The Colour of Magic: Difference between revisions

* [[Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist]]: Figures rather prominently.

* [[I Like Those Odds]]: Hrun the Barbarian declares he'll fight both dragonlords at once:

'''Hrun''': Yah. I outnumber you one to two. }}

* [[Inadequate Inheritor]]

* [[Speak of the Devil]]: Bel-Sh*mh*roth, the Sender of [6+2]. Inverted with The Lady, the goddess who only aids those who never invoke her, and speaking her name makes her flee away... {{spoiler|who, in case you haven't guessed, is Lady Luck}}.

** The Bel-Shamharoth example is subject to an [[Overly Long Gag]] of Rincewind dancing around the number:

''' ''[[Oh Crap|EIGHT, Hate, eight, eight, eight]]...'' ''' }}

* [[Title Drop]]: "It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple."