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...or unwisely curious students to find, for example, the Lost Reading Room. One such expedition headed by 'Bogeyboy' Swallatt got lost in the maze of shelv ...n. A full array of possible futures are implied by the books collected in one place. The Unseen University's Library is obviously magical in the layman' ...

Before the universe began, there was a sound. It went: "One, two, ONE, two, three, four..." ...p>. After a while, he came to a [[Mister Safe Way|crossroads]]. Finding no one there, he took the road more travelled and came to [[Ankh-Morpork]]. ...

* A washed pot never boils. (This one was related by way of a Yeti, so it may be garbled by a mild speech impedim ...unto you. (Koan 97) (Lu-Tze mentions uncertainty about having gotten this one right) ...

...arly in the book, Death seems to want to Mort and Ysabell to fall in love (one almost wonders if that's the ''real'' job Death wanted Mort for), but he se * "Twenty-one the hard way!" - probably 3 7's. In Roundworld craps, the "hard way" is whe ...

...anonymity undesirable and feels it is necessary to remind people of [[Rule One]]. While he claims the position of a sweeper, he is widely respected by man *No Kando ('You made that one up'). ...

...According to [[Lord Vetinari]], the goal of the game should be to discover one's own weaknesses. [[Mr Shine]] hopes that encouraging Dwarfs and Trolls to ...in any direction, including diagonals. The trolls, however, can only move one square in any direction. ...

*[[TV and Film:Hogfather|''Hogfather'']], aired by Sky One, Christmas 2006 [http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article344232.ece as T *[[TV and Film:The Colour of Magic|''The Colour of Magic'']], aired by Sky One, Easter 2008 as TV film. ...

...unction. A [[Unseen University|school for wizards]]- that works. It was no-one’s idea ''per se'', but it captures the imagination, and is good to use in ...hools'. Some of them are pre-Unseen University, too. It doesn't matter. No one is stealing from anyone. It's a shared heritage." ...

On revolutionaries and footwear:- one of the great leaders of the Mexican revolution was called '''''Zapata'''''[ ''Renata Flitworth'' - such a patently bleedin' obvious one I never saw it till now... the Dickens character in ''Great Expectation'' w ...

...Can I suggest [[Book:Guards! Guards!|Guards! Guards!]] as a candidate? for one thing, it seems to be a rare "completed" book page with no red links leadin :Since no one ever pays any attention to it anyway, should we change the heading to sugge ...

...r relationship, it is entirely possible that "Dog-botherer", together with one or two other indignities inflicted at school, hangs unspoken in the air bet Downey is a highly skilled poisoner, and it is apparently very unwise to try one of his almond slices. He contributed his recipe for mint humbugs to {{NOC}} ...

...ry]], went missing while taking a tooth to a criminal [[Banjo Lilywhite]] (one of Teatime's assistants). In Death's library, her biography shows she is be ...ed [[Bergholt Stuttley Johnson]]. He re-seals it after two near accidents, one involving a tap marked {{wp|Old Faithful|Old Faithful}}, and a worse proble ...

...nd it broke under the strain, freeing Time and causing the inventor to age one thousand years, according to the legend in any case... ...of asking him in the guise of a beautiful woman, [[Myria LeJean]] who was one of them disguised as a human. ...

...mstick|broom]] could remain airborne if you pulled out the bristles one by one whilst in flight. According to the [[Quoth|raven]] she had trained to act a ...peeled with a two inch paring knife no wider than half an inch, the loved one's name will invariably be SCSSSC. ...

...f conduct and decorum that have operated in the Empire since the time of [[One Sun Mirror]]. ...h remains on his person at all times. In conditions of deepest secrecy and one item at a time, he has assembled a wardrobe of what he fondly considers to ...

One of the more powerful [[gods]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]. (On ...s|Small Gods]]'', despite having a huge empire of worshippers, he only has one true believer, [[Brutha]]. ...

...s also the location of the [[Quirm College for Young Ladies]], and as such one of the minor settings in ''[[Book:Soul Music|Soul Music]]''. The college ha ...} that [[Quirm]] has a full-fledged [[Quirm Zoo|City Zoo]], which makes it one step ahead of [[Ankh-Morpork]] in this respect. [[Sam Vimes]] takes [[Young ...

...e of improvement. The scion of some great Ankh family might come and carry one off to his mansion, but while the general peripheries of marriage might be ...strict" (formerly and rather more accurately known as 'The Whore Pits') is one of the city's great tourist attractions. ...

...city. Vimes also began a romantic relationship with [[Lady Sybil Ramkin]], one of the wealthiest women in the city. ...but also his wife and his fourteen-months-old son, using flamethrowers. On one side, there is Vimes, however rough and pessimistic he may seem, defender o ...

...{wp|Anchorite|anchorite}}, best described as a hermit and one-way prophet: one-way in that whereas many prophets retreat to the desert, receive revelation St. Ungulant is not actually a saint, but someone pointed out the obvious one day, since his full name is Sevrian Thaddeus Ungulant. He resides in the de ...