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From: wsinow@urc.tue.nl (Olaf Weber)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Date: 3 Sep 92 07:05:02 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
In-reply-to: johnf@apollo.hp.com's message of 2 Sep 92 16:41:33 GMT

In article <BtyMDA.CuK@apollo.hp.com> johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:
>In article <annotated-pratchett_715386709@ph.tn.tudelft.nl> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
>>Archive-name: annotated-pratchett
>>Last-modified: 1992/09/01 21:50:22
>>Version: 2.0
>>Maintained-by: Leo Breebaart (leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
>>
>>- [p.171] 'Zweiblumen' is the literal German translation of 'Twoflower'.
>>  [I don't know if 'Rjinswand' is a similar Scandinavian translation. Anybody?]
>
>Rjinswand is fairly obviously Dutch, not Scandinavian.  The name appears
>to be a phonetic transliteration rather than an actual translation.

Being Dutch (like Leo) I can tell you that Rjinswand is _not_ fairly
obviously Dutch.  The Dutch translations use Rinzwind.

>>- [p. 108] "Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however
>>  improbable, must be the truth. [...] There was also the curious incident of 
>>  the orangutan in the night-time ..."
>>  This paraphrases Sherlock Holmes, and refers to "The Hound Of The 
>>  Baskervilles" [and perhaps also to Edgar Allan Poe. Terry??].
>
>??? Why do you think it refers to Poe?  Please explain.

The reference to Poe would be to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
or one of the other stories which have one Dupin as the hero.  
There are two or three of those.  Some people claim that Dupin 
inspired Holmes.

>John Francis                                johnf@apollo.hp.com
>Seen passing on the net:  Spotted Owl - the *other* white meat!

Some other points -- I have to provide enough new text anyway.

The Malleus Maleficarum was tranlated into English 1929 bye the 
rev. Montague Summers and is reprinted every few years.  (Or so it 
seems.)  My copy of the translation was printed in 1971 by Dover 
books (an American publisher) and has ISBN 0-486-22802-9.  This for 
those people who prefer _reading_ a book to reading _about_ a book.

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.  "The Sending of 
Eight" in TCOM seems to be a spoof the typical Lovecraft short story.
Note that Necrotelecomnicom is sometimes spelled Necrotelicomnicom.

Olaf Weber                                    wsinow@urc.tue.nl

PS: Leo, "Het Gefluister in de Duisternis" is een verzameling 
verhalen van Lovecraft en bevat een korte beschrijving van de
Necronomicon in een appendix.
From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Truckers in the US...
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:11:05 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Aug27.102509.89902@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
>In article <1992Aug26.203148.12891@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy) writes:
>> Well, ordered _Truckers_ from Lauriat's Books...
[snip]
>> I'm getting a hard-cover of it -- is this wise? Or am I paying more than
>> I need to? No matter...
> Depends how much you are paying. I got the trilogy for A$6.95 each.

Ah, well... Got a gift certificate anyway, so $14.95 ain't that bad. :-J


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From: nick@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Nick Falkner)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Latin
Keywords: Oh god, not again
Date: 3 Sep 92 04:00:39 GMT
Reply-To: nick@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Nick Falkner)
Organization: Dennis's Electric Collaboration

In article <BtwpCr.G6D@apollo.hp.com>, johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:
|>In article <ano.715336532@reading> ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden) writes:
|>>
|>>Another latin / dog-latin query:
|>>
|>>The last one is the "Malleus Maleficarum". Can anyone translate that?
|>
|>Vague memories from the back of my mind (it's almost 30 years since I
|>studied any latin) suggest the answer would be, roughly,
|>
|>     "Hammer of Evil"  or  "Hammer of the Evil Ones"

The most common translation of this is 'Witch Hammer' - since the witches were 
the 'evil ones'.  It was written by two very strange monks and had a LOT of very
nasty stuff in it - a lot of it obviously fuelled by a hatred/obsession towards
women.

Share it with someone you hate.....

Nick Falkner.
(Who's glad that the middle ages are over.)
nick@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au
Deal with it.
From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Terry's readings
Date: 23 Aug 92 14:17:59 GMT
Reply-To: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de
Organization: Ectophiles Unlimited, Wuppertal, Germany

Terry wrote:
> folks. They've got the Truckers trilogy, too.  Me narrate them?  Hear my
> speaking voice and understand why not...

Well, I and Claudia have to disagree here. We have been to your readings
at ConFiction (TheHague) and last years EasterCon (Glasgow), and we enjoyed
it a lot. Although your speaking voice would not qualify for a job as a
radio or telly news speaker, it is very good for reading fiction.

Looking forward to see and hear you at MagiCon (Orlando) in a couple of days!

BTW: thanks for your recommendation of Lene Lovich during our Duesseldorf
chat about music (esp. the Kate Bush reference in _Eric_). She's great!

A note to the keeper of the FAQ:
I was surprised that it didn't list the video with the TV adaption of
_Truckers_. In case the details should be unknown:
  Thames Television International, Video Collection International
  VHS TV 8159, 110 minutes, VHS-PAL, price: aprox. 8 pounds.

        ___________________________________________________________
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        )  Will you be physical again, or be a cosmic vagabond."  (
       /                                --- Happy Rhodes ---       \
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Stupid birds (Small Gods spoilers)
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 01:39:31 GMT

In article <leo.715198620@galaxy> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
>csa18@seq1.keele.ac.uk (R.J. Husmo) writes:
>> Anyway, in SG TP writes that the penguin is the second most confused bird
>> in the world (as it can only swim underwater). This, of course, begs the
>> question: which is the _most_ stupid bird? 

>The dodo?

Flightless birds tend to be stupid. I would say the domesticated turkey
would beat the dodo all hollow for stupidity. I doubt they could survive
on Mauritius even WITHOUT humans.

I beleive the most stupid flying bird is the drongo.
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From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Date: 30 Aug 92 06:27:03 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.

froggy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Robyn McNamara) writes:

>In article <1992Aug27.110422.1140@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz> lesley@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Lesley Walker) writes:
>>

>>(Or is Oz like NZ, where it's further for Aucklanders to go to Wellington
>>than for Wellingtonians to go to Auckland?)

>Well, I have heard Melburnians returning from Perth complain of sensory
>deprivation... is it true Perth closes at 6:30?   :)

No, thats Adelaide... the largest old people's home on the continet....

Eccles :)
From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Date: 3 Sep 92 02:37:54 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <annotated-pratchett_715386709@ph.tn.tudelft.nl>, leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
>
>REAPER MAN:
>

Page 235 (of the US Roc edition), Windle Poons talks with the
Librarian:

" . . . well, suppose there was a wolf that changed into a wolfman
at the full moon, and a woman that changed into a wolfwoman at the
full moon . . . you know, approaching the same shape but from
opposite directions? And they'd met. What do you tell them? Do you
let them sort it out for themselves?"

"Oook," said the Librarian, instantly.

"It's tempting."

"Oook."

"Mrs. Cake wouldn't like it, though."

"Eeek oook."

"You're right. You could have put it a little less coarsely, but
you're right. Everyone has to sort things out for themselves."


I suggest that the translation of "Eeek oook" is "It's a dog-eat-dog
world.


Also, there's a lot of odd surnames in RM (Door, Cake, Shoe, Spigot,
Wheels). Is this a hidden joke, or was Terry merely running out of
"neat" names like Weatherwax?

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (Incidentally, a wizard in _The Light Fantastic_ is named
Weatherwax. I wonder if he's any relationg to Granny . . .)
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insane mind."                             |
     --Terry Pratchett, _Reaper Man_      |
From: gordon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Date: 3 Sep 92 13:30:21 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
Originator: gordon@thurio.robots

In article <1992Sep3.032714.3322@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox) writes:
>Oh, and Conan...Cohen...get the idea?
         ^^^^^   ^^^^^

No! Really? I'd never thought of that before ...
:-)

>Fox
^^^^---I thought we'd stopped this unpleasantness, or was it a slip of
the keyboard.

Gordon (Mr. Smoketoomuch, Brian Smoketoomuch ...)
From: arc1@ukc.ac.uk (tony)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Bargains Galore!
Date: 28 Aug 92 08:08:38 GMT
Organization: Computing Laboratory, UKC


Philippe> For example : What is that "Bargains galore" ...

It just means "lots of bargains".

I'm not an anthropologist etc. but here's my thoughts on
this...

I imagine one of the reasons they say these things is
because the store has influenced the way they look at the
world.  It's much the same as humankind (and we are the
nomes.  Discuss) and gods.  So-called primitive societies
worship spirits of air, water, and so on.  These are derived
from trying to understand the world around them and thus
being able to impose some control over their lives.

The store-nomes think Arnold Bros. (est. 1905) is god.  The
store is thus a manifestation of the will of god.  Things in
the store were therefore placed there by Arnold Bros. (est.
1905) for the nomes.  In particular there are lots of
references to the signs up in the shop (Everything Must Go!
and so on) through which the workings of Arnold Bros. (est.
1905) are revealed.  I guess you can draw various parallels
with Judaeo-Christian history/theology here.  Our culture
(if you can call it that) draws on the use of religious
swear-words and oaths, often naming characters in the
mythology of the religion (remember the By Our Lady thread?
and the more obvious ones like 'Jeez' and so on).

Of course then you get those troublesome outsiders, and
people who think they can understand things with Science
rather than just having faith in Arnold Bros. (est. 1905)...

These parallels (to me) are the main points of the book(s).

stty -waffle

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From: pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Organization: (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:21:38 GMT

In article <BtyMDA.CuK@apollo.hp.com>, johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:
> 
>>- [p. 108] "Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however
>>  improbable, must be the truth. [...] There was also the curious incident of 
>>  the orangutan in the night-time ..."
>>  This paraphrases Sherlock Holmes, and refers to "The Hound Of The 
>>  Baskervilles" [and perhaps also to Edgar Allan Poe. Terry??].
> 
> ??? Why do you think it refers to Poe?  Please explain.
>
Well, monsieur Dupin could have said that (I am away from my library, so 
can't verify it), esp. that there was a 'curious incident of the orangutan'
in one of Poe's novels...

As for Holmes refernece - I thought about 'The sign of the four' when
reading that part... But again, my library is 1000 km from me now...
					       Michal	
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From: arc1@ukc.ac.uk (tony)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Stupid birds (Small Gods spoilers)
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:03:39 GMT
Organization: Computing Laboratory, UKC


Nathan> I refuse to concede that a bird is stupid simply because it cannot
Nathan> fly.  Evolution isn't linked to intelligence - we aren't stupid

I recall reading somewhere (anyone know the location?) in
one of TP's books that the duck is apparently the most
stupid bird of all (latinus canis: aves cretinissimus)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Only You Can Save Mankind <reviewish type spoilers?>
Keywords: Only You Save Mankind Review Spoilers
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 03:18:05 GMT

Well, I just received, read and passed on 'Only You Can Save Mankind' today
and thought I'd jot down a few words for all you ravening hordes who'll
be seeing it in the shops soon.

Well, most people here know the general plot but I'm going to repeat
it anyway.  The hero of the book is a twelve year old schoolkid called
Johnny who obtains a copy of the latest 'mega-shoot-'n'-zap-em-up' freshly
hacked by a friend.  While playing a message pops up on screen.  Messages
tend to do this quite a bit on those sort of games butthey usually don't
read 'We Surrender!'.  The aliens have decided that shooting a guy who
seems to have a limitless number of extra lives is a tad futile and
so they sue for peace and demand safe conduct.  The only problem with this is
the fact that the rest of the game playing world have also been able
to buy that particular game and so Johnny finds himself having to defend
a huge alien strike force (which simply will NOT fire as they have surrendered)
from the rest of the human, game playing population. 

As a backdrop though there are a few every day realities which appear including
Johnny's parents going through some Trying Times (imminent to a break up)
and a nasty scene involving a joyride crash.  The entire book is set over
the time of the Gulf War and provides a 'real life' backdrop to the
alien war on the computer screens.  And this appears to be the point of
the book.  As Johnny protects the SkeeWee fleet he begins to realise that
war isn't a game and isn;t as glamorous as it seems when the media gets to it.
In fact it involves a lot of individual confrontations when the enemy is
in fact just yourself playing on a different side.  Strangely enough
this was one of the major points in Small Gods too. Could it
be that TP wishes to make a statement about wars in general? 

Comparisons can be made to other books.  Wobbler the hacker had fleeting
similarities to the young Ender in Ender's game (well, his 'ability to
watch a game for a few minutes then get the high score first time' was a bit 
suspect) and the general idea of a computer game being used in order to
control reality for an entire race reminded me of God Game by Reverand Green.
But overall it was readable and chortlesome.  I look forward to the further
adventures of Johnny.

Mike

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From: macaj2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (MACKINNELL AMANDA)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Summary: wyrd sisters
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:16:59 GMT


Yes, there are copious references to the scottish play and Hamlet 
but also
"Please yourself" (a play that they mention) is probably a take off on
"As you like it"

My renaissance drama class looked at it and we also found Romeo and Juliet 
and the bit in the pub when Tomjon starts quoting and hwel realises what 
he has written" a shot of scotch..etc" was something that no king could have 
said...
is very much in the vein of the "imiatate the action of a tiger" speech and 
the feast of crispian speech both from Henry V (See the Branagh version.. 
especially the scene where he is carrying the body of the dead boy, and 
they carry the body of his brother past...*SOB*)

But also please note the references to fairy tales in  Wyrd Sisters
i.e. Black Aliss and "her romantic spells"  she had one where a princess had 
to finger a prince (Magrat gets worried about this) and she met a nasty end.. 
cooked in her own oven.

oh well.. thats my bit...


Amanda MacKinnell

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From: mongoose@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Conrad Leviston)
Subject: Re: GO and Queen
Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:51:04 GMT

Paul James (prj91@ecs.soton.ac.uk) wrote:
: Having read GO again this weekend, and having just seen the thread on
: Quenn Greatest Hits, I realised that 'Radio Ga Ga' was mentioned at
: one time, a track not present on the aforementioned album (I think, my
: copy is near Blackpool, I writing this near Ipswich and posting it
: from a computer in Southampton, isn't modern technology wonderful -:).
: Any onegot easy access to both?


	As Queen's Greatest hits was released in '81 or '82, and Radio Ga
Ga in '84, I would feel confident in saying that it is not on any copy of
Queen's Greatest Hits.

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From: neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher)
Subject: Re: Dog latin
Organization: Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH, Zurich
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:01:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.230857.23249@ugle.unit.no> snh@Lise.Unit.NO (St}le Norman Halvorsen) writes:
>Semper in ordure sumus, solem profundum variens
>
>Semper in fecalum, solus altam variat

We are always in shit, only the depth (height) varies.

>Nihil illegitemo carborundum

I never understood that one, either.

>Nothi te numquam opprimant

Don't know.

>Si tacuises philosophus mancisses

If you had been silent, you had remained a philosopher (This is, modulo some
orthography, real Latin).

Matthias "veniunt spectentur ut ipsi" Neeracher
From: ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Sharon and Tracy
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:36:25 GMT
Organization: University of Reading


In article <715602155snx@warren.demon.co.uk> leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick
Leverton) writes:

>Popularity of children's names goes in cycles, of course. At the moment
>Tracey and Sharon - Trace and Shaz - are very common names, and have
>come to refer generically to what we call Essex Girls - the brainless
>bimbos immortalised in 'blond' jokes. Hence an ideal name for a handmaiden,
>albeit one who acquires a mind of her own :-)
>
>I can't think of a 'Sharon' or a 'Shaz' in any TP book, though.

I can. At the beginning of Eric, where Rincewind is causing psychic
havoc around Ankh-morpork before Eric summons him. One of the places
he affects is a tavern where three barbarian ladies are drinking,
one of whom is called "Red Scharron". (or was it Sharryn? Something
like that anyway.)


<<   Adrian Ogden   _ . _ _   _ . _ _   _ _ . .   ano@csres.cs.rdg.ac.uk   >>
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
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Organization: Indexed; Access: Random.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 03:16:46 +0000

In article <leo.715514168@galaxy> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:

>John is the *third* person to tell me 'Rjinswand' is Dutch. None of these
>three folks appears to have noticed my address: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl,
>which could have told them that *I* am Dutch. And believe me, 'Rjinswand' 
>does not even come close to being 'obviously Dutch', a language I 
>happen to speak eh, fairly fluently.

Leo, *you* may be Dutch but Terry is not, and neither am I. Take it from
me :-) Rjinswand looks Dutch *to an Englishman*. Compare that well known
Dutch SF character, also invented by an English speaker (well, American
- we'll count it the same for this purpose :-)), Nicolas Rijn.


Nick Leverton
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From: segr@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Simon Read)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Date: 25 Aug 92 18:00:31 GMT
Organization: UMIST

So what exactly is the wrong sort of voice for reading DW? Or what's the right
sort of voice?

Sir Michael Horden? Robert Lindsay? .....

I'm not sure that a recorded DW novel is the right thing anyway (except of course
for the "visually disabled"!).

I'm afraid it'll spoil the humour, not only the fact that Djelibeli and Ptraci
will be exposed, in all their glory, for just who they are. Some humour only works
on the printed page, and that's what TP is writing (and long may he continue to
do so). DW, at least, is a parody of SF/F *writing* not of TV programmes, radio
shows or tapes. It has been VERY carefully written (I think, TP say if it's
otherwise) to be exactly that. I don't want it to try and be something it isn't;
it'll come out like a bad translation, the written equivalents of pun just won't
translate.

It'll also break the mystique to hear it read out. Until I saw a photo of the
Maestro himself I imagined him a bit like one of Josh Kirkby's illustrations; it
was a bit of a let down to find out that he's really like the rest of us, only
of course he writes stuff that's hilarious.

Don't let anyone make DW any more concrete than is necessary.

I suppose I should shut up and not listen to the tapes. But that's my 1/2p worth
(not that you can get 1/2ps anymore :-().

Simon Read
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From: mapmaa@gdr.bath.ac.uk (M Ainsworth)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:20:40 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK

In Pyramids, Antiphon ("the greatest writer of comic plays") is
probably a reference to Aristophanes, an ancient Greek playwright.

Mike Ainsworth

P.S. The UK mail system doesn't seem to understand nl.tudelft.tn.ph
So I'm posting this instead.

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Mike Ainsworth                                     M.Ainsworth@uk.ac.bath.maths