![]() ![]() He had in fact been raised to be a Fool, a man whose job it was to caper and tell jokes and have custard poured down his trousers. Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. (LL)Īlso, there’s a certain glint in her eye generally possessed by those people who have found that they are more intelligent than most people around them but who haven’t yet learned that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out. *Gods like a joke as much as anyone else. They are interesting, not for what they tell you about cosmology, but for what they say about people. Other theories about the ultimate start involve gods creating the universe out of the ribs, entrails and testicles of their father.* There are quite a lot of these. ![]() In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before. The point is, there is always something before. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired* – but that’s not the start. ![]()
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