Terry Pratchett shares my fascination with James
Bond movies! On p. 80 of Night Watch, the Monk
Lu-Tze went to Qu, the “Order’s Master of Devices”
who directed explosions in a “vined-off area”, took
the “technology of Procrastinators, to save and re-
store time, to blow people’s heads off” while
Brother Kai was blown two centuries back
Who built a temporal toilet discharging ten million
years into the past where all ends in a volcano, very
hygienic; who has tambourines banging to set off
explosions, and the time shift in which Sam Vines
split into John Keel and a younger self is speculated
about as “Narrative Causality or Historical
Imperative or self-correcting history…”
The little monk Lu-Tze is only one of many Bond-
representatives, Sam Vines himself is another
kind of Bond, while the Abbot and Lord Vetinari
are both representatives of M, the head of the
English Secret Service in the Bond-movies
though I fail to discern the main Bond-girl,
there is Rosie Palmer and Sandra the
smuggler…
Pages 80-82 "Night Watch" Pratchett
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