Pyramids: A Discworld Novel: 7

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Senior Year Struggles: The last year at the Assassins' School (Upper Sixth, analogous to real-world senior year) in Ankh-Morpork is literally a matter of life and death, as the Final Exam involves a very real threat of flunking out - terminally — if they fail the exam. The fabric of space-time is a conceptual model combining the three dimensions of space with the fourth dimension of time. Albert Einstein helped develop the idea of space-time as part of his theory of relativity. According to the best of current physical theories, space-time explains the unusual relativistic effects that arise from traveling near the speed of light as well as the motion of massive objects in the universe. It is therefore not surprising that lines like, ‘the fabric of time and space was torn asunder’ are common ones throughout science fiction writing, good and bad. Embarrassing Tattoo: Alfonz has depictions of sex positions tattooed on his arms, some of which are physically impossible. After Ptraci takes a keen interest in them he decides it would be best if he wore a long-sleeved shirt.

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Poison Ring: One of Pteppic's teachers at the Assassins' school, Lady T'Malia, wears a lot of these; students sometimes have to be advised not to try kissing her ring as a greeting. He shrugged. It might be, for all he knew. “The point is, though, that everyone can do it. They’re very proud of it. Everyone has—” he hesitated again, certain now that things were amiss—“the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extractions. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lost of other people. But everyone apart from them. It’s a very enlightened civilization.” Ptaclusp I, Ptaclusp IIa and Ptaclusp IIb, the pyramid-building dynasty tasked with the construction of the Great Pyramid Beast Man: The many animal-headed gods of the Djel. This becomes a lot more apparent when they manifest, and the human parts "slough off", leaving a vaguely human animal with little brains and a bad temper. There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Meaningful Name: "'The trouble with you, Ibid,' […], 'is that you think you're the biggest bloody authority on everything.'" Paper People: IIa becomes flat and drifts continuously to the right as a result of the pyramid switching his dimensions. O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After being unflattened IIa shows no interest in the cost of the new bridges, which initially worries Ptaclusp. However, it turns out that he's just preoccupied with the royal finances.

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Pyramids is Sir Terry Pratchett’s 7th Discworld book and the Pratchett Smile-O-Meter is dancing happily as this is another fun ride with cool Uncle Terry.For those of you hoping to encounter one of your favorite Discworld characters, choose another book... unless you're happy with a minor guest appearance from Death. Terry Pratchett – Pyramids Audiobook (Discworld Book 7) Terry Pratchett – Pyramids Audiobook https://ipaudio.club/wp-content/uploads/GOLN/Pyramids/01.mp3 https://ipaudio.club/wp-content/uploads/GOLN/Pyramids/02.mp3 https://ipaudio.club/wp-content/uploads/GOLN/Pyramids/03.mp3 https://ipaudio.club/wp-content/uploads/GOLN/Pyramids/04.mp3 https://ipaudio.club/wp-content/uploads/GOLN/Pyramids/05.mp3 https://ipaudio.club/wp-content/uploads/GOLN/Pyramids/06.mp3 https://ipaudio.club/wp-content/uploads/GOLN/Pyramids/07.mp3 https://ipaudio.club/wp-content/uploads/GOLN/Pyramids/08.mp3 https://ipaudio.club/wp-content/uploads/GOLN/Pyramids/09.mp3 The side characters are all well formed. I loved Teppicymon when he was a ghost commenting how silly all the pyramid nonsense was. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle says that for a quantum particle (e. g. an electron), it is impossible to know with complete accuracy both where it is and how fast it is going. The act of observing it interferes with the event you want to measure (one might say that at the quantum level the observation is the event) in such a way that it is physically impossible to determine both velocity and position of the particle in question.