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Subject: Yet Another Witches Abroad Annotation
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In article <1992Dec17.113150.11553@aston.ac.uk> barretpj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Phil J Barrett) writes:
>OK, found it now. One more WA annotation - not particularly Earth-shattering,
>but maybe worthy of inclusion.

And a couple of further obvious trivia from Witches Abroad:

p.228   "Colonel Moutarde" is French for "Colonel Mustard", the name of
        one of the players cum characters in the board game "Cluedo".

p.235   "Nanny Ogg's voyages ... had gone rather further than twice
        round the lighthouse ...".

        A popular way of staving off boredom at typical British seaside
        holiday resorts is to take a trip in a small boat, which will
        often journey out as far as the local lighthouse (navigational
        beacon, for you inland Merkins :-)) and circumnavigate it. Hence
        the above colloquialism, implying that her experiences were not
        limited to the inshore waters of male/female relationships :-)

Nick.
From: bruce@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Bruce Stephens)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Flying Things perform Mort
Date: 18 Dec 92 12:09:45 GMT
Organization: Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Univ. Liverpool, UK

>>>>> On 15 Dec 92 18:42:00 GMT, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) said:

> What's this.  Flying Thing are using FOUR actors now?  It was only three when
> I saw them! (Mind you, they didn't half have to work hard...

Yep.  Looked like four to me.  (Or was it?  Certainly _seemed_ like
lots of people.  If I come across the program I'll give a definitive
answer.)
--
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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: TP is OZ
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:11:12 GMT

In <1992Dec10.125239.9900@vela.acs.oakland.edu> mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( ) writes:

>Sydney might have smog, but Detroit has ambience.  Flavor.  *Style.*

Flavour.  Colour.  Preservatives added.
Car manufacturers.  A short leap to Canada if you get sick of the
American Way. . .  

Quetzal *is* an American name, after all.
From: cpm00@ras.amdahl.com (Craig P McLaughlin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies annotations
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:15:38 GMT

Nick Leverton writes:
|> Have we had any "Lords and Ladies" annotations yet ? If so, I must have
|> 'n'exted past them before I bought the book ...
|>
  [annotations removed -- except...]
 
|> p222: The sleeping king and his warriors who will awake at the End of
|>       Things when a wolf eats the sun - this rings a bell (sorry :-))
|>       but for the life of me I can't place it! Is it, perhaps,
|>       Charlemagne ? Or Arthur ? But I thought Arthur sleeps alone, and
|>       the wolf sounds Nordic not Carolingian ...
|>

Arthur sleeps alone (interesting wording there! -- is Gwen with Lancelot
tonight? :) ), awaiting "Britain's greatest need."  I'm not aware of any
sleeping kings and wolves, but it sure sounds an awful lot like the Nordic
legend of Ragnarok...

If so, then the 'king' would be Odin, leader of the gods, and the wolf would
be Fenris, offspring of Loki and a giantess.  

:)  I won't tell you how it ends, but read it -- it's a great story.
 
|> 
|> There's nothing else that springs to my mind, so I suppose I'd better
|> get this book wrapped up and posted now! {{{J}}}
|> 
|> Nick


Sigh... still waiting for many books to arrive here in the States...
--Craig

Craig McLaughlin  /  cpm00@ras.amdahl.com
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From: barretpj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Phil J Barrett)
Subject: Re: Another Witches Abroad Annotation
Organization: Aston University
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 11:31:50 GMT

OK, found it now. One more WA annotation - not particularly Earth-shattering,
but maybe worthy of inclusion.

p30 (UK Paperback), "You can't get the wood" - this was Henry Crun's
excuse for not actually building anything he'd invented, in the Goon Show.

Phil
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Subject: SwanCon
From: laurie@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Laurie Fleming)
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 03:59:40 GMT
Distribution: aus
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ

Can anyone who is involved in the organising of the above event
please send us some info on what's going on? We'd be much obliged.
eMail, or snail-mail to
 
Laurie and Annette,
54 Khandallah Rd,
Ngaio,
Wellington 4,
New Zealand.

We really want to get there - this time I really *will* buy Terry his
banana dacquiri.
(-8
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From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: A'Tuin is Male...?
Date: 16 Dec 92 22:27:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

>
>Counter thought....
>
>Didn't SHE go to watch her eggs hatch (or lay here eggs or something which
>slips my mind just at the moment...) in The Light Fantastic????
>
>Only female turtles lay eggs as far as I know...
>
>Paul

well, I can't think of any definitive evidence for male turtles
watching the eggs. Male crocodiles go back and break open the
eggs for the juveniles to escape. Turtle eggs are abandoned and
are left to hatch on their own : mortality is like 95% before
they even reach the sea.....

So the point of this all is that I don't know anything about
astrochelonians ..... maybe they're asexual .... ?

Simon
From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP is OZ
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:32:28 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
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jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner) writes:

>Regarding the advocacy of melbourne among other Australian cities:
>Terry has obviously been to melbourne already. Where else could he
>have gotten his ideas about the river at Ankh-Morpork except from the
>Yarra. (Oozing not flowing, Purified by so many kidneys, etc.)

If Ankh Morpork had an alchimist industry, I'd say it's the Rhine.
Although the lack of sewage-works would be enough, I guess.


May the Stool Be with It!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
"Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten, dass ich so tra-haurig bin?"
From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: sydney vs MELBOURNE vs tasmania
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:03:26 GMT
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rmv@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Robin Vickery) writes:

>Terry, give up, go to NZ instead.

Why should He go to a country where they don't even know how to spell
"sea?"  :-)


Mey the Kool Bee with Yoo!

(C)OOL ncnxcii
From: cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Full list of TPs books..
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:30:01 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

In article <BzArCr.2Hy@brunel.ac.uk> ee89psw@brunel.ac.uk (Paul S Wain) writes:

   Eric (with Josh Kirby {who else?})

Make that:

FaustEric   :-)

(only some editions have illustrations by Josh Kirby - mine doesn't have
them, thank goodness)
--
	-- Chris. 	cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk   (on Janet, cc@uk.ac.ed.dcs)
From: daves@csc.liv.ac.uk (Dave Shield)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Flying Things perform Mort
Date: 18 Dec 92 12:40:13 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University

In article <memo.811266@cix.compulink.co.uk>, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
> What's this.  Flying Thing are using FOUR actors now?  It was only three when
> I saw them! (Mind you, they didn't half have to work hard...

  Yes - there were definitely four of them.  From memory (I don't have the programme with me):

	Mort / MORT
	Death / DEATH
	Ysabelle / Princess
	Albert / Ridcully

			plus a number of other parts each. I don't *think*  that
Mort played anyone else, but I wouldn't swear to it.  Everything happened so fast!
I'm trying to imagine how they could have managed with only three.

They caught the spirit of the book very well indeed.  Highly recommended.

	"I'm a wizard. We know these things."

> Terry

Dave
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From: cri@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mr. PlEaSanT)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Bonsai!
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:10:28 GMT
Organization: We here at the Asylum don't think about that.
 School Groups: Treasurer A.R.S.A.
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 Where: Wish I could tell you...

leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y) writes:

>In article <1ghu67EINNsqe@uni-erlangen.de>, uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:
> > nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Innocent hootenanny brides" Neilski) writes:
> > >esi104@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Jo) writes:
> > 
> > >>Just been re-reading 'Reaper Man', and there's one thing I don't get.....
> > >>when the Dean is doing his Rambo impressions, just before going to the
> > >>Queen, he goes on about bonsai. Could someone explain? Am I watching the
> > >>wrong films? (and yes I have read the ATP).....
> > 
> > >Reminds me of the most excellent pinball, Banzai Run ...
> > 
> > >B-A-N-Z-A-I-I-I-!-!-!
> > 
> > Meaning "forever," as far as I know. Or rather F-O-R-E-V-E-R-R-R-!-!-!
> > Many of them were Kamikazes, you know, which was probably a measure to
> > economize on medals.
> > 
> > 
> > May the Cool Be with You!
> > 
> > (C)OOL mcmxcii
> > "Who's Pearl Harbor?" (Mia Farrow)

>Well,I thought the literal translation of "banzai" was"ten thousand years old"
>or something in that vein. Don't blame me,my Auntie told me when I was little.

>-Leif Kj|nn|y

"bonsai" is an anchient revered japanese art of growing very tiny trees.

they are shaped and stunted in very particular patterns, take a LONG time to
do, and cost alot.

does that clear anything up?

criss

cri@acsu.buffalo.edu

"Shoot me again! I love the smell of burnt feathers, and gunpowder,
and cordite! Look! I'm a moose! Shoot me! It's Moose Season! Now
I'm a fiddler crab! Why don't you shoot me? It's Fiddler Crab Season!"

"I think you're pretty tough, don't I?"
                                         -Daffy
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From: mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( )
Subject: Re: TP *IN* OZ (was Re: TP is OZ)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:42:01 GMT

In article <sbg.724329675@fox-in> sbg@socs.uts.edu.au (Stephen Boyd Gowing) writes:
>Has no one else been game to flame Terry over his subject-line or
>has the thread just not made it here yet?

Flame *Terry?*  Are you joking?  (gasp, choke).

Besides, it makes a certain amount of sense to any fan of L Frank Baum.



-- 
"No, no, no!  Slash _parallel_ to your arm, not across!"
	-Leck's Suicide Hotline (from Ivan Brunetti's _Misery Loves Comedy_)
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From: macaj2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (MACKINNELL AMANDA)
Subject: Re: : TP is OZ
Summary: Canberra
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:36:31 GMT

In article <1992Dec9.033552.23921@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s)) writes:
> Stuart Reeh writes ...
> >Let's avoid the hassle of a flame war here: we would all like you to visit
> >us, in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney (even Wollongong), and if you come we
> >will all be as hospitable as can be.
> Hopefully Terry will have enough time in
> Australia to visit more than just wollongong, and he
> seems to be assured of a warm welcome (and a free lunch)
> in most places around the country.
> 
> neil
> 
> P.S Terry, whatever you do, don't go to Canberra :-)
> 
	ERRRRK!!! WRONG Terry PLEASE!!! come to Canberra, you have a whole 
	Defence Academy of Cadets who NEED you to come to Canberra.

	I can even offer you a room at the Academy or you can stay at 
	my parents place with 2 (see 2!!!) REAL cats and a bunch of lovable
	hairy things that make Gaspode look ordinary.

	PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

	Amanda J MacKinnell
	" I have a clinical diability to keep my room tidy for more than a 
	minute. "
From: mmmchugh@vax1.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Graphic novel of _The Colour of Magic_
Keywords: graphic novel
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:02:12 GMT
Organization: Trinity College Dublin

Hi,

Has anyone gotten the graphic novel of _The Colour of Magic_ yet?  I got it for
a friend who is a TP fanatic for Christmas, he was very excited.  (Of course I
purused the tome before I gave it to him and I must say I love it, the art work
is great, I love all the little background details).

I also saw the first section of _The Light Fantastic_ in a store recently - the
art work is as good.  The piece where the wizards summon DEATH is great - DEATH
stands there holding a glass of champagne and a piece of cheese on a cocktail
stick - looking very pi**ed off.

My favourite character of all of TP's discworld books has to be DEATH.  He is
great.  But I love what he has been doing with the witches recently, and after
reading _Lords and Ladies_, I must say that Granny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax
are fast closing on DEATH as my favourites.

I read the last annotated Pratchette file, and I must add that Leo asked about
a reference to the Count Nosferatu in one of TP's books.  A Nosferatu is the
Salvonic name for a vampire - as any vampire aficionado will inform you.  Also,
the second reference to the _Blues Brothers_ is correct "We're 106 miles from
Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and
we're wearing sunglasses.  Hit it." I think Elroy says the first part, and Jake
says the last two words.  So, I believe your latter quote to be correct.

Great file, by the way!

Noctua
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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: s****y vs MELBOURNE vs tasmania
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:50:37 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.023011.14887@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:
> Yes it was - I'd recognise that handwriting anywhere!  You were the one
> that offered TP a place in Sydney, weren't you?

Oh, I thought I started it by ragging about why anyone would go to Wollongong
when Sydney was right there...
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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  'U`    
Tarjoilija, tm ateria el viel.
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From: sgcclmj@citec.oz.au (Liz Jones)
Subject: Re: TP is OZ 
Organization: CITEC
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:24:47 GMT

quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:
: In <1992Dec15.174756.1876@scorch.apana.org.au> harris@scorch.apana.org.au (Michael Brown) writes:
: 
: >	Terry !  Don't go to Brisbane !!
: 
: Terry!  Don't go to Houston !!  - hang on - that's not in Australia either.
: 
: Quetzal aka I need a passport to visit Queensland.

terry was here a while ago.
we thought we'd be generous and let you mexicans have a shot, and look what
happens!  insults!!

huh :)

liz
From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Guards!^2 on Radio5  - queries
Date: 16 Dec 92 12:50:00 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

Two points about Guards!^2 on Radio 5

i) Who's taken all the figgins away? I've listened to all 4 epsisodes and 
not once have I heard mention of these delicacies.
(WELL IT WASN'T ME. I PREFER PIZAA. KLATCHIAN HOTS WITH ANCHOVIES, EASY
ON THE TUNA)

ii) Who wrote the "extra" 3 lines to the "A Wizard's Staff". Whoever it was,
he's definitely on the right lines (IMHO). [I'll post them tomorrow if
anyone's interested. I forgot to bring the tape with me today]

-- 
 Angus M. Marshall, MCRAMM@DCT.AC.UK,amarshal@mcs.dund.ac.uk, (+44 382) 308600
Then I was gone, and in my place - a cat with green eyes.
    )     <-- Cheshire Smiley?
From: bruce@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Bruce Stephens)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Flying Things perform Mort
Date: 14 Dec 92 11:49:21 GMT
Organization: Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Univ. Liverpool, UK

I just went to see Mort at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool.  Amazing turn
out---it was pretty much a sell-out, even though it was after the end
of term for the University, and the Unity almost never sells out.

Anyway, it's well worth seeing.  It's very funny, follows the plot
amazingly well, and is altogether a Very Clever Adaptation.
--
Bruce              CMSR, University of Liverpool
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From: hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Anthony 'SCHWAibo' Hobbs)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Dreaded favorite character thread
Date: 19 Dec 92 04:21:33 GMT
Organization: ACCGEK, New Zealand
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In article <leo.720180773@galaxy>, leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:

> That's not to say that we haven't had them, and that they aren't
> totally and utterly boring. About two dozen replies can be expected to
> say either Rincewind, The Luggage, Death, or The Librarian, with a few
> Really Cool non-conformists throwing in a Casanunder or CMOT or two.
> Yawn.

Okay, I'll bite. I love Magrat Garlick. Truly. Deeply. Madly. And I haven't
even read "Witches Abroad" yet. 

		- SCHWA. (you didn't expect that, did you?)
-- 
"I have everything I need to know - 'Bob' told me so!"

Anthony Hobbs		SCHWAibo		    hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Chief Lord High Priest, ACCGEK - Hail Frozen Yoghurt - Snuggles Loves You
DISCLAIMER: I am not Romanian and was not head of the Securitate for 15 years.
From: cstadbg@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M J Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: The Nice but Inaccurate properties of Terry Pratchette
Date: 18 Dec 1992 12:41:19 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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In GOOD OMENS I notice that many hilarious references are made to Queen songs
throughout the book. However, I notice that in one part of the book, the text
goes

"All we need is, Radio Gaga" screamed the radio (or something like that)
All I need, is out said Crowley

Unfortunately, the person on the radio/tape was obviously an imposter! In the
song the words are, of course "All we hear is Radio Gaga" .... 

But then again, the joke on the following line wouldnt have worked if the 
original words had been used..?

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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: s****y vs MELBOURNE vs tasmania
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:42:53 GMT

In <Bz6L58.9AH@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>Good god, did I start this?

I thought *I* did.

Quetzal
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From: neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s))
Subject: Re:TP is OZ & Sydney is OZ
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:03:37 GMT

>(Quetzal) writes:
>> > In <Bz6L58.9AH@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> > 
>> > >Good god, did I start this?
>> > I thought *I* did.
>
>>Well, at least it wasn't me.
>
>Yes it was - I'd recognise that handwriting anywhere!  You were the one
>that offered TP a place in Sydney, weren't you?
>
>Quetzal
>
Hang on, I thought I started it. Anyway, you can yell and scream
as much as you like, but that doesn't change the fact that you still
are a victorian.

Neil.

--
******************************************
You can't take three from two,
Two is less than three,
So you look at the four in the tens place.
Now that's really four tens,
So you make it three tens,
Regroup, and you change a ten to ten ones,
And you add them to the two and get twelve,
And you take away three, that's nine.
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From: kcl@world.std.com (Katherine C Long)
Subject: Re: Bromeliad Trilogy - Frogs?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:57:35 GMT

Dear Folks,

     A traveling friend just brought back paperback copies of
_Truckers_ from Great Britain.  Wonderful Winter Solstice 
presents for all the grandkids!  The vital stats are:

     Truckers, a Corgi book, ISBN 0-552-52595-2, #2.99, cover
        by Kirby.  The verso says the other two in the series
        are also available in paper.

Katherine Long
kcl@world.std.com

  8-)
   XXXXxxxx=

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From: jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner)
Subject: Re: Amzing, we got it back to Pratchett! 
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:29:49 GMT

quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:

|>Interesting to note, it seems nomatter how far the thread veers from TP,
|>we seem to be able to link it back with TP. 

|All right - What did you think of last Thursday's Star Trek episode?
|(Try *that* one!)

You mean the one where they thought Picard was a god? I wonder if he
became more powerful because people believed in him. You know, like
the Great God Om. 

Ha! Easy isn't it!

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jim Garner B.Math (Newcastle NSW Australia) - jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au
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Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies annotations
From: chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (The Technicolour Throw-up)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 08:38:10 GMT
Organization: Computer Science,University of Canterbury,New Zealand

From article <724076244snx@warren.demon.co.uk>, by leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton):
> p11:  "... a long time ago, in the past.*"
>       [footnote] *Which is another country.
> 
>       "The Past is a strange country: they do things differently there"
>       are the opening words of a book, I *think* "The Go-Between", and I
>       *think* Iris Murdoch - any confirmation, anyone ?

L.P. Hartley.

> p222: The sleeping king and his warriors who will awake at the End of
>       Things when a wolf eats the sun - this rings a bell (sorry :-))
>       but for the life of me I can't place it! Is it, perhaps,
>       Charlemagne ? Or Arthur ? But I thought Arthur sleeps alone, and
>       the wolf sounds Nordic not Carolingian ...

The sleeping warriors bit reminds me strongly of Alan Garner's "The
Weirdstone of Brisingamen".  Garner borrowed extensively from Norse and
Celtic mythology.

--
Just my two rubber ningis worth.
Name: Michael Chisnall  (chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz)
I'm not a .signature virus and nor do I play one on tv.
Will be .signature virus for food.
From: davet@uk.sun.com (Dave Tong - Sun UK - Tech Support)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: A'Tuin is Male...?
Date: 15 Dec 92 13:34:06 GMT
Reply-To: davet@uk.sun.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems Ltd.

In the current edition of VIZ magazine, there's an advert for a
Discworld graphic novel. The advertising blurb reads:
	"It's the turtle's b*ll*cks" [my *'s]
Therefore A'Tuin must be male?

Only a thought.