Whilst reading Unseen Academicals I couldn’t help thinking about (and you’ll have to bear with me on this) the American TV series The Wire. The match itself forms the climax of the story, bringing the various strands together. The third strand follows the internal political wranglings of the Unseen University as the wizards venture out of their ivory towers to compete (without magic) in the football match. Nutt turns out to be, not only a natural football trainer, but also a natural leader of men. The second strand follows the story of Mr Nutt, the enigmatic hero of the novel, who turns out to be an orc, a race of violent but misunderstood semi-mythological creatures. The first strand follows the development of the rules and customs of football from the chanting of the fans to the invention of the ball itself. Unseen Academicals is formed from three interlinked plot strands.
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