Interesting Times: Difference between revisions

{{quote| 'Like, supposing the population is being a bit behind with its taxes. You pick some city where people are being troublesome and kill everyone and set fire to it and pull down the walls and plough up the ashes. That way you get rid of the trouble and all the other cities are suddenly really well behaved and polite and all your back taxes turn up in a big rush, which is handy for governments, I understand. Then if they ever give trouble you just have to say "Remember Nangnang?" or whatever, and they say "Where's Nangnang?" and you say, "My point exactly."'}}

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Genghiz Cohen. Doer of mighty deeds. Slayer of dragons. Ravager of cities. He once bought an apple.

{{quote| "Fetch me another tea girl. One with a head."}}

** Given this, it's unsurprising that he's {{spoiler|eventually killed by a means no-one could possibly have predicted or planned for--Rincewind being randomly teleported away and replaced with a Barking Dog about to fire.}}

* [[Beware the Honest Ones]]/[[Beware the Nice Ones]]: To the ''max''.

* [[Boomerang Comeback]]: When Rincewind ends up at Fourecks, the natives decide to test him by offering him a boomerang. Rincewind has no idea what it is and, [[Genre Savvy|(correctly) assuming it's just another plot hook]], angrily throws it away and announces that he's done with adventures. The natives start grinning at something behind him, and the book ends with him being interrupted mid-sentence.

* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]: Twoflower knows Lord Hong has no idea his soldiers killed his wife, and as far as he's concerned that makes it worse.

* [[Butterfly of Doom]]: Repeated theme. The story is ultimately a game played by the gods on Dunmanifestin, and the Quantum Weather Butterfly (known to evade predators by creating small, localized tornados) is how [[Speak of the Devil|The Lady]] enacts her will - by, example, depositing pollen on Hex to make its ants pause to lick it and thus throw off its calculations, or by creating a very small rain shower to wet Rincewind's hat and the tiny addition in weight to make him fall through the earth. One of the covers even has a butterfly on it, to encourage this trope.

** The thing that went "parp" went parp.

** The Dean considers a tyrannical and repressive government an example.

** [[Clue (Tabletop Game)|"I accuse the High Priest of the Green Robe in the library with the double-handed axe"]]

* [[Shrouded in Myth]]