Ly Tin Wheedle Quotes

The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.

According to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle, chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

According to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle, chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

En algunos de los profundos valles, la luz diurna atrapada del Disco, que es lenta y ligeramente pesada,* se evaporaba como vapor plateado. (...) —- * Prácticamente todo puede moverse a mayor velocidad que la luz del Disco, que es lenta y mansa, a diferencia de la luz corriente. Según el filósofo Ly Tin Wheedle, lo único conocido que se mueve más deprisa que la luz corriente es la monarquía. Llegó a esta conclusión siguiendo este razonamiento: no se puede tener más de un rey, y la tradición exige que no existan intervalos entre un rey y otro, de manera que cuando un rey muere, la sucesión ha de pasar al heredero instantáneamente. Según Wheedle, es probable que existan ciertas partículas elementales, los reiones o tal vez las reionas, que se encargan de cumplir esta función, pero hay que tener en cuenta que a veces la sucesión falla si, en mitad del vuelo chocan con una antipartícula, o republicón. Su ambicioso plan de utilizar este descubrimiento para enviar mensajes, para lo cual hubo que torturar cuidadosamente a un rey menor para poder así modular la señal, jamás llegó a desarrollarse con todo detalle porque, alcanzado este punto, le cerraron el bar.

The astro-philosophers of Krull once succeeded in proving conclusively that all places are one place and that the distance between them is an illusion, and this news was an embarrassment to all thinking philosophers because it did not explain, among other things, signposts. After years of wrangling the whole thing was then turned over to Ly Tin Wheedle, arguably the Disc’s greatest philosopher* who after some thought proclaimed that although it was indeed true that all places were one place, that place was very large.

Practically anything can go faster than Disc light, which is lazy and tame, unlike ordinary light. The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no cap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. presumably, he said, these must be some elementary particles - kingons, or possibly queons - that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plan to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expounded because, at that point, the bar closed.

Según el filósofo Ly Tin Wheedle, lo único conocido que se mueve más deprisa que la luz corriente es la monarquía. Llegó a esta conclusión siguiendo este razonamiento: no se puede tener más de un rey, y la tradición exige que no existan intervalos entre un rey y otro, de manera que cuando un rey muere, la sucesión ha de pasar al heredero instantáneamente.

The astro-philosophers of Krull once succeeded in proving conclusively that all places are one place and that the distance between them is an illusion, and this news was an embarrassment to all thinking philosophers because it did not explain, among other things, signposts. After years of wrangling the whole thing was then turned over to Ly Tin Wheedle, arguably the Disc’s greatest philosopher22, who after some thought proclaimed that although it was indeed true that all places were one place, that place was very large.