http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Life-timer&feed=atom&action=historyLife-timer - Revision history2024-03-29T15:23:42ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.0http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Life-timer&diff=19071&oldid=prevOld Dickens at 04:58, 9 February 20142014-02-09T04:58:24Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Rincewind's life-timer is described as resembling something created by a glassblower with the hiccups in a time machine, due to his being hit by so much magic and being forcefully shuttled through time and space so many times. Based on the amount of sand, Rincewind should have died long ago, but the shape of it is such that the sand often flows backwards or diagonally, with the result being that even Death has no idea when Rincewind will die. This represents something of a curiosity to Death, who keeps the hour-glass on his desk as a paperweight so he can keep an eye on it. [[Albert]]'s life-timer is unique. Mugged on a rare visit back to the living world and [[Ankh-Morpork]], his official life-timer - which he insisted on keeping himself - got broken. The Death of Rats collected maybe ninteen seconds worth of life from the wreck, and this is now stored in a beer-bottle. Technically, Albert is not immortal. but those nineteen seconds, unless interrupted, will go on for ever. They say time is elastic...</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Rincewind|</ins>Rincewind's<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>life-timer is described as resembling something created by a glassblower with the hiccups in a time machine, due to his being hit by so much magic and being forcefully shuttled through time and space so many times. Based on the amount of sand, Rincewind should have died long ago, but the shape of it is such that the sand often flows backwards or diagonally, with the result being that even Death has no idea when Rincewind will die. This represents something of a curiosity to Death, who keeps the hour-glass on his desk as a paperweight so he can keep an eye on it. [[Albert]]'s life-timer is unique. Mugged on a rare visit back to the living world and [[Ankh-Morpork]], his official life-timer - which he insisted on keeping himself - got broken. The Death of Rats collected maybe ninteen seconds worth of life from the wreck, and this is now stored in a beer-bottle. Technically, Albert is not immortal. but those nineteen seconds, unless interrupted, will go on for ever. They say time is elastic...</div></td></tr>
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</table>AgProvhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Life-timer&diff=9050&oldid=prevAnonymous at 18:15, 17 December 20122012-12-17T18:15:39Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Rincewind's life-timer is described as resembling something created by a glassblower with the hiccups in a time machine, due to his being hit by so much magic and being forcefully shuttled through time and space so many times. Based on the amount of sand, Rincewind should have died long ago, but the shape of it is such that the sand often flows backwards or diagonally, with the result being that even Death has no idea when Rincewind will die. This represents something of a curiosity to Death, who keeps the hour-glass on his desk as a paperweight so he can keep an eye on it. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perhaps Death, confused by Rincewind´s timer, will not `reap` him at the right moment?</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Rincewind's life-timer is described as resembling something created by a glassblower with the hiccups in a time machine, due to his being hit by so much magic and being forcefully shuttled through time and space so many times. Based on the amount of sand, Rincewind should have died long ago, but the shape of it is such that the sand often flows backwards or diagonally, with the result being that even Death has no idea when Rincewind will die. This represents something of a curiosity to Death, who keeps the hour-glass on his desk as a paperweight so he can keep an eye on it.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Nanny Ogg]] also has a unique life-timer. Given as payment for delivering the sons of [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]], it contains a day's worth of time and has ''Tempus Redux'' (Time returned) written on it. That might come in handy...</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Nanny Ogg]] also has a unique life-timer. Given as payment for delivering the sons of [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]], it contains a day's worth of time and has ''Tempus Redux'' (Time returned) written on it. That might come in handy...</div></td></tr>
</table>Anonymoushttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Life-timer&diff=9049&oldid=prevAnonymous at 18:14, 17 December 20122012-12-17T18:14:51Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Rincewind's life-timer is described as resembling something created by a glassblower with the hiccups in a time machine, due to his being hit by so much magic and being forcefully shuttled through time and space so many times. Based on the amount of sand, Rincewind should have died long ago, but the shape of it is such that the sand often flows backwards or diagonally, with the result being that even Death has no idea when Rincewind will die. This represents something of a curiosity to Death, who keeps the hour-glass on his desk as a paperweight so he can keep an eye on it.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Rincewind's life-timer is described as resembling something created by a glassblower with the hiccups in a time machine, due to his being hit by so much magic and being forcefully shuttled through time and space so many times. Based on the amount of sand, Rincewind should have died long ago, but the shape of it is such that the sand often flows backwards or diagonally, with the result being that even Death has no idea when Rincewind will die. This represents something of a curiosity to Death, who keeps the hour-glass on his desk as a paperweight so he can keep an eye on it. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perhaps Death, confused by Rincewind´s timer, will not `reap` him at the right moment?</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Nanny Ogg]] also has a unique life-timer. Given as payment for delivering the sons of [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]], it contains a day's worth of time and has ''Tempus Redux'' (Time returned) written on it. That might come in handy...</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Nanny Ogg]] also has a unique life-timer. Given as payment for delivering the sons of [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]], it contains a day's worth of time and has ''Tempus Redux'' (Time returned) written on it. That might come in handy...</div></td></tr>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Every creature or entity with a finite lifespan has one. As the only true immortal is [[Death]] (who has a stylish black life-timer completely empty of sand) this means that the shelves in Death's Domain are groaning with life-timers for everything else.<br />
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Most mortal beings have the standard-issue egg-timer look-alike, through which the sand only pours one way regardless of whether or not it is upended. People can apparently judge how much life they have left from seeing their timers, since when Death arrives for Renata Flitworth in Reaper Man she tells him she knows why he's there - 'I saw how much sand was in that timer'. ([[Death]] himself received a golden life-timer as an ironic parting gift when "retired" by the [[Auditors]]. This is analogous to the famed gold watch given to the Roundworld retiree who has spent all his working life in the same job.) <br />
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However, a carefully hidden Special Room houses what might be called the VIP lounge. The selection here covers [[Gods]], [[Demons|demons]] and [[Anthropomorphic personification|anthropomorphic personifications]]. In pride of place is a VERY large life-timer which has a delicately engraved turtle on the glass. This hidden room is not kept as secure as it should be. [[Susan Sto Helit|Susan]] discovered to her horror that [[cats]] had got in there (a situation possibly engineered by [[Jonathan Teatime|Mr Teatime]]?) and the floor was covered in shards of broken glass which turned out to be from the [[Hogfather]]'s life-timer. Subsequent events are recounted in {{H}}.<br />
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For creatures whose existence is powered by belief, such as the Hogfather, the amount of sand in their life-timer reflects the belief the inhabitants of the Disc have in them. When Death breaks the Hogfather's life-timer, it prevents him from dying as the 'maybe' can no longer flow into the 'was', keeping his level of belief in stasis and allowing Death to fill his role.<br />
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Some interesting life-timers include that of [[Scraps]], [[Igor#Igor at Don'tgonearthe Castle, Überwald|Igor]]'s dog in {{CJ}}. It's misshapen and bumpy, presumably indicating the dog's artificial life-extensions. Igors probably also have similar life-timers, because they are also made up of "spare parts".<br />
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Rincewind's life-timer is described as resembling something created by a glassblower with the hiccups in a time machine, due to his being hit by so much magic and being forcefully shuttled through time and space so many times. Based on the amount of sand, Rincewind should have died long ago, but the shape of it is such that the sand often flows backwards or diagonally, with the result being that even Death has no idea when Rincewind will die. This represents something of a curiosity to Death, who keeps the hour-glass on his desk as a paperweight so he can keep an eye on it.<br />
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[[Nanny Ogg]] also has a unique life-timer. Given as payment for delivering the sons of [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]], it contains a day's worth of time and has ''Tempus Redux'' (Time returned) written on it. That might come in handy...<br />
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