A Hat Full of Sky: Difference between revisions

In addition to the politics of witches to begin with, there's the continuing support of the Nac Mac Feegle, and a mysterious force known as a hiver which is drawn to Tiffany's power, and it'll take all the effort of the Feegles, all the cunning of Granny Weatherwax, and all of Tiffany's own strength, to outwit it...

 

 

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Annagramma. As stereotypical as any character gets in the Discworld.

** Subverted later on, laying foundation for Wintersmith:

{{quote| "Um . . . that was very kind of you," said Tiffany, but her treacherous Second Thoughts thought: And what would you have done if it had attacked us? She had a momentary picture of Petulia standing in front of some horrible raging thing, but it wasn't as funny as she'd first thought. Petulia ''would'' stand in front of it, shaking with terror, her useless amulets clattering, scared almost out of her mind . . . but not backing away. She'd thought there might be people facing something horrible here, and she'd come ''anyway''. }}

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: The Feegles were thrown out of Fairyland for rebelling against the Elf Queen, "and no' fer being totally pished at three in th' afternoon, whatever any scunner might say!"

* [[Synchronized Swarming]]: The ending features this.

* [[Talking the Monster To Death]]: {{spoiler|Quite literally. At the end, Tiffany has to help the Hiver find its way into Death.}}

* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: Rob Anybody's complaint when the Feegles are pretending to be a human -- "I talk to my knees but they dinna listen to me." -- is almost but not quite the first line of a famous song from ''[[Paint Your Wagon (Theatre)|Paint Your Wagon]]''. The fact that the song is completely inappropriate to the context just makes it funnier.

* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]: Played straight ''and'' subverted with Jeannie.

* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: Near the end of the book, Tiffany finally gets around to chiding Annagramma for abusing the word "literally".