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Thief of Time [U.S. hardcover p 122]:

• "Master and pupil go out into the world, where the pupil may pick up practical instruction by precept and example, and then the pupil finds his own Way and at the end of his Way -"

"-he finds himself bdum", said the abbot.

Foreshadowing that probably won't be noticed until a second reading of the book.

• Ronnie's constant reference to being the 'Fifth Horseman' is similar to various people's claims to being the 'Fifth Beatle'.

• "Pleased to meet you," he said. "Let me guess your name." --Likely a reference to the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil".

• the book of tobrun has not been considered official church dogma for a hundred years.

Death's statement to the angel seem to confirm that the events of Small Gods occurred well before the rest of the novels. Susan's realisation that the philosophers of Ephebe seem to live a very long time helps to remove the last of the objections to this revised timeline.

Ronnie Soak, mild-mannered milkman turns out to be the "Fifth Horseman" of the Apocalypse, Kaos. Kaos is Soak spelled backward.

Doubleday hardcover pp239 - 40: see annotation for the early chapters of The Wee Free Men, noting the similarities between the dream-like surrealist logic of the scene, and the writings of Irish childrens' author Pat O'Shea. The logic of the scene where Myriad LeJean exploits the orderly minds of fellow Auditors with deliberately nonsensical and self-contradictory signs reflects the bizarre, slightly dream-like, Irish faeryscape O'Shea creates - right down to the same sort of in-line text drawings that punctuate her text.

Check out The Hounds of the Morrigan, particularly the Swapping Fair scenes, to see what I mean here...--AgProv 13:26, 23 July 2008 (UTC)