I don't remember that bit from Light Fantastic, and I've read it four times... eeek.Flibbertigibet wrote: There's a book by Terry Pratchett titled 'The Light Fantastic'. In it, a young wizard tries to flee quickly using seven-league boots, and in his haste he manages to put one foot twenty-one miles in front of the other. You can pretty much guess what happened to him.
Yeah, it was there. A bunch of wizards came after Rincewind for that spell in his head and I forgot what happened but one of them tried to escape with his League boots and cut in half. Look at the footnotes.Sentynel wrote:I don't remember that bit from Light Fantastic, and I've read it four times... eeek.Flibbertigibet wrote: There's a book by Terry Pratchett titled 'The Light Fantastic'. In it, a young wizard tries to flee quickly using seven-league boots, and in his haste he manages to put one foot twenty-one miles in front of the other. You can pretty much guess what happened to him.
Oooh, that bit. I remember now.Flibbertigibet wrote:Yeah, it was there. A bunch of wizards came after Rincewind for that spell in his head and I forgot what happened but one of them tried to escape with his League boots and cut in half. Look at the footnotes.Sentynel wrote:I don't remember that bit from Light Fantastic, and I've read it four times... eeek.Flibbertigibet wrote: There's a book by Terry Pratchett titled 'The Light Fantastic'. In it, a young wizard tries to flee quickly using seven-league boots, and in his haste he manages to put one foot twenty-one miles in front of the other. You can pretty much guess what happened to him.
Besides, that would have been even more horribly painful and embarrassing. If you have to die, would you pick the "die in a blaze of glory" or the "have your body torn in half with your leg lying about a hundred miles away from the rest of you?"Apocrypha wrote: Well, interesting, but Nat was in no state to run, he was weaker from dismissing Barty and well... :mwamba:
Well, in the book I am fairly sure it said they made it from one end to the other end of London in 2 seconds or something.-William Gladstone- wrote: Were they even that fast though? To escape an explosion of that magnitude.
The time taken to think, to start to run would probably be too much to escape the blast wave.
I think thats what it said.Even if it was that fast, most of that time would be getting moving, by which time the explosion would have fried him.Arias'tama wrote:Well, in the book I am fairly sure it said they made it from one end to the other end of London in 2 seconds or something.-William Gladstone- wrote: Were they even that fast though? To escape an explosion of that magnitude.
The time taken to think, to start to run would probably be too much to escape the blast wave.
I'd like if Stroud made another sequel, Kitty main character involving Bart. Then later on Nat is found or something. Hospitale records or something I dunno, He'd think of something. :wub: :wub:
