From: spencer@dew.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Reply-To: spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun)
Organization: Live Organ Transplants
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 20:15:04 GMT

Sorry to add yet another article to what is already an immense thread,
but these have not been mentioned yet (at least, not up to five seconds
ago)

In article <annotated-pratchett_715386709@ph.tn.tudelft.nl>, leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
>THE LIGHT FANTASTIC:
>
>- [p. 7] The philosopher Ly Tin Weedle, appearing here at a party, was also

Isn't this "Wheedle"?  (Sorry, attack of the Spelling Police)

>  spotted in a "Mort" footnote on p. 24, in a bar. He is rumoured to
>  appear a third time somewhere in the Discworld books, but I have not
>  been able to track that down.

He gets quoted a lot, doesn't he?  I seem to remember the young Emperor
in Mort saying something along the lines of "LTW says we must respect
our elders" as he passes the poisoned squishi back to the Vizier.

(hey, is squishi mentioned anywhere in the APF or is that considered too
obvious...)

>PYRAMIDS:
>
>- [p. 197] Philosophers' names. Xeno refers to Zeno, of aforementioned
>  paradox. Copolymer ("the greatest storyteller in the history of the world")
>  probably refers to Homer. Pthagonal ("a very acute man with an angle")
>  to Pythagoras. Iesope ("the greatest teller of fables") to Aesop.
>  Ibid is actually short for ibidem, which means, when citing literature 
>  references, to mean 'same author as before'. Hence: "Ibid you already know".

And also the line "The trouble with you, Ibid, is you think you're the
world's greatest bloody authority on everything."  Or something to that
effect.

>MOVING PICTURES:
>
>- [p. 47] "Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little".
>  Refers to the quote "Can't act. Can't sing. Can dance a little" about
>  Fred Astaire [But who said this??]

I think these are the notes from his first screen test but that's a shot
in the dark.  Since someone else said they'd go research it I'll shut up
now... :-)

>- [p. 132] Film studio names. Untied Alchemists is United Artists. Fir Wood 
>  Studios is Pine Tree Studios [?]. Microlithic Pictures is [Anybody?]. Terry 
>  says: "I've already gone electronically hoarse explaining that Floating 
>  Bladder Productions was just picked out of the air [...]"

There's also a ParaMountain... 

>- [p. 266] The Librarian hitting the gong in the underground theatre
>  refers to the Rank Organization's man-with-the-gong trademark, which 
>  Rank used at the front of each film just as Columbia used the Statue 
>  of Liberty and MGM used the roaring lion.  

Wasn't it Detritus the troll, not the Librarian?  (I read the book
straight through last night very very late so I could be remembering
incorrectly)

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