Rincewind Rincewind, another of Terry Pratchett's Discworld wizards, is a failed student at the Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork, and spends most of his time running away from various people who want to kill him for various reasons. Famous for solving minor problems by turning them into major catastrophes, he is a terrible coward, but always mysteriously seems to come out more or less on top

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