Detritus is also, rather wonderfully, a genius mathematician - but
only at near absolute-zero temperatures.
Best troll joke in Pratchett is one troll abusing another: "your
mother was an ore!"
There was a conversation on Cybermind a few years ago about whether or
not it was politically sinister that Pratchett manages to generate
quite such a lot of sympathy for Vetinari.
Dominic
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