Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett.
HarperCollins Publishers: NY, 2009.
Ultra-Condensed
- Oh, the Megapode!
- The Emperor - the candle that never goes out
- Archchancellory rivalry
- Romeo and Juliet of football fans, plus Cinderella, with a tad of Cyrano
- Boundary lines made by crowd pushing and shoving, and the goals are movable by fans.
- The watcher who scores and breaks the goal post
- Inspiration for painting Beauty Arising from the Pease Pudding Cart Attended by Cherubs Carrying Hot Dogs and Pies
- The Librarian takes an interest in Nutt.
- Another near Death experience
- "It was hard to argue with a man who insisted that he was not dead."
- Nutt performs self-hypnosis.
- "I do have some heads on ice if anyone wants to experiment."
- Ponder Stibbons - more than 50% of the University Council
- The game of foot-the-ball comes out of the streets to be revamped by the authorities, Lord Vetinari and the wizards of UU. It now has rules instead of being a big shove match.
- Rule 202 - replacement of the ball
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