Non.Fiction.The.Science.of.Discworld.I.1992 by Pratchett Terry

Author:Pratchett, Terry [Pratchett, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781407022659
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

1 ‘Reddish-brown’.

2 … which had engrossed wizards for many years. The debate ran like this: it was quite easy to turn someone into a frog, and fairly easy to turn them into, say, a white mouse. Strangely, considering the basic similarity of size and shape, turning someone into an orangutan took a vast amount of power and it was only an explosion in the intense thaumic confines of the Library which had managed the trick. Turning someone into a tree was much, much harder even than that, although turning a pumpkin into a coach was so easy that even a crazy old woman with a wand could do it. Was there some kind of framework into which all this fitted?

The current hypothesis was that most Change spells unravelled the victim’s morphic field down to some very basic level and then ‘bounced’ them back. A frog was quite simple, so they wouldn’t have to bounce far. An ape, being quite human-like in many respects, would mean a very long return journey indeed. You couldn’t turn someone into a tree because there was no way to get there from here, but a pumpkin could be turned into a wooden coach because it was quite close to it in vegetable space.

The wizards agreed that this all seemed to fit nicely, and was therefore true.

If William of Occam had been a wizard at Unseen University, he would have grown a beard.

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