Nope, that's basically it. You get geometry AND social commentary all in one go!

But what if you failed geometry? (Naming no names)

Well, if you know a square is a square, and a line is a line, you shouldn't have any problems.

SHAME!

It's the triangles that get me.

Well, it's a free download so how could it hurt?

Triangles are nice. I've long said that there's a shortage of triangles in modern life. The square won the geometry war and noone even noticed. Look around you... almost no triangles!

I have a corner desk for my computer, but it's a trapezoid...

But that's only in three dimensional flat space.

Let's hear it for conic sections in curved space, with four or more dimensions if your budget stretches that far.

Yikes!

At one point I made office furniture and the company didn't make triangular tables of any description, trapezoid tables tended to be sent in enough to make a sort of circle of them.

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Blood! Death! War! Rumpy pumpy! Triumph!

I suspect a conspiracy. Triangles are incredibly under represented in everyday life.

Paranoia? Yes! Intrigue? YES! Waffles? YES PLEASE!

Getting the feeling I'm the only one that's read SPACELAND-
started to wonder if I'd imagined it but found it with my copies of all the other -LAND books...

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Wait--there's a Spaceland???

[A book, I mean, not an actual dimension. We know that exists!]

Indeed there is. It's written by someone called Rudy Rucker and that's about all I know.

MartinB said
Of course, no one says that the Discworld books are internally consistent....

Blame it on the History Monks.


The Patrician is not named in Com or LF. He is named as Vetinari in Sourcery and undergoes a transformation into a lizard.
This could well explain the changes in the Patrician's appearance and temperament.

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There is no evidence that he is different then though, since he spends most of it as a lizard. And his younger self seems very much like his older Patrician self, so I find that unlikely.

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