What does Rincewind think right after that one time he casts a spell?
May 10, 2012 4:39 PM Subscribe
QuotationFilter: Rincewind the Wizzard cast a spell that one time (when he was in peril and the eighth spell needed to work through him to fry the cause of the peril with octarine fire) and then Rincewind thought something to the effect that he now understood why most wizards were single and pale (because doing magic was really satisfying and more fun than a normal life, apparently). I can't remember the exact wording, or find it in the books-- do you know? (I want to know because I might feel the same way about engineering.)
Best answer: To the stacks!
posted by restless_nomad at 5:08 PM on May 10, 2012 [6 favorites]
"Magic! So that's what it felt like! No wonder wizards didn't have much truck with sex!(Ellipsis in the original.) Is that what you were thinking of? I wouldn't be surprised if there were more than one such passage, but that's the one after the eighth spell takes a hand.
Rincewind knew what orgasms were, of course, he'd had a few in his time, sometimes even in company, but nothing in his experience even approximated to that tight, hot moment when every nerve in his body streamed with blue-white fire and raw magic had blazed forth from his fingers. It filled you and lifted you and you surfed down the rising, curling wave of elemental force. No wonder wizards fought for power..." - The Light Fantastic, pp 182-183
posted by restless_nomad at 5:08 PM on May 10, 2012 [6 favorites]
Page 176 of light fantastic:
"Magic! So that's what it felt like! No wonder wizards didn't have much truck with sex!
Rincewind knew what orgasms were, of course, he's had a few in his time, sometimes even in company, but nothing in hius experience even approximated to that tight, hot moment when every nerve in his body streamed with blue-white fire and raw magic had blared forth from his fingers. It filled you and lifted you and you surfed down the rising, curling wave of elemental force....
and I'm going to stop typing now since restless_nomad has beaten me to it...
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 5:12 PM on May 10, 2012 [1 favorite]
"Magic! So that's what it felt like! No wonder wizards didn't have much truck with sex!
Rincewind knew what orgasms were, of course, he's had a few in his time, sometimes even in company, but nothing in hius experience even approximated to that tight, hot moment when every nerve in his body streamed with blue-white fire and raw magic had blared forth from his fingers. It filled you and lifted you and you surfed down the rising, curling wave of elemental force....
and I'm going to stop typing now since restless_nomad has beaten me to it...
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 5:12 PM on May 10, 2012 [1 favorite]
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posted by elizardbits at 4:48 PM on May 10, 2012