trousers of time cockup's ?
I. Fenton
hello.
having read a fair bit about trousers-of-time cockup's and how
there are/maybe inconsistencies in some of the DW canon, is there
some sort of list/faq/webpage with these things on ? i've noticed
a few coming across in the books and it would be nice to find a
webpage listing them to see if i am right/wrong and why i am wrong
if other people have thought it through more etc etc. trouble is,
ican never remember them by the time i get to work.
warning ! feet-of-clay spoiler below !!
also, does anyone else think that feet-of-clay reads much better
second time around ? i can't believe how wonderfully the whole
plot was given away in the first few pages without us noticing.
knowing it was a Watch whodunnit story (in part) i spent ages
reading the words carefully for clues to be used later
on, but missed it completely. damn.
good book.
Iain (who still prefers MAA)
Mark Burbidge
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In a message posted on 11 Jun 1996 14:48:31 GMT to the newsgroup
alt.fan.pratchett, I. Fenton wrote:
>I can't believe how wonderfully the whole plot was given away in the first few pages without us noticing.
Will you provide a reference for the apf?
Mark Burbidge http://www.ftech.net/~monark/
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So far: Good book, Genrikh talked to Philby for over
50 hours in the years before he died, and had access
to file 5581 after Philby's Death..
Terry Pratchett
In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960618...@ermine.ox.ac.uk>
sann...@ermine.ox.ac.uk "Victoria Martin" writes:
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> > ok, so maybe the "first few" pages was a bit wrong, but simply the
> > bit about "lamp au poisson", where Dragon talks to Vimes. it's
> > lovely. i mean, the kirby cover is full of candles, and the
> > blurb on the inside cover asks 'whos poisining the patrician'
> > and yet i didn't make the connection until it hit Vimes, and
> > Vimes had to spell it out for me.
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> > and i was looking.
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> Not to mention the way the anonymous villain keeps going 'aha' every time
> he crops up.
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> Victoria
I'm getting a lot of mail and email about FoC (I particularly liked the postcard
which read 'We were *sure* it was the wallpaper, you bastard!!!!!') I'm glad to
say that most Baconians hared off after poissons rouge.
But the point about a police procedural isn't whodunnit or howdunnit, it's
about watching the cops get it right by exhausting the ways of getting it
wrong. After all, in every Columbo mystery you know at least who the
killer was (it was This Week's Guest Star) -- the fun is is watching
Ole Raincoat home in...
Terry Pratchett
I. Fenton
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>In a message posted on 11 Jun 1996 14:48:31 GMT to the newsgroup
>alt.fan.pratchett, I. Fenton wrote:
>>I can't believe how wonderfully the whole plot was given away in the first few pages without us noticing.
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>Will you provide a reference for the apf?
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>Mark Burbidge http://www.ftech.net/~monark/
ok, so maybe the "first few" pages was a bit wrong, but simply the
bit about "lamp au poisson", where Dragon talks to Vimes. it's
lovely. i mean, the kirby cover is full of candles, and the
blurb on the inside cover asks 'whos poisining the patrician'
and yet i didn't make the connection until it hit Vimes, and
Vimes had to spell it out for me.
and i was looking.
Iain.
Victoria Martin
On 17 Jun 1996, I. Fenton wrote:
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> feet-of-clay spoiler !
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> >>I can't believe how wonderfully the whole plot was given away in the first few pages without us noticing.
> >
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> ok, so maybe the "first few" pages was a bit wrong, but simply the
> bit about "lamp au poisson", where Dragon talks to Vimes. it's
> lovely. i mean, the kirby cover is full of candles, and the
> blurb on the inside cover asks 'whos poisining the patrician'
> and yet i didn't make the connection until it hit Vimes, and
> Vimes had to spell it out for me.
>
> and i was looking.
>
Derek Mahony
In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960618...@ermine.ox.ac.uk>
sann...@ermine.ox.ac.uk "Victoria Martin" writes:
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> Not to mention the way the anonymous villain keeps going 'aha' every time
> he crops up.
I'm afraid I found the 'Ah-ha' spoilt things a bit. As soon as Dragon said
it I was waiting for him to start counting things. 'One shield!'
'Two shields!' 'Ah-ha.'
Normally that would have been fine but somehow the voice of the Count just
didn't fit Dragon's character. Unfortunately my brain insisted on using it.
Possibly Pterry meant it to be like that but if so it didn't work for me.
Nobody else has mentioned Seseme Street so maybe it's just me that made
that connection. Probably a sign of a mis-spent fatherhood.
--
Watha B.F.