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(pages 1-45) Friday, 3 March.

Concepts

Universe/Multiverse

Time Scale

Time

Azrael – 1,000,000,000 years

Oureboros (snake who swallows his tail)

Death’s Hall – Not in time

Kronos - clock time

Mayflies - 24 hours

Kairos - subjective time

Counting Pines - thousands of years

reality - who determines what reality is?

Human time (Wizards) - Windle Poons - 130 years

Link to What the #$*! Do We Know!?

personality/personification

identity

Characters

Azrael

Auditors

Death

his manservant Albert

Windle Poons

Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully of Unseen University

(musty) (ridiculous)

Bursar (takes dried frog pills for nerves)

Librarian (an orangutan)

Modo the Dwarf gardener at Unseen University

Reg Shoe - an undead person like Windle Poons

Vocab

sibling - brother, sister

myriad - 10,000 (Greek)

sibilant - hissing

cherub - winged, celestial being

daft - crazy

fiery - be aware of the spelling

beaker - large drinking glass

mausoleum - monument to (a) dead person(s)

en route - on the way

Questions

What is the opposite of a clock?

If death dies, do we/they get a new one?

Project ideas

Scale clock: 1” = 1 sec / 12 years

Model/pen/ink deaths life timer room (scale is important)

for humans (other species have their own rooms).

Scale: Lifetimer assumed is 2"x2"x 4"high;

hall is thirty feet wide and 100 feet high.

Assume a thickness of shelves (glass) of 1/4";

shelves go all the way to the ceiling.

(Death has a rolling ladder to get to the

top shelves.)

Every 100 feet is a floor-to-ceiling leaded-glass

window, three feet wide on each side of the

hall.

Assume a world population of

approximately seven billion people.

Mrs. Widgerey’s Lodger - accordion recording

Sculpt Discworld (it is a disc rotating on the backs of four

elephants which stand on the back of A'Tuin,

the world turtle which swims through space.

Sculpt Death in a funny paper hat for Windle Poons'

Going Away Party (don't forget his robe and cowl).

Symbols

Sign of great trout

Connections

Brass Bridge – Golden Gate Bridge

Bottoms up

Here’s looking at you, kid.” Casablanca (movie)

Lurching (page 49) Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Ankh-Morpork

Ankh – symbol of woman/fertility

Morpork = more pork

Pork barrel legislation

Corrupt salt pork supplied to Washington’s army during Revolutionary War

“Death comes for everything.” Page 43

Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather, 1912/1927 http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-170,pageNum-86.html

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-170,pageNum-4.html

Characters

Sgt Colon

Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler

Modo, Dwarf gardener at Unseen University

Quasimodo, Hunchback of Notre Dame, is half a man; therefore Quasi Modo

Modo, the Dwarf, is not hunchbacked; therefore he is not quasi (Latin – half)

Vocab

Noisome – stinking

Gimlet – a screw-starting tool

http://db.museumsofmayo.com/WebX?230@182.HJr3aKRyI9a.0@.ee87108

Loops in the book . . .

a. Gimlet/eyes – pages 34, 48, 54, 55

b. assembly translated from Japanese into

Dutch by a Korean rice-husker

Guild of Merchants pamphlet p 52

Puns

Hanging around (pg 49)

Glorious turns of phrase

“All this healthy exercise can’t be good for him.” P 38

“In the distance a couple were having the kind of quarrel that causes most of the surrounding streets to open their windows and listen in and make notes.” P 40

“. . . wandered through the streets like a random shot on a pinball table.” P54