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Very significant in that it introduced the Clacks, breaking the Disc's former tradition of [[Medieval Stasis]] maintained by the [[Reset Button]] (as [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] [[Genre Savvy|by]] [[Genre Shift|Lord]] [[Wrong Genre Savvy|Vetinari]]), and (along with the previous book ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'') began a theme of Uberwald being an important story setting that would continue for several books. |
Very significant in that it introduced the Clacks, breaking the Disc's former tradition of [[Medieval Stasis]] maintained by the [[Reset Button]] (as [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] [[Genre Savvy|by]] [[Genre Shift|Lord]] [[Wrong Genre Savvy|Vetinari]]), and (along with the previous book ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'') began a theme of Uberwald being an important story setting that would continue for several books. |
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== ''The Fifth Elephant'' provides examples of == |
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* [[Above Good and Evil]]: A number of the vampires and werewolves hold to this thinking; Vimes sees it as what people firmly under the Evil category would use as an excuse. |
* [[Above Good and Evil]]: A number of the vampires and werewolves hold to this thinking; Vimes sees it as what people firmly under the Evil category would use as an excuse. |
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* [[Addiction Displacement]]: Lady Margolotta is a "blood teetotaler" who has transferred her lust for blood to a lust for control/politics. And fine tobacco. |
* [[Addiction Displacement]]: Lady Margolotta is a "blood teetotaler" who has transferred her lust for blood to a lust for control/politics. And fine tobacco. |
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