Talk:Small Gods (novel)
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I love that book. It is so funny and so true about religion and fanatism.
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[edit] Inaccurate quote
The line 'Vorbis could humble himself in a way that made the posturing of power-mad emperors look subservient' does not indicate his humility, it indicates that he is never truly humble ie compared to him complete egomaniacs look humble.
[edit] Trivia Section
I have removed the Trivia section from the article, since the list of names seems to have lost its meaning and is in fact false - I've just thought of at least two more characters mentioned elsewhere in the series (Lu-Tze and the Abbot). Perhaps some mention of the way the book is disjointed from the rest of the series could be made, but the current section was just plain wrong. QmunkE 10:24, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Just looked at the article again, already a discussion about the timeline issues (rubs eyes sleepily...)QmunkE 10:25, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] The timeline thing
It is worth noting, however, that in Carpe Jugulum, a discussion between Omnian priest Mightily Oats and the witch Granny Weatherwax suggests that the events took place several generations ago.
Does it? It read to me as suggesting the exact opposite. Granny compares how she'd react if she'd seen Om to how current Omnians are behaving, suggesting that the current generation is the one who saw Him.
But in any case, Thief makes it clear that there isn't an answer, or possibly that the answer is "both".Daibhid C 00:33, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Small Gods itself has a line that goes "It could drag Omnia kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat!" (referring to the "practical philosophy" practiced by Urn). The phrase turns up again and again in other Discworld books, when it comes to claiming that something needs to modernize and get with the current times (being said century). That seems to place it with the rest of the books, at least it did before we get into the mucky details of the time shatter. I don't think he was changing the joke around there, at least.
Also, all that is irrelevant. Both Small Gods and Reaper Man mention the current year as the Year of the Notional Serpent.
"A sort of codicil or addendum to the life of Windle Poons - born in the year of the Significant Triangle in the Century of the Three Lice ... and died in the year of the Notional Serpent in the Century of the Fruitbat, more or less." - Reaper Man
"It was the Year of the Notional Serpent, or two hundred years after the Declaration of the Prophet Abbys. Which meant that the time of the 8th Prophet was imminent." - Small Gods
The "kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat" bit turns up in Reaper Man as well. --Nerrin 02:09, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
The bit about same notions as in Pyramids doesn't exactly invalidate the Small Gods being in the past, though. The notions and beliefs had been going on for millenia in that area by the time of the events in Pyramids. Any time of which the Omnians could sneer at Pyramids and their animal-headed gods.TLein 12:54, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Making Terry Pratchett a Featured Article
This is a call to arms to make the Terry Pratchett article a Featured Article. It will greatly help the cause if all the side articles that link from it are of a reasonable standard. Terry Pratchett has around 40 side articles (ie the ones relating to his work) - I don't think they are all expected to be GA (Good Article) standard for TP to become featured, but certain basic elements will be looked at for sure.
A full list of the sub articles is here on the TP talk page: I'm posting this comment on the talk pages of each article on the list. Editors reading may also like to help with the TP article too?
The main issue, especially with smaller articles, is often a finding reasonable amount of citations, and prose can sometimes be a little POV too. Coverage of the topic is probably less important, but of course it needs to be reasonably good. --Matt Lewis (talk) 15:19, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
