{"id":5490,"date":"2016-04-30T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T20:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2016-04-30T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T20:56:20","slug":"witches-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=5490","title":{"rendered":"Witches Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/513Bs4HYbmL.jpg\" alt=\"513Bs4HYbmL\" width=\"279\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/513Bs4HYbmL.jpg 279w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/513Bs4HYbmL-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/>I seem to be reading more lately? I dunno. House is more unpacked than not, and things that are left to do, I cannot really progress on without outside interference. Either way, I&#8217;ve also been reading more of\u00a0the partial series I have scattered all over the map, instead of new stuff. In a way that&#8217;s good, because progress, in a way it&#8217;s bad because there&#8217;s so many things I still have no idea about even though they&#8217;ve been talked about lately. That is the problem of lacking infinite free time, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>So I read another Pratchett. In <a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Witches-Abroad-Discworld-Terry-Pratchett\/dp\/0062237365\/\">Witches Abroad<\/a>, he studies the nature of fairy tales, mirrors, and family relationships[1]. Mostly the nature of fairy tales, though the characters say it&#8217;s the nature of stories. That said, the characters are analogues for the Fates, so any story they&#8217;d be in would have fairy tale elements nearly by definition. See, this one fairy godmother (only distinguishable from any other witch, so far as I can tell, by her possession of a magic wand) died prior to handling all her affairs, so she sets the witches from <a title=\"My review of Wyrd Sisters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=419\">Wyrd Sisters<\/a>[2] on a quest to wrap things up. So they head off to Genua, which is to say New Orleans, and proceed about their appointed tasks.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m very near the threshold where these books are basically always of high quality, so it&#8217;s nice to be able to say that yep, this one was really quite good, very funny throughout and with the characters who are currently my favorites. Yay, Discworld!<\/p>\n<p>[1] The last one is a bit of a stretch, in that it&#8217;s not untrue but also in that most of these books have been about family to some degree, especially if you accept &#8220;the family you choose&#8221; as fitting the paradigm.<br \/>\n[2] Who I suppose will be henceforth known as the witches in any of the Discworld &#8220;witches&#8221; books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be reading more lately? I dunno. House is more unpacked than not, and things that are left to do, I cannot really progress on without outside interference. Either way, I&#8217;ve also been reading more of\u00a0the partial series I have scattered all over the map, instead of new stuff. In a way that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[689,106,947],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-discworld","tag-fantasy","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5512,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/5512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}