pg 78
Pratchett continues to have fun with cliches regarding tourists.
"Picturesque. That was a new word to Rincewind, the wizard (BMgc, Unseen University [failed]). It was one of a number he had picked up since leaving the charred ruins of Anhk-Morpork. Quaint was another one. Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenery that inspired Twoflower to use the world - that the landscape was horribly precipitous.
Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumble-down.
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant idiot.
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