homesickness , the little elastic band in the subconscious that can wind up a salmon and propel it three thousand miles through strange seas , or send a million lemmings running joyfully back to an ancestral homeland which , owing to a slight kink in the continental drift , is n't there any more - homesickness rose up inside rincewind like a late-night prawn biriani , flowed along the tenuous thread linking his tortured soul to his body , dug its heels in and tugged ...