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So, after extensive and in-depth discussion with Ultima, this quote screams Transduality on a platonic level. Basically, the quote speaks about achieving a state of being in which you can be everything while also being nothing, referring to this as "Zen". Once you achieve this state of being, you cast off all other requirements and... frankly, it's used a lot in-text to prove that the characters can basically do whatever they want. Even beings like Azrael don't step in to get them, even when it's implied he should have (for example, when he sent Death to Samuel Vimes in Thud! yet Samuel didn't die).
| Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you. Sir? It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority. Sir? That's practically Zen.'' | ||
~ Vetinari to Samuel Vimes, Feet of Clay |
