Thoughts about the clock cuckoos in Thief of time
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Could be! It's always hard to try and think what may have been thinking of.
I see it more as an extension of the "Counting Pines". Trees trying to evolve to survive and making an error in believing that, if they showed their age as a physical trait. The failure was in making another reason to be cut down.
The idea of the clocks made by cuckoos may have (in Sir Terry's) mind and the cuckoos were making a desperate attempt to evolve by being useful.
Like I say - it's sometimes impossible to work out what was going on in Terry's head.
I see it more as an extension of the "Counting Pines". Trees trying to evolve to survive and making an error in believing that, if they showed their age as a physical trait. The failure was in making another reason to be cut down.
The idea of the clocks made by cuckoos may have (in Sir Terry's) mind and the cuckoos were making a desperate attempt to evolve by being useful.
Like I say - it's sometimes impossible to work out what was going on in Terry's head.
I thought the explanation might be found somewhere in the L-Space website, but alas, it's not.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was right. Just witness what all the bushes and trees and so forth do on the island in The Last Continent ... or the strange creatures that erupt out of too much belief during Hogfather. (Or all the Small Gods in, well, Small Gods, or the spontaneous creation of Anoia).
In Discworld, words and belief have power. If you're in the Mended Drum and you carelessly say, "I believe I'll have another drink", a pint might mysteriously appear in your hand, and the landlord will instantly appear and your elbow and charge you for it. (Given that the Drum isn't far from UU, this may well happen).
I wouldn't be surprised if this was right. Just witness what all the bushes and trees and so forth do on the island in The Last Continent ... or the strange creatures that erupt out of too much belief during Hogfather. (Or all the Small Gods in, well, Small Gods, or the spontaneous creation of Anoia).
In Discworld, words and belief have power. If you're in the Mended Drum and you carelessly say, "I believe I'll have another drink", a pint might mysteriously appear in your hand, and the landlord will instantly appear and your elbow and charge you for it. (Given that the Drum isn't far from UU, this may well happen).