It has also come to mean excessively sentimental or cheesy. The ancient animals preserved in fat is reminiscent of the la Brer tarp pits where animals were preserved in hot tar. [1] Someone who uses this type of argument is said to be "attacking a straw man" which Baroness Serafine plans to do against Vimes. a very obvious pun on an Espresso. which Detritus does with great gusto. Überwald is also the traditional home of the Disc's dwarfs who are about to enthrone a new Low King. Vimes can "parallel process" which is Pratchett's take on a male equivalent of the female saw regarding "multi-tasking". We'd love you to buy this book, and hope you find this page convenient in locating a place of purchase. A lot of humans get by on less! He also finds the 'Scone of Stone' (a large piece of dwarf bread the Low King must be crowned on) has been stolen. This page is part of the on-line version of the APF and contains all the annotations for the book "The Fifth Elephant". All the gates to the city have names that are puns. The home region of Angua the Werewolf, Cheery the female Dwarf, and Detrius the Troll. "Laugh this one off" has been used in various forms in many movies and TV shows. The term eventually broadened to mean any useless or worthless thing. "When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky and there is no one to hear it, does it...make a noise?" B'hrian Bloodaxe, is clearly a take off on Brian Boru (c.940-1014) who was the most famous of the Irish High Kings. "An open and shut case, sir" says Cheery after the theft of the Scone of Stone, a play on the concept of the case being solved immediately and the fact that they thieves opened the window and didn't shut the door after they left. Accompanying them as both guard and spy is Inigo Skimmer, a scholarship boy from the Assassins Guild. The Fifth Elephant Chapter 11 "He sounds very well informed for a wolf," said Carrot. Nobby and his Watchmen present the stereotypical image of workers on strike - the long list of demands, the chant "What do we want, when do we want it, etc" the burning barrel to stand around keeping warm. A 'clinker' is the residue left over from burning coal - like cinders - so there is also a Cinderella link. If you want to start a Discworld/TheFifthElephant page, just click the edit button above. The Fifth Elephant 2013 is a three-day workshop and conference on big data, storage and analytics, with product demos and hacker corners. Consequently, Carrot also abandons the Watch and pursues her across the country, enlisting Gaspode to follow her scent. Gaspode felt every hair on his body stand on end. The Baroness Serafine says that Vimes is "...a paper man. He hates the aristocracy in all its forms and appalled to find himself one of them. ), Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch and Duke of Ankh, is sent to the remote region of Überwald as an ambassador to take advantage of the coronation to negotiate with the new Low King on increased imports of fat. He rapidly determines that the dwarfs' system of guard on it is nothing like as secure as the dwarfs think it is and that the Scone could have been stolen in a number of different ways without too much difficulty, but nevertheless later concludes that it was not in fact stolen, but destroyed in situ and its remains concealed by mixing them with the sand on the floor of the cave. tags: discworld, humourous. Here they are "battered to death" a play on deep fried and beaten to death. It means fiery one. Vimes thinks, "It was amazing how the evidence could stack up against you when people wanted it to" a sentiment expressed by everyone wrongfully convicted of a crime. The Fifth Elephant book by Terry Pratchett ReadingRewards: Earn 50 bonus points with an order Science Fiction & Fantasy Books > Fantasy Epics The Fifth Elephant (Discworld Novel) SELECT A BOOKSELLER - DIRECT LINK TO BUY. The scene also has overtones to Nazi experiments during WWII. The Scone of Stone is an obvious reference to the Stone of Scone or Stone of Destiny on which the Scottish stone and later British rulers are crowned. The word 'Untermensch' literally means 'under man' which a dwarf literally is. Early prototypes of the Volkswagen Beetle were in fact known as KdF-Wagen. Agi Hammerthief (the dwarf equivalent of Sweet Fanny Adams) is likely named after the Hammersmith company Agi Solutions. In Pratchett's earlier work, Maskerade which uses the Phantom of the Opera theme, the chandelier doesn't fall - almost as if it has waited for this book to complete its function. in the mid-1980s. They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. Vimes says to Detritus - "Blow the bloody doors off!" In response Corporal Nobby Nobbs sets up the Guild of Watchmen in protest. The Russian word is "toska" -- a sort of weary, faded ennui. The name of the country of Borogravia is a combination of the word "borogrove" from Lewis Carrol's poem The Jabberwocky, with the line "all mimsy were the borogroves" and "Belgravia" a district in west London. In quantum mechanics, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, known as complementary variables, such as position x and momentum p, can be known. The coat of arms of the Unholy Empire is "a double-headed bat." The crowning of the Low Kings has obvious parallels to Britain, Ireland and Scotland before they became nations. Pratchett adds that "[...] he was making headway with the religious instruction of the pigeons." The line, Uberwald remains a mystery inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma.'" Perhaps there is a link to the recent theft of a replica of the Scone in Ankh-Morpork, and the murder of a manufacturer of prophylactics in that city. It's freezing. [1], The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is expanding; there is now a Traffic department with traffic cameras implemented using iconograph technomancy and a wheel clamping team, and the clacks are beginning to replace homing pigeons for communications between officers. Pratchett uses the old saw about the original axe that has had 20 new handles and a dozen new blades as a foil for the Scone of Stone - the original long replaced. In the Round World, the thieves did in fact get away without being caught. Crisp talks of 20 minutes. Detritus's crossbow which fires multiple arrows is called the "Piecemaker" which is a take off on the Colt 45 Army revolver known as the Peacemaker. The Baroness says to Sybil, "If your husband is alive, we can soon do something about it", meaning kill him, not save hims as Sybil is led to believe. Fant means Ghost in French and aille is garlic. Vimes and his dwarf escort cross an underground lake lit with candles which is very reminiscent of the scene in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, The Phantom of the Opera. In Maskerade, Pratchett uses a group called the Cable Street Particulars as a pseudo-police force like the Baker Street Irregulars in Sherlock Holmes mysteries. From there you can navigate to the title you are interested in. The simultaneous absence of both Vimes and Carrot from the city watch requires one of the existing watchmen to be promoted. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the Main namespace are tropes and should be created through the YKTTW system. Are you sure? Captain Tantony's name comes from the term Tantony Pig - the smallest pig in the litter a corruption of St. Anthony the patron saint of swineherds. "Welcome to Civilization" is similar to the Mad Max quote, "Welcome to the Thunderdome". Since 'w' is pronounced 'v' in German and other Eastern European languages, there is a play on the word 'villainous' as well. The novel was nominated for the Locus Award in 2000. The Fifth Elephant. They instigate the apparent theft of the real Scone of Stone from its closely guarded cave, hoping to cause a civil war between traditionalists and progressive dwarfs and isolate the country under the werewolves' feudal leadership. In the opening paragraph, Pratchett says, "They say that elephants, being such huge beasts, have bone of rock and iron, and nerves of gold for better conductivity over long distances:. In parallel processing, the male can think of other more interesting things while they are listening to and carrying on a conversation with their wives. It is undamaged, but they suspect that someone has made a replica of the replica. A sub-plot involves Carrot Ironfoundersson and Gaspode going in search of Carrot's werewolf girlfriend Angua. The town of Scant Cullot" is a play on the French word culotte which is a pair of panties, pants, or knickers. The king gives Vimes an axe for his child which he expects will also have many handles and many blades over the course of its lifetime. Managing to defeat the power-hungry Wolfgang, they are also able to restore the Scone of Stone. Brian Bloodaxe, was the name of a platforms 'n ladders style computer game for the Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, etc. "And I might be the Fairy Clinkerbell" is an obvious reference to Tinkerbell from James Barrie's Peter Pan. The Fifth Elephant book. 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