How we cite our quotes: (Story.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"Well, my point is, you see, that gold also has its sort of magical field. Sort of financial wizardry. Echo-gnomics."
Rincewind giggled. (1.27.8-9)
We return to the novel's satire on the value society places on gold, and then enlarge the satire's target to include economics. It's literally just a numbers game, people, smoke and mirrors and no real substance.
Quote #8
[The throne] was rightfully hers, of course; but tradition said that only a man could rule the Wyrmberg. That irked Liessa, and when she was angry the Power flowed stronger and the dragons were especially big and ugly. (3.6.1)
Yes, Liessa did kill her father, but that's the way of succession in Wyrmberg. She's also the most qualified for the position. That she can't become queen without marrying a strapping man suggests the blindness of unquestioned gender politics.
Quote #9
"Oh," [Hrun] said, "I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the alter and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure." Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the ceiling, whistling tunelessly. "All that?" said Twoflower. "Usually." (3.12.19-21)
Again we find the idea that what's normal for one society will often be vastly different from the norm of another. In this case, Hrun's nine-to-five job is a little different from what Twoflower considers typical, and certainly distinct from the computer-shackled employment we think of as average.