to be both created and destroyed due to needing to tick first, which will trap Time, the Anthropomorphic Personification in it and prevent time from moving forward.
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Thief of Time / int_aa88f109	type	Humanity Is Infectious
Thief of Time / int_aa88f109	comment	Humanity Is Infectious: The Auditors, especially Lejean and Mr White.
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Thief of Time / int_ab17e948	type	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
Thief of Time / int_ab17e948	comment	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: The narrator remarks, "If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry." The reaction of Qu when Lobsang starts picking up things in his workshop.
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Thief of Time / int_ac0ca62e	type	Nobody Touches the Hair
Thief of Time / int_ac0ca62e	comment	Nobody Touches the Hair: Marco Soto.
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Thief of Time / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Thief of Time / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When the Sweeper and Lobsang cut through a dojo as a shortcut, one of the students angrily stops him and challenges him to a fight when the Sweeper won't leave. Then the Sweeper introduces himself to the student, triggering this reaction.
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Thief of Time / int_ad952d6e	type	Renowned Selective Mentor
Thief of Time / int_ad952d6e	comment	Renowned Selective Mentor: Everyone is shocked when Lobsang becomes the apprentice of Lu-Tze The Sweeper. Even if they don't recognise The Sweeper in person, they are shocked by his rep, and because he never takes apprentices anymore. In fact Lobsang's apprenticeship is a punishment posting for both of them in different ways.
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Thief of Time / int_af98df4e	type	They Called Me Mad!
Thief of Time / int_af98df4e	comment	They Called Me Mad!: Mentioned. Igor feels Jeremy should be doing this, and is quite unnerved when he doesn't.
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Thief of Time / int_b109e518	type	Twisting the Words
Thief of Time / int_b109e518	comment	Twisting the Words: After Lu-Tze gets explicit non-permission from the Abbott to go near Uberwald, he starts packing, telling Lobsang that the Abbott will take a nap and likely forget what he said, at which point all the monks will start "interpreting" what he'd actually said.
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Thief of Time / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Thief of Time / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Used by the Horsemen in the climax, as they decide to fight the Auditors on humanity's behalf: The History Monks are supposed to shave their heads. Soto gets away with having an impressive ponytail by saying his hair is a separate entity from himself. The monks in charge probably don't believe this, but seem to have decided not to push the issue, concerned what a man who could come up with an excuse like that might do.
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Thief of Time / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
Thief of Time / int_b426973b	comment	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: This is a large sticking point for Myria LeJean who is the Pathfinder for the Auditors. They don't like having to eat and breath but Myria later embraces the disgusting aspects of life and this leads to her Heelâ€“Face Turn. An Auditor imparts an analogy (which turns out to be fallacious) about the "water in a jug": no matter what container the water is placed in, it remains unchanged. It's Myria's realization that it is wrong; for a mind in a body, the "water" is truly changed by the jug.
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Thief of Time / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Thief of Time / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Terry Pratchett really hates nougat. He also doesn't seem to think too highly of "progressive" education, describing Madame Frout's Academy as chaos before Susan showed up.
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Thief of Time / int_b6287eff	type	Briar Patching
Thief of Time / int_b6287eff	comment	Briar Patching: When the monks learn that a new Glass Clock is being built, Lu-Tze makes a big deal about how much he wants to go to Uberwald to look for it, correctly assuming that he will be prevented from going to Uberwald and will thus be free to go and deal with the real problem in Ankh-Morpork.
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Thief of Time / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Thief of Time / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist/Exact Words: Tobrun was right about the Horsemen bringing terror to the multitudes. He just failed to specify that they'd be multitudes of Auditors. The Horsemen will ride out at the Apocalypse. The prophecy never said against whom. Death is able to convince his fellow Horsemen to ride out to save the universe.
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Thief of Time / int_bbc8a85d	type	Reluctant Mad Scientist
Thief of Time / int_bbc8a85d	comment	Reluctant Mad Scientist: Jeremy Clockson just wants to make his clocks, he has no idea a truly perfect clock would be a Reality-Breaking Paradox, which is more than can be said for the first Glass Clock.
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Thief of Time / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Thief of Time / int_bc74ef27	comment	Clockmaker's Guild member Jeremy Clockson is able to keep every single clock in his shop synchronized almost perfectly, even ones that rely on animals or plants to operate. He's so obsessed with keeping perfect time that he beat another guild member (possibly to death) for deliberately keeping his pocket watch a few minutes fast. As it eventually turns out, his ability is due to his being one of the two sons (yes, that is written correctly) of Time herself.
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Thief of Time / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
Thief of Time / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Jeremy.
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Thief of Time / int_bed47e72	type	Element No. 5
Thief of Time / int_bed47e72	comment	Element No. 5: As in the previous book, it is said that on the Disc the Fifth Element is "Surprise". Fitting the number, Lu-Tze has a 'Garden of Four Elements' which Lobsang attempts to puzzle out after only finding three of them. The fourth traditional element, fire, which has no place in a garden, is found in a nearby bakery oven, so what is the fourth element in the garden? Lu-Tze puts on a cheap carnival mask with a "Boo!" "I never said it was a good surprise..."
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Thief of Time / int_bf1f379a	type	Sense Freak
Thief of Time / int_bf1f379a	comment	Sense Freak: The Auditors in human form, to the point that they die from taste bud stimulation.
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Thief of Time / int_bf68ac04	type	First Time Feeling
Thief of Time / int_bf68ac04	comment	First Time Feeling: When Lady Lejean and the other Auditors take human form, the find themselves momentarily overwhelmed by the sensory overload of simple existence. They pass out from the taste of dry toast, and chocolate kills them. Then they discover the danger of strong emotions, such as fear and anger...
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Thief of Time / int_bfc2ec8a	type	That Makes Me Feel Angry
Thief of Time / int_bfc2ec8a	comment	That Makes Me Feel Angry: The Auditors in human form reporting their emotions without knowing the term for it. Including pain...
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Thief of Time / int_c0bfb059	type	Against My Religion
Thief of Time / int_c0bfb059	comment	Against My Religion: Used by an (unusually creative) Auditor to explain his irrational behavior while disguised as a human.
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Thief of Time / int_c0fda9f6	type	All Amazons Want Hercules
Thief of Time / int_c0fda9f6	comment	All Amazons Want Hercules: Mrs. War (a Valkyrie) henpecks her husband for nearly all her time onscreen. But when War gets his He's Back! moment (and his spine back), she blushes happily when he stands up to her and tells her to back off.
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Thief of Time / int_c256bad3	type	Weapons of Their Trade
Thief of Time / int_c256bad3	comment	Weapons of Their Trade: Lu-Tze the Sweeper, a man who spends his days being the literal Almighty Janitor of an order of monks, comments that since no one notices weird little monks who are just sweeping up the place to begin with, he's far more stealthy and better equipped than the most highly trained of ninja. Not least because, in addition to being able to seriously inconvenience someone about twenty-seven different ways with a broom, if the floor gets dirty you can take care of that too.
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Thief of Time / int_c2c15b23	type	Bait-and-Switch Comment
Thief of Time / int_c2c15b23	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comment: When Lu-Tze takes a shortcut through the dojo, he is accosted by a young monk who accuses him of being somewhere he's not allowed and prepares to beat him up. The dojo master intervenes, asking, "Do you not wish to know the name of the man you are about to destroy?", and when the young monk scoffs that he doesn't need to know the name of a servant, the dojo master clarifies that his question was addressed to Lu-Tze. When Jeremy asks Igor if he's good at glasswork, he says that he isn't — he's bloody amazing at glasswork.
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Thief of Time / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Thief of Time / int_c75df49a	comment	Lu-Tze being a simple sweeper might also be a Shout-Out to the wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, where the most powerful character is a sweeping monk in the Shaolin temple who only appears in a few scenes and is never named. His name is also a distortion of Lao Tzu, the legendary founder of Taoism.
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Thief of Time / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Thief of Time / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Lu-Tze beating down Time.
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Thief of Time / int_ce323098	type	Self-Mutilation Demonstration
Thief of Time / int_ce323098	comment	Self-Mutilation Demonstration: Cutting off the yeti's head to demonstrate his Save Scumming ability.
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Thief of Time / int_cec142d6	comment	Knuckle Cracking: When Lady Lejean and her bodyguards first visit Jeremy, one of the bodyguards cracks his knuckles when he sees Jeremy looking at him.
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Thief of Time / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Thief of Time / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: For the first six Auditors to become human after Lady Lejean is trying to stop the clock. For beings who hated imagination and could never lie, the way they countered her attempts to stop them were quite impressive.
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Thief of Time / int_d2ccb43e	type	Delicious Distraction
Thief of Time / int_d2ccb43e	comment	Delicious Distraction: Made easy since the Auditors are not used to their new senses.
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Thief of Time / int_d2cd18c0	type	Forbidden Fruit
Thief of Time / int_d2cd18c0	comment	Forbidden Fruit: The Stationary Cupboard in Susan's classroom. Since the concept of "no" doesn't really register with seven year olds, Susan has to deal with all manner of ridiculously transparent attempts by Jason to gain entry into it.
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Thief of Time / int_d5daa5ca	type	I Am Legion
Thief of Time / int_d5daa5ca	comment	Myria LeJean, Myriad Legion. After Susan convinces her that it's no good to build her confidence on numbers, she changes her name to Unity.
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Thief of Time / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Thief of Time / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: One of the Auditors starts spouting absolutely ---ing organic modifiers and interjections after discovering how unpleasant it is to have a body and failing to express her frustration through normal human expletives (as well as Auditor's expressions of "Discord!" and the like, which just lack the effect she was looking for).
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Thief of Time / int_da3043c5	type	Fake Ultimate Hero
Thief of Time / int_da3043c5	comment	Fake Ultimate Hero: Played with but ultimately averted with Lu-Tze, who really is as good as his legend says.
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Thief of Time / int_db30c9d0	type	Deconstructed
Thief of Time / int_db30c9d0	comment	Deconstructed with slicing — a small pocket of space around the slicer is still subject to the ordinary passage of time, so it is necessary to move around so that the air around you doesn't get used up and cause you to suffocate. Also, touching a fast-moving object like a crossbow bolt is a really bad idea.
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Thief of Time / int_dc57d1e6	type	Hilarious in Hindsight
Thief of Time / int_dc57d1e6	comment	Hilarious in Hindsight: We are finally given a canonical, in-Universe explanation for Discworld's continuity anomalies. Later in the book, Lu-Tze punches Time.
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Thief of Time / int_dcf83f95	type	Number Obsession
Thief of Time / int_dcf83f95	comment	Number Obsession: The Auditors of Reality want to be able to count everything, as befits their role. When they experience humanity for the first time and encounter phenomena that can't be reduced to numbers, they suffer various types of mental breakdown and attempt things like breaking a painting apart into its individual molecules in a fruitless effort to determine where "beauty" comes from. (They also routinely attempt to destroy humanity in order to remove the problem.)
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Thief of Time / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
Thief of Time / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: In-universe example, this is what happened to Discworld history after the first Glass Clock struck and the History Monks were unable to completely repair it. There's even a Shout-Out to specific continuity errors fans have previously pointed out, such as some characters crossing over between Pyramids and Small Gods despite the books taking place decades apart (... probably) and the setting up of a Shakespearean-style theatre being new and radical in Wyrd Sisters when it turns out that the city has had a Victorian-style opera house for many years in Maskerade.
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Thief of Time / int_dfa71e43	type	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Thief of Time / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Some of the Auditors end up seeming quite relatable as they navigate and endure the peculiarities of humanity, especially in comparison to other incarnated Auditors — such as Mr. White, who takes to vicious bullying almost as well as some humans, along with a dose of Ax-Crazy.
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Thief of Time / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Thief of Time / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: One of Lobsang's instructors recounts to the Abbot how, in an attempt to embarrass Lobsang into paying attention, he challenged the boy to solve the problem on the blackboard; only Lobsang was looking at the wrong problem, and instead solved part of a lesson that had been impossible even for the advanced students who it had been intended for. This is more or less what happened to George Dantzig in 1939 when he was a graduate student at Berkeley; he arrived late to a statistics class one day and scrawled down from the blackboard what he assumed was part of his homework assignment. Six weeks after he turned it in, his professor came to him and told him he'd solved two rather famous unsolved problems that had been giving mathematicians trouble for years.
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Thief of Time / int_e201cc	type	The Bore
Thief of Time / int_e201cc	comment	The Bore: Jeremy is introduced as someone whose only topic of conversation is clocks - he can expound at length about each and every kind of clock imaginable, and is more likely to run out of listeners before he runs out of clocks. He's also said to be so dull that, if he decided to become interesting, he'd likely search for a book on how to be interesting and try to see if there are any classes he can take.
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Thief of Time / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Thief of Time / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: One of Susan's students, who takes ages to respond to questions, if she doesn't zone out in the meantime. On the rare occasions she does come off her cloud, Susan regards it as a major accomplishment, and sometimes she manages surprisingly astute observations.
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Thief of Time / int_e4616e62	type	Not so Dire
Thief of Time / int_e4616e62	comment	Not so Dire: Three novices once pushed over Lu-Tze's shrine (when he was already a Memetic Badass). The abbot tells them that until they find the courage to confess to Lu-Tze and then face him in the final dojo to learn his Way, they will remain sweepers.
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Thief of Time / int_e5120d	type	The Igor
Thief of Time / int_e5120d	comment	The Igor: Or rather an Igor. The Auditors hire one to assist Jeremy in making the clock.
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Thief of Time / int_e541901e	type	Duck!
Thief of Time / int_e541901e	comment	And no waterfowl in sight either.
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Thief of Time / int_e544916b	type	Kiai
Thief of Time / int_e544916b	comment	Kiai: The monks' various martial arts use Funny Bruce Lee Noises, allowing the Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy to turn "ohshee" into "oh shit" when he learns who he's fighting.
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Thief of Time / int_e57c714d	type	Insane Equals Violent
Thief of Time / int_e57c714d	comment	Insane Equals Violent: Mr. White did not handle incarnation well. Jeremy is an inverted, milder case - he's absolutely sane. The only violence he did was offscreen, a Noodle Incident, and apparently was very, very messy. He has medicine for it now.
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Thief of Time / int_e7b1cb24	type	Old Master
Thief of Time / int_e7b1cb24	comment	Old Master: Played with. Lu-Tze has a fearsome reputation among the History Monks as a powerful warrior, but over the course of the story, he reveals that most of his feats are accomplished by simple trickery. Then he puts a physical embodiment of time in a submission hold.
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Thief of Time / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Thief of Time / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Lu-Tze is generally easy-going and seems to view the world as a big joke that only he is in on, but when it seems like he and Lobsang are going to be too late to stop time being destroyed (again), he becomes entirely serious and short-tempered. Downplayed at the very end, where he displays frightening keenness and helpfulness in front of the chief acolyte in order to get the ceremony going.
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Thief of Time / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Thief of Time / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Igor assures Jeremy's boss that he sees him pour out a spoonful of his medicine regularly. What he doesn't mention is that Jeremy then pours the spoonful of medicine down the sink instead of down his throat. Lu-Tze tells Lobsang that none of the monks know Deja-Fu. This is because Lu-Tze never taught it to them. And he's (technically) not a monk.
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Thief of Time / int_eb8856	type	The X of Y
Thief of Time / int_eb8856	comment	The X of Y: The title.
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Thief of Time / int_ec1f731c	type	Individuality Is Illegal
Thief of Time / int_ec1f731c	comment	Individuality Is Illegal: A number of Auditors takes human form and individual names, a venture that ends in bloodshed and chaos, with the last survivor deciding to commit suicide in a vat of chocolate.
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Thief of Time / int_ef3d1b57	type	Technician Versus Performer
Thief of Time / int_ef3d1b57	comment	Technician Versus Performer: Though timekeeping is not exactly an art form, this describes Jeremy and Lobsang's differences to a T. Note how high-strung and terrifying exact the "technician" Jeremy is, while Lobsang is such a performer half the time he has no idea what he even is doing, but his talent is spilling over everywhere.
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Thief of Time / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Thief of Time / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Chaos (Ronnie Soak) has an impossibly cold sword, and, like Death, the ability to be where he needs to be. He uses the sword to keep milk cold, and the ability to deliver milk and dairy products to thousands of customers in Ankh-Morpork. Every day. At precisely 7 AM. Everywhere. Susan, as part of her inherited powers from being Death's Granddaughter, can stop time for herself. She mentions this power is great for grading her students' work. She also uses the compelling voice to get some time off. The voice, however, won't be able to get her a pay raise. Lu-Tze won't use the abilities of the Time Monks to keep his legs warm. But he makes an exception for feet, for while Mrs. Cosmopolite makes wonderful legwarmers her knitwear skills fail when it comes to socks.
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Thief of Time / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Thief of Time / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: The book that contains the story of the orginal glass clock is Grim Fairy Tales. The niece of the authors is a main character in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, published later the same year.
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Thief of Time / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
Thief of Time / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Just try to not be in the mood for chocolate after finishing this one.
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Thief of Time / int_f4061d83	type	Capital Letters Are Magic
Thief of Time / int_f4061d83	comment	Capital Letters Are Magic: Madame Frout can capitalize any word she believes is Important (or is something she disapproves of). The discussion on Igors and what is Done and what is Not Done.
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Thief of Time / int_f5a6baa5	type	Assurance Backfire
Thief of Time / int_f5a6baa5	comment	Assurance Backfire: Jeremy's not mad. He even has a piece of paper saying so. Not many people do. Funnily enough, Igor — no stranger to "eccentric genius" — doesn't find this reassuring. More the opposite.
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Thief of Time / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
Thief of Time / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification: Given this book is part of the Death series they're bound to show up. There's the Auditors of course but also the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Time; it had previously been hinted in an earlier version of the Discworld Companion that she was female, because "Time waits for no man"... except Wen.
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Thief of Time / int_fb0382ea	type	Merger of Souls
Thief of Time / int_fb0382ea	comment	Merger of Souls: Lobsang Ludd and his not-quite-twin brother Jeremy Clockson. The really weird truth, when it comes out, is that they are not twins at all but the same soul born twice due to a temporal anomaly (their mother is the anthropomorphic personification of Time, and her labour got a bit strange, despite the best midwife in the Discworld being present). The two half-souls are allowed to fuse together towards the end of the book, with Lobsang dominating, so as to take over the job of running Time from their mother.
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Thief of Time / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Thief of Time / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: The Auditors attempt to analyze art by disassembling paintings into their component molecules.
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Thief of Time / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Thief of Time / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The Auditors with colours, so much so that they run out of colours and start calling themselves things like Mr. Taupe.
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Thief of Time / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Thief of Time / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: More like a convoluted way to get to a 'perfect moment.' At the start of the book, it's mentioned that the history and lead-up to a 'perfect moment' is not straightforward. At the very end of the book, Susan and Lobsang have their 'perfect moment.' Early on, Lu-Tze considers the monastery's valley in which it is always the same day and the cherry trees are in blossom forever, and mentions that it might be nice to pick cherries for once. At the end, Lobsang makes the trees bear fruit as a gift to him. The repeated uses of Tick to mark narrative shifts between scenes is eventually proven to have a purpose when the Glass Clock stops time and a Ti- appears. When time resumes, it's with a -ck. When hungry, Lobsang asks if monks know a technique to feed on air, Lu-Tze responds "On the planet Sausage, maybe". At the very end Chaos says there are planets made entirely of chocolate. The opening scene begins with Death watching a demonstration involving large quantities of buttered toast, before the subject moves on; several pages and an extended flashback sequence later, when the reader is unlikely to be actively recalling the scene's beginning, the scene ends with Death doing a comic pratfall after slipping in some spilled butter. The explanation for this experiment (every toast ends up butter-side down) is explained much later as malignity- ordinary objects becoming more hostile to non-objects (garden hoses tangling up) is an indicator of increased Auditor activity or presence. There is a brick joke going all the way back to the previous book Hogfather. There, Death tells Susan that if she were to break the universe down into component pieces, she wouldn't find a single atom of Mercy, Justice, or the other "Big Lies" that people tell themselves. In this book the Auditors do exactly that! Played for humor, they are seen splitting a painting into its component atoms to try to find out why it is considered Beautiful.
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Thief of Time	hasFeature	Against My Religion / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Alternate Self / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Always Save the Girl / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Animals Lack Attributes / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Artificial Human / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Assurance Backfire / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Baby Talk / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Badass Teacher / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Beneath Notice / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Blank Slate / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Blunt Metaphors Trauma / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Bored with Insanity / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Brainless Beauty / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Bring My Brown Pants / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Brits Love Tea / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Can't You Read the Sign? / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Catch Your Death of Cold / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Cherry Blossoms / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Class Pet / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Clock King / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Clock Tampering / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Colour-Coded Timestop / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Comical Coffee Cup / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Compelling Voice / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Contest Winner Cameo / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Cosmic Retcon / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Couldn't Find a Pen / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Creative Sterility / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Creepy Cleanliness / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Culture Justifies Anything / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Cute Kitten / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Dead Pet Sketch / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Deadly Training Area / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Death Means Humanity / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Delicious Distraction / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Dissimile / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Dissonant Serenity / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Divided Deity / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Doomed Moral Victor / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Doppelmerger / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Dr. Fakenstein / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Dramatic Ellipsis / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Dramatic Slip / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Duck! / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Eating Optional / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Embodiment of Virtue / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Emergency Temporal Shift / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Emotional Maturity Is Physical Maturity / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	English Literature / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Faceless Goons / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Fake Ultimate Hero / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Famous-Named Foreigner / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Fantastic Fighting Style / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Father Time / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Faux Flame / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Field Trip to the Past / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Food Pills / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Food Porn / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Forbidden Fruit / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Frankenstein's Monster / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Funny Bruce Lee Noises / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Gadgeteer Genius / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Gag Penis / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Girls Love Chocolate / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Give Me Back My Wallet / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	God Job / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Good Behavior Points / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Great Way to Go / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Happiness in Minimum Wage / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Henpecked Husband / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Hippie Teacher / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Hold Your Hippogriffs / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Horsemen of the Apocalypse / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Human Doorstop / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Human Mail / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Human Mom, Non-Human Dad / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Humanity Is Insane / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Humanoid Abomination / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Hyper-Awareness / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	I Know Kung-Faux / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Ice-Cream Koan / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Ignored Raised Hand / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Immortality Immorality / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Implausible Synchrony / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Impossible Theft / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Impossibly Delicious Food / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Inconspicuous Immortal / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Innocent Innuendo / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Intrigued by Humanity / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"? / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	It's Always Spring / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Kiai / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Koan / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Law of Disproportionate Response / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Legacy Character / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Lightning Can Do Anything / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Liminal Time / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Literary Allusion Title / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Logic Bomb / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Lying by Omission / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Magic Feather / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Martial Arts and Crafts / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Martial Pacifist / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Match Cut / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Mathematician's Answer / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	McNinja / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Mental Time Travel / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Merger of Souls / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Minor Injury Overreaction / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Mister Strangenoun / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Mortality Grey Area / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Motionless Makeover / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Move in the Frozen Time / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Never Recycle a Building / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Ninja / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	No Medication for Me / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	No Place for Me There / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Nobody Touches the Hair / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Not in Front of the Kid / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Not so Dire / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Number Obsession / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Offing the Mouth / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	One Bullet Left / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Ontological Inertia / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Panicky Expectant Father / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Parenthetical Swearing / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Peggy Sue / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Perfection Is Impossible / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Phlebotinum Analogy / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Place Beyond Time / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Power Born of Madness / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Power Floats / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Pretty in Mink / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Reality-Breaking Paradox / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Reassignment Backfire / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Renowned Selective Mentor / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Repetitive Audio Glitch / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Reverse Psychology / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Rogue Drone / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Room Full of Crazy / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Rule #1 / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Runs with Scissors / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Sdrawkcab Alias / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Self-Constructed Being / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Self-Mutilation Demonstration / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Sensory Overload / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Sibling Fusion / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Sibling Seniority Squabble / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Sidetracked by the Analogy / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Smoky Gentlemen's Club / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Split at Birth / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Stock Quotes / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Stock "Yuck!" / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Stolen Good, Returned Better / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Teacher's Pet / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Temporal Duplication / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	That Poor Plant / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	The Air Not There / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	The Gift / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	The Greatest Style / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	The Key Is Behind the Lock / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	The Pete Best / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	The X of Y / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Theory of Narrative Causality / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	There Should Be a Law / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	There Was a Door / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Tied-Together-Shoelace Trip / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Time Crash / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Time Is Dangerous / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Time Stands Still / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Too Dumb to Fool / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Tortured Monster / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Trainee from Hell / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Transhuman Treachery / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Trickster Mentor / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Twitchy Eye / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Two Aliases, One Character / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Un-Paused / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Uncanny Valley / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Unusual Chapter Numbers / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Valkyries / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Wax On, Wax Off / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Weak, but Skilled / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Weapons of Their Trade / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Weather Dissonance / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Weirdness Censor / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Welcome to the Big City / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	When Things Spin, Science Happens / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Wouldn't Hit a Girl / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	Year Inside, Hour Outside / int_77be988d
Thief of Time	hasFeature	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With / int_77be988d

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