Can you tell me how to get back to Roundworld?

[tealin]

Before starting Night Watch this morning (I listened to Les Mis yesterday and there are lilacs busting into bloom all over so it was imperative) I had been reading Carpe Jugulum and was particularly struck by the strong visual impression this scene made on me:

It's Agnes Nitt being taken on a fly by Vlad Magpyr (who does look a bit like a genetic experiment to combine Tom Riddle and Draco Malfoy). I don't know if the sense of space comes across as clearly in pencil lines as it does in the full-colour mental movie complete with a slight BG drift, but ... I try.

11:57 am
If Esme Weatherwax had been the one to go to Shiz instead of Elphaba ... Wicked would be an entirely different story.
And probably a lot more interesting.
[ducks]

Now we sing dis stupid song!
Sing it as we march along!
Why we sing dis we don't know!
We can't make der words rhyme prop'ly!
Sound off! One! Two!
Sound off! Many! Lots!
Sound off! Er ... what?

(Edited to add the end bit and thus discourage further confusion with other rabble-rousing anthems)

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, now I look back I have thrown together the two musical references a bit sloppily. I am not slandering Les Mis at all! It's a fabulous musical, and the line "Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?" is close to my heart as an anthem for someone struggling under the oppression of a certain western state thick with transit connstruction (barricades, see, haha) during high school. The verse at the bottom is the marching song Detritus the troll teaches the new recruits to the Watch ... along the lines of the traditional "I don't know but I've been told..." ditty.

Lord Vetinari is tall, pale, and thin, has black hair, a hooked nose, wears black robes, and seems to always have a vaguely superior expression on his face, so you can kind of see where I get the Snape connection from.

[(Anonymous)]

Imagine what Detritus would have come up with for the motto of the Glorious People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road...

"If I went to Klatch, I'd be really stoopid."
"Detritus, never go to Klatch."