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Subject: Re: Why do wizards need to be celibate?
From: lesley@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Lesley Walker)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 06:17:37 GMT
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ

t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman) writes:
>lesley@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Lesley Walker) writes:
>: 
>: From Sourcery, it's to prevent the possibility of them having a eighth son,
>: because an eighth son of a wizard is a sourcer, and you saw what happened
>: when a sourcerer came along.
>
>But the wizard who works for the queen in Mort looks at the queen when she
>is getting dressed and he knows that he wont be able to do magic for a couple
>of days because of the erotic thoughts that occur.

Maybe both reasons are correct. I don't they are mutually exclusive.


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From: lee@soda.berkeley.edu (Lee Thompson-Herbert)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: box =/= balls
Date: 11 Sep 1992 09:42:43 GMT
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Keywords: American slang?

In article <BuELnD.50z@newcastle.ac.uk> Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall) writes:
>hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
>>Interesting. I've also heard that "box" is slang (American) for labia.
>
>Labia?!?! Vagina surely.

American slang?  It's certainly not any US slang _I've_ ever heard,
and I've lived in many different places in this benighted country.

Canadian slang, maybe?

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From: eklund@stacken.kth.se (Mathias Eklund)
Subject: Re: why wasn't this in the APF?
Organization: Stacken Computer Club, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:37:08 GMT

In addition to the Aliens reference.

Hicks "We are LEAVING"

In reaperman, p 238 "..Arthur, we are GOING"

On page 243, when the wizards are discussion the magic they want to use,
it also reminds me of the Aliens 'Nukeem or nervegas em' discussion.

Btw, Windle Poons-Winnie the Pooh? Never mind, just a thought ;)
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Re: 668, etc                            
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:59:00 +0000

I know Neil and I started talking publicly about 668, etc, in the summer of
1989 -- because just as you're finishing a book is the time when you've
bubbling over with sequel ideas.  And we've mentioned it a lot since then.
That being said...it's kind of inevitable, in any case.  A gag title just
waiting to be thought up.   There's only N ideas in the universe, and X
people busily recieving them every day.  Anyway, since we'll never ever write
the book, it's all a bit academic.

Someone some time mentioned a Westlake book published in 1991 called 'Humans'
which apparently put them in mind of GO.  I'm a Westlake fan but I've never
heard of the book.  What was it about?

Terry
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From: ccamfiel@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Christopher Camfield)
Subject: Re: Weatherwax
Keywords: weatherwax
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:31:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.223733.19536@wam.umd.edu> jengagne@wam.umd.edu (Jenny Lynne Gagne) writes:
>Seems to be a bit 'o confusion over this issue...
>
>WELL... okay, we know that the 8th son of an 8th son is a wizard (or a 
>sourcer, I'm not on my math here in the undereducated americas).  Galder
>Weatherwax was at one time an archchanncelor, and Esme Weatherwax is a witch.
>
>This makes sense.  A witch doesn't have to be an 8th anything, so anywhere
>along the Weatherwax bloodline she could have been born.  As for the
>comment "But Ridcully is Archancellor!" you have to realize that wizards,
>ESPECIALLY archchancellors, drop like flies.  And this particular one
>was assasinated rather clumsily by Tymon in TLF, if I recall, being replaced
>by quite a few other archchanncelors.

If we take the books as being in chronological order, then they can't be
the same archchancellor, since The Light Fantastic comes after Equal Rites.
And in fact, since we haven't seen any of the effects of ER in the Unseen
University (classes taught by witches, female students, etc.) then perhaps
we have to set ER further in the future than the other books.  In which case
it certainly can't be the same Archchancellor.  Comments?

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Subject: Re: Why do wizards need to be celibate?
From: lesley@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Lesley Walker)
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 11:27:27 GMT
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ

t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman) writes:
>
>I don't understand why wizards need to be celibate. In 'Mort' the reason is
>that impure thoughts destroy the ability of doing magic, but in Sourcery
>it is because wizards get children who are too good at magic.
>any comments?

From Sourcery, it's to prevent the possibility of them having a eighth son,
because an eighth son of a wizard is a sourcer, and you saw what happened
when a sourcerer came along.


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From: mmanchip@cs1.uct.ac.za (MG MANCHIP)
Subject: Re: Dutch
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:59:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep07.155932.10878@spc.nl> stefan@spc.nl (Stefan Posthuma) writes:
>From: stefan@spc.nl (Stefan Posthuma)
>Subject: Re: Dutch
>Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 15:59:32 GMT
>ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles) writes:
>
>>Dutch was described to me by someone who came back from a
>>year in Europe as 'Not so much a language as a throat disease'
>Zeg! Dat zij geen geintjes meer! Hoe durf je ons brabbeltaaltje te
>kleineren! Moge mannen met zeisen uw dromen tot vreselijke nachtmerries
>maken. Padden op je pad!
>
>That'll teach you to make fun of our noble language.... ;-)
>-- 
Haai sies! Moenie lelik wees nie!
Hoe sal hy ooit nou slaap?
From: davep@hpwin052.uksr.hp.com (Dave Porter)
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:18:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Sharon and Tracy
Organization: HP Response Centre, Berkshire, England.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett

(A early Arnie movie - with Brigitte Neilson?? - god my memory is failing
me in my old age)

Regards
-- 
Derek - The Duty Scapegoat
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Hmmm. Time to set the record straight, methinks. Red Sonja was created by
Robert E. Howard, probably before Arnie was even thought of. Take a look at
some of the Conan books or "The Howard Collector" - simple hack and slash stuff
mostly, but loaded with atmosphere and a good read for all that...

DaveP

P.S.  Yup, I know - there are loads of Conan pastiches in the books, none
      of which come to mind right now. Check out Howard, and if you really
      want to fry your brains you could check out H. P. Lovecraft at the
      same time... 
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From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Subject: Dutch
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 06:27:57 GMT


Dutch was described to me by someone who came back from a
year in Europe as 'Not so much a language as a throat disease'

Eccles
:)

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From: ac463@yfn.ysu.edu (Rich Yauman)
Subject: Re: Why do wizards need to be celibate?
Reply-To: ac463@yfn.ysu.edu (Rich Yauman)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:50:16 GMT


>
>But the wizard who works for the queen in Mort looks at the queen when she
>is getting dressed and he knows that he wont be able to do magic for a couple
>of days because of the erotic thoughts that occur.

The thing here may be the fact that he knows he won't be able to do magic.
He has been taught all his professional life that erotic thoughts 
interfere with magic, with some people the belief is enough to make
something work.  That's why placebos can actually help someone.

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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: Celibacy and Wizards
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:48:01 GMT

gordon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton) writes:

>(Its quite a lot more fun than pointing out
>that, for example, there is a small discrepancy in the description of
>the patrician's jockstrap in TCOM compared with GUARDS! GUARDS!)

Jockstrap. I didn't know what that means, so I looked it up in the dic-
tionary. It said "Sportsuspensorium", loan translation: "sports suspen-
sory". I had no idea what that means, either. Finally my linguistics
professor told me.

All I can say is: Good Grief!


May the Cool Be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
From: sander@cwi.nl (Sander Plomp)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Wanted some info
Date: 8 Sep 92 13:27:37 GMT

ins448c@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Mills) writes:

> The order of the Discworld books really does not matter, however, the later
> works of TP are a bit more refined than the first couple.

> The first two Discworld books are The Color of Magic and then The Light
> Fantastic.  If you read and like these two books I would recommend getting
> your hands on the rest of them.

To clarify this a bit, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic should
be read in that order, The Light Fantastic is a sequel to The Colour of
Magic.

All the others are independent stories and can be read in any order, though
reading them more or less in the order of publication is probably best,
because the discworld might have developed a bit over time.

Terry Pratchett also wrote the Truckers trilogy, which *is* a single
story to be read in the order Truckers, Diggers, Wings.

Good Omes, co-written with Neil Gaiman, is yet again indepent of all
other stories, it shares neither storyline, nor background, nor characters
with any of the other books.

Strata and Dark Side of the Sun are early SF books by TP, indepent of
eachother and the other books. They are rather different in style, not at
all typical of the later Terry Pratchett books. More serious. (I liked
them though, esp. Strata)
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From: g88m0396@alpha.ru.ac.za (Jon-Dean Mountjoy)
Subject: Re: Celibacy and Wizards
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:03:00 GMT

In <1992Sep8.041357.275@newshost.anu.edu.au> clement@arp.anu.edu.au (CJ Canon) writes:

>In article 524 of alt.fan.pratchett, Andrew Mills (ins448c@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au) writes:
>>You've got it completely wrong, it is the (nine - one)th son of a wizard that
>>becomes a Sourcerer.  And the reason is actually, that wizards who have spent 
>>their whole life in search of more/better magic never got time to have 
>>dalliances with females and are now too old to enjoy them, and therefore
>>refuse to let younger wizards have any fun either. :-)      

>Partly correct. It is actually the 8th son of the 8th son who becomes the 
>sourcer{er|or}. Terry writes: "An eighth son of an eighth son - a wizard
>squared - a Sourceror" (or something v. similar).

__NOOOOO.  It IS the 8th son of the 8th son of the 8th son that is a soucerer.
A wizard's 8th son.  Coin was "Ipseth"'s (spel) 8th son, and he was a wizard.
According to Soucery, the reason why celibacy amongst wizards is encouraged,
is that they want to avoid Soucerers.  The gods wouldn't allow it, and 
the diskworld is, well, falling apart.

J-D


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From: ses@cmns-moon.think.com (Simon Edward Spero)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Celibate wizards
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:40:35
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I suppose it's all down to yer tantrics versus yer card tricks - just a game of
find the lady.

Simonn
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Subject: Malleus Maleficarum [was Re: Latin]
From: richard@nacjack.gen.nz (Richard Vowles)
Date: 6 Sep 92 18:00:43 GMT
Organization: Malleus Maleficarum - Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre


|>>The last one is the "Malleus Maleficarum". Can anyone translate that?

Damn, I missed this conversation in the recent shakeup of the news around
here!

Malleus Maleficarum was a book written in the late 15th century by
Heinrich Kramer and Joseph Sprenger, one was a Dominican Inquisitor
and the other, the Mayor of Colonge [Spelling?, big sorta place in
Germany]. Both were very high ranking officials in the Catholic Church,
and the got together and wrote a legal treatise on the aspects of witchcraft,
how to find it, how to punish it. It became Europe's FIRST bestseller
after the invention of the printing press (the Bible still being confined
to the shelves of religious institutions), and was on the shelf of
every judge for the entire period of the witchhunts. It is considered
to be responsible for the deaths of more innocent people than any other
book ('cept the bible of course, nothing comes CLOSE to that) during
the middle ages.

Its an AWESOME book, any large library should have it, our University
has three copies!

Funnily enuff, it is the name of my BBS...... :-)

Oh, and the name is translated into German as Hexen Hammer (my handle
as it so happens), and to English as "The Hammer Of Witches". Original
copies are still around in important museums.

Hex

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From: carols@world.std.com (Carol Springs)
Subject: Favourite plays-on-words (was Re: Celibacy and Wizards)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:14:06 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.141623.26825@lucrece.robots.ox.ac.uk> 
gordon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton) writes:

>I remember this 'cos Rincewind falling back into a pine forest leads
>up to my all-time favourite Terry Pratchett play-on-words(tm):

>"... the voice posessed what could only be described as timbre."

>P.S. What are other peoples favourites?

From Reaper Man: 

           The fire was a barely-visible glow, settling in the 
           forge.  The smithy was full of warm darkness.

           What it didn't contain was the ghost of a scythe.

 
-- 
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From: neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher)
Subject: Re: Celibate wizards
Organization: Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH, Zurich
	<VADER.92Sep10205725@meryl.csd.uu.se> <BuE0Bz.8I6@world.std.com>
	<1992Sep14.121108.1@venus.resntl.bhp.com.au>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:10:19 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.121108.1@venus.resntl.bhp.com.au> andrew@venus.resntl.bhp.com.au writes:
>vader@meryl.csd.uu.se (]ke Eldberg) writes:
> 
>>In all myths and legends I know of, wizards are celibate. I believe
>>it has something to do with the idea that anyone who has sex with
>>women/becomes enamoured of a woman will no longer be fully in power
>>over his own life. 
>> 
>This seems to parallel the commonly held view that footballers should not
>"indulge" the night before a big match because it "saps their strength or
>something". From what I've seen, this has about as much validity in an
>objective, physical sense as celibacy for wizards. (Unless I've missed some
>recent research results

There *has* been recent research. If I remember the results correctly,
celibacy in the last 8 hours before a sports event has advantages, but any
longer periods have no effect on strength. (It may, however, have effects on
aggressivity).

Matthias

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From: ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Well, I'm back
Date: 14 Sep 92 08:46:28 GMT
Organization: University of Reading

hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:

>Really? All great philosophers know that there is only one place.
>There is no other place for TP to be back from.

Yes, but that place is _very large_.


<<  Adrian Ogden -- "Sic Biscuitus Disintegrat" -- ano@csres.cs.rdg.ac.uk  >>
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Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
From: chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (The Technicolour Throw-up)
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:55:50 +1200
Distribution: world
Organization: Computer Science,University of Canterbury,New Zealand

From article <WSINOW.92Sep3090502@rwc.urc.tue.nl>, by wsinow@urc.tue.nl (Olaf Weber):
> The Necrotelecomnicom seems to based on the Necronomicon, which was
> written by the mad Arab Abdul al-Hazred and can be found in the
> top-security vaults of a select few universities -- if we may
> believe H.P. Lovecraft on such matters.  (The first name of the Arab 
> is probably close but wrong.)  The book is mentioned in relation to
> the "Ctulhu Mythos" created by Lovecraft, which also seems to have
> produced some inspiration regarding the Dungeon Dimensions and the
> nomenclature of creatures like Bel-Shamharoth, Yob Soddoth and Tshub
> Aklatep, Infernal Star Toad with A Million Young.

One of the entities of the Cthulhu Mythos is Shub-Niggurath - The Goat with a
Thousand Young.  ("The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young" if you
want the full, but less common, title).

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From: nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Weatherwax
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:24:46 GMT
Organization: X-Tel Services Ltd.

In article <1992Sep9.202951.27558@ugle.unit.no>, leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y) writes:
|> Path: nott-cs!uknet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!lise.unit.no!leifmk
|> From: leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y)
|> Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
|> Subject: Re: Weatherwax
|> Message-ID: <1992Sep9.202951.27558@ugle.unit.no>
|> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 21:29:51 BST
|> References: <1992Sep8.041814.1915@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
|> Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
|> Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
|> Lines: 22
|> 
|> In article <1992Sep8.041814.1915@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox) writes:
|>  > Question: 
|>  > 
|>  > Were Galder Weatherwax, the chancelor of the University or whatever in
|>  > The Light Fantastic, and Granny Weatherwax, related at all?  I think
|>  > we should be told!
|>  > 
|>  > Mike
|>  > --
|>  > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|>  >   /\_/\ F   "It's refreshing to see a woman who dresses like a woman
|>  >   \O O/ O    and not how a woman thinks a man would dress if he dressed
|>  >    \o/  X    like a woman"  -  Harrison Ford  -  Working Girl
|> 
|> They were.  They definitely were.  I can't remember in which book it was, but
|> there are VERY clear indications of them being VERY closely related--bloody hell,
|> if I could even remember which book this was, it's been a while since I read it--
|> I think they meet each other, and one asks the other if he/she has been home to
|> see Mother (or something vaguely like that).  Brother and sister, eh?  Or am I
|> completely wrong?
|> 
|> Leif

No, that was in Reaperman, where it turns out that the Chief wizzard and the 
chief priest are in fact brothers, (or so it seemed to me).

Neil.
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From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: Why do wizards need to be celibate?
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 18:02:57 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <CURT.92Sep7121343@vtucs.cc.vt.edu> curt@vtucs.cc.vt.edu (Curt Tilmes) writes:
>>I don't understand why wizards need to be celibate. In 'Mort' the reason is
>>that impure thoughts destroy the ability of doing magic, but in Sourcery
>>it is because wizards get children who are too good at magic.
>>any comments?
>
>If the real reason was the latter, perhaps the older wizards
>encouraged belief in the former.  (i.e., something the younger
>wizards might actually respect.)

I always thought this tradition was perpetuated because the older 
wizards had to do it, and by god, so will these young whippersnappers.
After all, why should the young have a good time if the oldsters didn't?
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From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Elmo the Vampire Slayer)
Subject: Re: Malleus Maleficarum [was Re: Latin]
Organization: Buffy Franchises Corp.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:28:36 GMT
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In article <25665@castle.ed.ac.uk>, cmac@castle.ed.ac.uk (Colin MacDonald) writes:
> While I'm here, is anyone else getting fed up of people taking the
> Discworld books and saying "Oh yes, there was a reference to
> such-and-such a bit like this in Dante's Inferno except that it said..."
> and so on.  I must confess to being prepared to accept that TP has at
> least _some_ originality in his work, and many of the examples cited in
> this group could well be pure coincidence.  Perhaps someone in authority
> (guess who) would venture to qualify which of these attributions are
> correct?

	Nah.  I do "The Annotated Neil Gaiman" over on rec.arts.comics, 
and _he_ doesn't do anything original either.  Everything's a reference to some
other literary work, as obscure as possible.  Terry's just as unoriginal as
Neil, which is why they worked so well together.

	Sprinkle smileys as appropriate.
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