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From: polowin@chem.queensu.ca (Joel Polowin)
Subject: Re: Wolfman reference
Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Queen's University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:42:28 GMT

In article <BxI3qo.EHw@cs.vu.nl> tamossel@cs.vu.nl (Mossel TAK) writes:

>>> + [p. 97] "Every full moon I turn into a wolfman. The rest of the time
>>>   I'm just a ... wolf."
>>>   There is a fantasy short story by a famous author [somehow Larry Niven
>>>   comes to mind. Anybody?] that has exactly the same idea for a punchline.
>
>But, also, indeed, so does Larry Niven. I don't remember its name offhand, 
>but it's in his "Playgrounds of the Mind" collection.
>Oh! Wait! Now it all comes back... There are two of those stories!
>One is about a wereman who is tricked by a magician, the other is about
>some kind of tavern run by a familie of werepeople. One of the regulars
>is a werewhale!!!

The stories you're thinking of are "What Good is a Glass Dagger?", in
Niven's _The Flight of the Horse_ (and other collections/anthologies),
and "The Lion in his Attic", in Niven's _Limits_.

Joel Polowin
polowin@silicon.chem.queensu.ca, polowin@chem.queensu.ca,
 polowinj@qucdn.queensu.ca

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From: ghouse@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Mujtaba Ghouse)
Subject: Droit du seigneur (was Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort)
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:29:38 GMT

leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
>> 	And in Wyrd Sisters, The Droit de segnier: The right that a medieval
>> lord could claim to sleep with the bride of any of his subjects upon their
>> wedding night - thus all sorts of refernces to exercising big hairy things,
>> which the new king takes to mean a dog.
>And this is of course an example of a *good* reference, that I will gladly
>add to the APF. Anybody willing to write up a nice paragraph about
>origins and history of this phrase for me?
>-- 
>Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)

Courtesy of my 1940 edition of Encyclopaedia Brittanica (as paraphrased by
me):

Jus Primae Noctis ("right of first night") or droit du seigneur:
  a custom alleged to have existed in mediaeval Europe giving the lord the
  right to sleep the first night with the bride of any one of his vassals.
  The evidence deals with redemption dues which were paid to avoid
  its enforcement.  It probably existed as a *recognized custom* in
  parts of France and possibly Italy and Germany, but not elsewhere.

good enough?

-Mujtaba Ghouse
"Somewhere else, the tea is getting cold."
From: jwh@doc.ic.ac.uk (James William Handley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Discworld Dynamics (was Re: Idiots w
Date: 10 Nov 1992 11:10:51 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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In article <memo.738817@cix.compulink.co.uk>, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> Where is the sun at noon?
|> 
|> There are two answers.
|> 
|> A) It's directly over the centre of the Disc;
|> B) it's in a small cafe.
|> 
Does this mean it's in a seedy tavern in the Shades at midnight? ;-)

			James
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From: spencer@shine.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
Subject: Re: Blues Brothers
Reply-To: spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun)
Organization: Live Organ Transplants
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:23:58 GMT

In article <1doh1jINN2vm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, jmm25@po.CWRU.Edu (Jessica M. Mcgeary) writes:
>
>You got it exactly right. I have a poster hanging on my wall here that
>has the whole mantra on it... plus there is a .WAV file around here somewhere
>of Elwood saying "It's 106 miles to Chicago", etc. Also, there's a videotape
>of the movie that agrees... so I don't think there'll be a version problem.
>Could be wrong, though.

I've seen a poster that says "... packet of cigarettes" even though in
the movie he only says "pack."  Go figure.


-----
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come in please?"
From: Richard.Dalton@newcastle.ac.uk (Richard Dalton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Good Omens (error?)
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:23:17 GMT
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Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

R.T.Wieckowski@newcastle.ac.uk (River Johnson) writes:


>In article <1992Nov10.003455.10129@rdg.dec.com>, ggoodman@theraj.enet.dec.com (Graham Goodman) writes

>>......  See, he should've stuck to the Queen songs.
>> Nobody can ever remember how many Bismilahs there
>> were...
>>

>I know a man who can though ...

>... eh Rich ?!

Not kidding Riv *8^)

-> Easy come, easy go, will you let me go.
-> Bismillah! No, we will not let you go.
-> (Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go.
-> (Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go.
-> (Let me go.) Will not let you go.

So i make that 3 <grin>


        Rich 'Z'


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From: nparkhu1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Nao Parkhurst)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Discworld Dynamics (was Re: Idiots w
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:24:41 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College

In article <memo.738817@cix.compulink.co.uk>,
tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
> Where is the sun at noon?
> 
> There are two answers.
> 
> A) It's directly over the centre of the Disc;
> B) it's in a small cafe.
> 
> Terry
> 
> 

So, Terry, you're saying that there is a small cafe directly over the
centre of the Disc?

regards,
Nao
nparkhu1@cc.swarthmore.edu
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From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: Re: The Film(s) of the Book(s)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:49:13 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <BxI1EH.9u9@newcastle.ac.uk> J.M.A.Gilman@newcastle.ac.uk (J.M.A. Gilman) writes:
>
>    For CMOT Dibbler or Nobby, what about James Beck, who played
>Walker the Spiv in Dad's Army fifteen years ago ? 

Nowadays he would be rather better qualified for A SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT PART.
-- 
John Francis                                 johnf@apollo.hp.com
with 9 cats to feed, I don't have time to think up a clever .sig
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From: mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( )
Subject: Re: Death in general
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:24:10 GMT

In article <BxKBMp.Et2@ns1.nodak.edu> hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
>In article <1992Nov11.025530.3572@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
>>Parallel evolution, I think. Challenging Death to a game of chess (with one's
>>soul on the line) is a fairly old literary device.  Terry remarks on this in
>How old is it? The question is not rhetorical.

	The idea has been around since the Middle Ages at the latest.
I recall some medieval poetry (which escapes me) which speaks of gaming
with Death for one's life.

Michael "Yet another useless bit of information from my overpriced
	college education" Lucas


-- 
"No, no, no!  Slash _parallel_ to your arm, not across!"
	-Leck's Suicide Hotline (from Ivan Brunetti's _Misery Loves Comedy_)
		mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Thanks and a question....               
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:23:00 +0000

In Kensal Green Cemetry, one frosty Janaury day.  Since white clothes tend to
be thinner than dark clothes, I had to be stood in front of a blowlamp
between shots.

Terry
From: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: DEATH to BIFF!
Date: 5 Nov 92 06:28:53 GMT
Reply-To: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Columbia University

In article <GNAT.92Nov5183048@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz> Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz writes:
>(BIFF, to the uninitiated, is a mythological creature who makes
>ridiculous, archetypically prepubescant posts from his Vic-20 asking
                                                    ^^^
No, no, no.  From his OLDER BROTHER'S Vic-20.  Please.

Jonathan Lennox
jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
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From: mcodogno@nyx.cs.du.edu (Maurizio Codogno)
Subject: Re: Getting DW Books In Italy
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	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 13:46:13 GMT

In article <92316.201123NSTEVEN@ESTEC.BITNET> <NSTEVEN@ESTEC.BITNET> writes:
>I've now managed to overcome my usual illiteracy and gotten around to reading t
>he 1st 3 books in the DW series. Now that I'm in Rome, it's not too easy gettin
>g the next books. I've tried all the English Language bookshops (well there's o
>nly 2) and you're lucky if you can get 'The Beano' in these places.
>
>Anyone who can tell me how to obtain said works will be bought many beers shoul
>d they find me in Rome (and there's some pretty good taverns out here too).
>

This is a sad remark. It is very difficult to find TP books in Italy,
much more than for examples Douglas Adams' ones. And English Bookshops
usually charge tremendous amounts for a paperback, too. So I think
the best thing you can do is to order these from a bookshop in England.
 
BTW, there are very few translations, either. I know only about 
Truckers and Diggers...
--
ciao! .mau.
-----
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"home" email: mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it
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Subject: Re: Suns, orbits, & all that
From: PORC9122699R@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (WILLIAMS,Aaron)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 01:43:43 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
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In <Bx57xt.Bws@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> ccamfiel@napier.uwaterloo.ca writes:

> In article <alien.00o4@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
> >It's well established that the outer rim of the Discworld is tropical while
> >the hub (around Dunmanifestin) is polar. But it should be the other way
> >around -- on average, the sun is closer to the centre than any point on
> >the rim, so the centre should be warmer. (I worked this out years ago
> >after I first read "Strata"; I remember the general result but I've long
> >since lost the actual calculations.)
> >
> I thought about it too (no calculations though) ... but wouldn't it depend
> on whether the sun travels in a semi-circle over the disk?  What if it was
> a high parabola? :)
> 
> >
> >
>   

Yes...but also... What if it doesn't travel over the Disc's centre???
		  What if it orbits at an angle to the Disc' that is not
			perpendicular???

Also it would be terribly hard to have a Rimfall if it was all frozen!!! @:)


							-Baggins.

>
From: jmorris@spider.co.uk (John Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Douglas vs Terry
Date: 9 Nov 92 08:31:23 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

In article <721049292.24028@minster.york.ac.uk> pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>eaobrien@vax1.tcd.ie wrote:
>:
>:   Now, if we could find a Robert Rankin fan..
>: 
>
>Here's one.
>
>Mine's a pint of Large,
>pete

Here's another. See you down the allotment.

John.


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From: speterse%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (soren--Ms. Jackson if you're nasty)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v4.0, part 1 of 2
Date: 6 Nov 92 02:40:19 MST
Organization: The Erland Cult

In article <anno1_720998821@ph.tn.tudelft.nl> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:

PYRAMIDS

>  [ Can someone give me information about when 'Gormenghast' was written? ]
  
The late forties and early fifties.  I'm told there's a new edition out,
with some fairly substantial additions to the third book *Titus Alone*.


>ERIC

>- [p. 21] The book Eric uses to summon his demon has the title
>  "Mallificarum Sumpta Diabolicite Occularis Singularum", or the Book of
>  Ultimate Control. But note the initials.

While I wouldn't say that I exactly *know* Latin, I can say with a fair
degree of confidence that *Mallificarum Sumpta...* does NOT translate to
anything close to *The Book of Ultimate Control*.


MOVING PICTURES


>+ [p. 28] "'[...] what is the name of the outer-dimensional monster whose
>  distinctive cry is 'Yerwhatyerwhatyerwhat'?' 'Yob Soddoth,' said Ponder
>  promptly."

Also a blatant H.P. Lovecraft reference, to Yog Sotheth(?).  I don't know
Lovecraft well at all, except that YS is one of his many supernatural
nasties.

--
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: News update                             
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:07:00 +0000


Just got back from Cyprus and downloaded the usual 250k of stuff, but while I
sort that out here's a few interesting bits.  Expanded info later, perhaps:

1) The Australian tour will now very likely include a few days in Sydney,
around April 20.  Sorry, can't go anywhere else, I'm supposed to be on
HOLIDAY. I've said I want to do less media, more talking-to-people stuff and
signings.

 2) There's probably going to be a short South African visit towards the end
of January.  This has been sprung on me by the publishers.

3) While I'm loath to go into more detail until the ink is drying on the
contract, it is very likely that I soon be able to announce a nice new US
deal which will include hardback publication of future books and, after the
usual hiatus, eventually mean the end of those delays so often complained
about there.

Terry
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From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Subject: Re: Blues Brothers
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 03:29:56 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
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In article <83438@ut-emx.uucp> ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds) writes:
>Nice to see that there is SOME US comedy that's getting international 
>attention.  Not that most of it deserves any....

I wonder if it's possible to get the "classics" (bletch!) of American
television humor trans-puddle.  Can some of you folks tell me whether one can
see such shows as _I Love Lucy_, _The Honeymooners_, and _The Dick Van Dyke
Show_ Over There? Are they only shown on commercial television, perhaps? :-)

(Um.  That was a joke about how British shows are only shown on public TV
here.  Perhaps I shouldn't have bothered.)

Seth L. Blumberg          \ Warning: This posting has been determined to cause
slb22@columbia.edu (play)   \ cancer in laboratory animals.  Please make sure
sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ that no white mice are allowed to read it.  
    > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
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From: polowin@chem.queensu.ca (Joel Polowin)
Subject: Re: Good Omens
Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Queen's University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:34:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.203333.2262@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley ) writes:
>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SPPOOOOOILERS!!
>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SPPOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLERS!!!!
>spoilers?
>
>
>
>I was VERY unsatisfied with the way Newt and Anathema survived
>the hurricaine and felt equally cheated with the way Newt
>shut down the computers.  Newts effect on computers (and Anathema,
>for that matter), should have been established earlier.
>If this were made into a movie, people would think "Oh, they
>just threw that sex scene in for its own sake."  and they would
>be wrong.  Ask this question: What's the last thing you should be
>thinking about doing in a hurricaine?  Having sex.

There are worse ways of spending time in a hurricane, I image... and
some sort of gratuitous sex scene with Anathema and Newton was more or
less necessary at some point.  After all, there's the dramatic
necessity of having the witch turn a Newt into a man...  :-)

Joel Polowin
polowin@silicon.chem.queensu.ca, polowin@chem.queensu.ca,
 polowinj@qucdn.queensu.ca
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From: kjackson@cix.compulink.co.uk (Keith Jackson)
Subject: Re: Time travel (was Re: Discworld, Orbits and (probably) old threads)
Reply-To: kjackson@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 06:31:00 +0000


In article <1992Nov4.132527.16971@ugle.unit.no>, eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:
>Time travel, huh?  What about the librarian in Guards!  Guards! - doesn't HE go
>back in time?

No, he travels in L-space between the libraries.

Keith

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From: thompsmr@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Thompson)
Subject: Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort
Organization: Aston University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:34:25 GMT

	OK - Some more annotations. Not about Mort, but about Reaper Man. Now,
I've posted and Emailed some of these before, but I've had no response, and our system was up the spout at the time, so I'll do it again, and excuse me if 
you've seen these before.
	No page numbers, because I forgot.

	Title "Reaper Man" - play on "Repo Man", a film by Alex Cox.

	Where the kettle boils over and distracts Ned Simnal while he's looking
for a way to power his combination harvester : This is what caused Watt to 
come up with the idea for the steam engine (I think it was Watt, it may have 
been Stevenson, but I have a sneaky suspicion that he just bunged wheels on it,
put it on tracks and called it a locomotive) - the steam from a kettle that
boiled over.

	Where various characters say "Ole", and somebody replies "With milk?":

	Ole is spanish for "Ta Da" (basically), and Au Lait if French for
"With milk", as in Cafe au lait. They are pronounced the same way (o lay).

	And in Wyrd Sisters, The Droit de segnier: The right that a medieval
lord could claim to sleep with the bride of any of his subjects upon their
wedding night - thus all sorts of refernces to exercising big hairy things,
which the new king takes to mean a dog.

	That's all folks.

 
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From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Douglas vs Terry
Date: 6 Nov 92 11:28:14 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

eaobrien@vax1.tcd.ie wrote:
:
:   Now, if we could find a Robert Rankin fan..
: 

Here's one.

Mine's a pint of Large,
pete
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From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Subject: Re: Discworld Dynamics (was Re: Idiots w
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:30:29 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1do5brINNnjj@finch.doc.ic.ac.uk> jwh@doc.ic.ac.uk (James William Handley) writes:
<In article <memo.738817@cix.compulink.co.uk>, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
 
<|> Where is the sun at noon?
<|> 
<|> There are two answers.
<|> 
<|> A) It's directly over the centre of the Disc;
<|> B) it's in a small cafe.
<|> 
<Does this mean it's in a seedy tavern in the Shades at midnight? ;-)

No. This means it has a power lunch with some of the more skilled wizards
at the Unseen Cafe.

-- 
Mike   hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up."
                                                            Terry Pratchett
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
ReplyTo: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort
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In article <1drrbhINNql0@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> ST102315@brownvm.brown.edu writes:

>p.30...Albert's stove has a plaque on it that says "The Little Moloch
>  (Ptntd)".  One of my friends told me that Moloch is a God of the
>  Underworld, but had no real specific information.  Does anyone else
>  have any?

I don't know if that was a real make of stove, but Victorian household
gadgets often had kitsch trade names of exactly that sort.

>p.62..."Igneous Cutwell, DM(Unseen)..."  DM may be a reference to
>  Dungeons and Dragons, where the DM (or Dungeon Master) knows
>  everything that is going on and controls what happens in the game.
>  He is clearly not above trying to inflate his credentials, as he
>  soon admits to Mort.

DM(Unseen) means that Cutwell holds a Doctorate in Magic from the Unseen
University. It's the usual way of writing an academic qualification in
Britain - though the University name ought to be in Latin.

For instance, I could put BA(Cantab(Failed :-/ )) after my name, where
"Cantab." means Cantabrigensis (i.e. Cambridge) rather than Canterbury.

>p.86..."They could pee through a dozen mattresses..."  Albert here mangles
>  a fairy tale.  Unfortunately, I can't remember how it goes.  Anyone?
>  Anyone?

The Princess and the Pea - the servant girl proved to be a princess
because she could still feel a pea in her bed even through a dozen
mattresses.

>p.168..."When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-
>  deep slurry."  Something or someplace has a motto, "When you're
>  tired of ____, you're tired of life" or some such.

Ursa Minor Beta ? ;-)

>
>A newbie,
>jwgh

Nice short .sig - let's keep it that way :-)

Nick Leverton
-- 
a politician is an arse upon
which everything has sat except a man           e.e.cummings
From: jrickard@eoe.co.uk (John Rickard)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Refs to Computers on DW
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:50:37 GMT
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James William Handley (jwh@doc.ic.ac.uk) wrote:
: Wonder if Death would turn up for pop-stars, and if so what he'd think of them?

Of some relevance, although it doesn't quite answer the question, is Terry
Pratchett's short story "Turntables of the Night", in the collection
"Hidden Turnings", edited by Diana Wynne Jones.

(More details on the book:
  First published in GB 1989 by Methuen Children's books
  Published 1990 by Teens Mandarin, an imprint of Mandarin Paperbacks,
      Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, London SW3 6RB
  Mandarin is an imprint of the Octopus Publishing Group
  ISBN 0 74970279 6)

(I don't think this is in the FAQ; I'm mailing the FAQ-keeper.)

-- John Rickard