The Last Continent

• Rincewind
• Scrappy kangaroo
• Mustrum Ridcully (Archchancellor of the Unseen University)
• Ponder Stibbons
• Dean
• Bursar
• Senior Wrangler
• Chair of Indefinite Studies
• Lecturer in Recent Runes
• Mrs Whitlow
• Professor of Recondite Architecture and Origami Map Folding
• Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography
• The Librarian (orang-utan)

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All tribal myths are true, for a given value of ‘true’.

We might find out why mankind is here, although that is more complicated and begs the question ‘Where else should we be?’

‘How hard can it be to build a boat?’ he said. ‘People with bones in their noses build boats. And we are the end product of thousands of years of enlightenment. Building a boat is not beyond men like us, Senior Wrangler’
‘Quite, Dean.’
‘All we have to do is search this island until we find a book with a title like Practical Boat-Building for Beginners.’

[A huge monster evolves into a chicken just in front of Ridcully and Ponder]
‘You saw how quickly it changed, didn't you?’
‘Well?’
‘That can't be natural’
‘You're the one who says things naturally change into other things...’
‘But not that fast!’
‘Have you ever seen any of this evolution happening?’
‘Well, of course not, no one has ever—’
‘There you are then. That may be the normal speed.’

The possibility of not getting back never entered her head.
A lot of things never entered Mrs Whitlow's head.

In Mrs Whitlow's book, gods were socially very acceptable, at least if they had proper human heads and wore clothes.