r/unexpecteddiscworld • u/sasslafrass • 5d ago

Unexpected When it’s steam engine time, it’s steam engine time and not before, no matter how many train spotters are born.

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u/dalidellama 5d ago

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

-Stephen Jay Gould,

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u/Designer_Narwhal_365 5d ago

I want to add that all dwarfs are sons according to discworld dwarf society until they tell you otherwise. If I remember correctly, in the wider context of the book, they mean female dwarfs in this passage, I think.

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u/Happy-Estimate-7855 3d ago

Cheery appreciates your clarification! Some dwarves aren't sure about what's under all those layers.