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The Annotated Pratchett File, V9.0 The Annotated Pratchett File, v9.0 Collected and edited by: Leo Breebaart <[email protected]> Assistant Editor: Mike Kew <[email protected]> Organisation: Unseen University Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett,alt.books.pratchett Archive name: apf–9.0.3 Last modified: 1 July 2005 Version number: 9.0.3 (The Pointless Albatross Release) The Annotated Pratchett File 2 CONTENTS 1 Preface to v9.0 5 The Wee Free Men . 134 Monstrous Regiment . 137 2 Introduction 7 A Hat Full of Sky . 141 3 Discworld Annotations 9 Once More, With Footnotes . 142 The Colour of Magic . 9 Going Postal . 142 The Light Fantastic . 14 Wintersmith . 142 Equal Rites . 16 Thud . 142 Mort . 18 Where’s My Cow? . 142 Sourcery . 22 When I Am Old I Shall Wear Midnight . 143 Wyrd Sisters . 25 The Discworld Companion . 143 Pyramids . 30 The Science of Discworld . 144 Guards! Guards! . 36 The Science of Discworld II: the Globe . 145 Eric . 39 The Science of Discworld III: Darwin’s Watch . 145 Moving Pictures . 41 The Streets of Ankh-Morpork . 145 Reaper Man . 46 The Discworld Mapp . 145 Witches Abroad . 51 A Tourist Guide to Lancre . 145 Small Gods . 56 Death’s Domain . 145 Lords and Ladies . 63 4 Other Annotations 147 Men at Arms . 70 Good Omens . 147 Soul Music . 77 Strata . 154 Interesting Times . 86 The Dark Side of the Sun . 154 Maskerade . 89 Truckers . 155 Feet of Clay . 92 Diggers . 156 Hogfather . 99 Wings . 157 Jingo . 106 Only You Can Save Mankind . 157 The Last Continent . 112 Johnny and the Dead . 158 Carpe Jugulum . 118 Johnny and the Bomb . 160 The Fifth Elephant . 124 The Carpet People . 161 The Truth . 125 The Unadulterated Cat . 161 Thief of Time . 128 The Last Hero . 129 5 Thoughts and Themes 163 The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents 131 The Turtle Moves! . 163 Night Watch . 132 Song. 164 3 The Annotated Pratchett File . and Dance . 165 Reverse Annotations . 165 Words from the Master . 166 6 Editorial Comments 177 The Origin of the APF . 177 Version history and Timeline . 177 Credits . 178 Page Numbers . 178 To Annotate or Not to Annotate . 179 The APF in Other Formats . 179 Third-party Annotations . 180 Bibliography . 180 Copying the APF . 180 Copyright Discussion . 180 4 CHAPTER 1 Preface to v9.0 This is the first ‘real’ release of the Annotated Pratchett File since the v7a.0 release of 16 June 1996. Back then, I apologised for the eighteen months that had passed between v7.0 and v7a.0, and I promised I would do better next time. Um, yes. Apologising again, but now for the eight years that have passed between v7a.0 and this v9.0, seems a bit pointless. Let me instead just thank all you APF readers for your patience, your submissions, your corrections, and your offers to help. In all those eight years the flow of supportive words and emails and Usenet messages never once dried up, and I doubt if I could ever express adequately enough how motivating and helpful that has been. Having learned my lesson, I will make no promises or predictions this time with respect to future releases of the APF, but my honest intention is for v9.0 to signal the start of a period of steady APF development on all fronts: annotation content, World Wide Web version, typeset version — everything. In a sense I still consider v9.0 an ‘intermediate’ version, and I have Plans for major improvements all over. We will just have to see how (and when!) it all plays out; for now I hope that v9.0 will be a welcome milestone, of sufficient quality to make sure everybody is once again willing to come along on the next leg of the trip. Leo Breebaart Delft, August 2004 5 The Annotated Pratchett File 6 PREFACE TO V9.0 CHAPTER 2 Introduction You are now reading the 9th edition of the Annotated APF versions appeared more frequently, but has since Pratchett File, or APF for short. For information about become a lot less meaningful. We are sticking to the what is new or changed in v9.0 with respect to previous practice for now, on account of tradition. editions I refer you to the new Version History and The APF incorporates, in this edition once again more Timeline section in the Editorial Comments chapter. than ever before, many passages from articles that Terry Ever since its creation in 1992, one of the most popular himself has posted to alt.fan.pratchett. As a long time pastimes on the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett has active contributor to the group, he often provides inside been discussing the many jokes, parodies, allusions and information on many aspects of his writing, and it would references with which Terry Pratchett seasons his work. be a waste to let this first-hand knowledge just disappear Since, as Terry once put it, “alt.fan.pratchett as an into Usenet history. Much of this material has been entity has the attention span of a butterfly on cocaine”, it incorporated into the annotations themselves, but quite a quickly became clear that it would be a good idea to distil bit of interesting information that did not fit anywhere some of these discussions into something with a little else has been collected in the Thoughts and Themes more persistence and staying power than individual chapter. Usenet articles (remember that this all took place long The APF ends with the already mentioned Editorial before something like Google Groups — or indeed even Comments chapter, where various nuts & bolts of the the World Wide Web itself — existed!). And so the editing process are discussed. It also lists information to Annotated Pratchett File was born, and (because I was help you obtain the most recent version of the APF in brave or foolish enough to volunteer) I became its editor. whatever format you prefer. Over the years the APF has grown in popularity and size. One particular piece of technical information is so It now contains nearly two thousand annotations, and is important I am placing it here as well as at the end, and available in a number of different formats. Yet it is still that is the address to write to if you have any (and if I can help it will always be) called a ‘file’, suggestions, questions, corrections, or new annotations. reflecting its origin as a short text file that I regularly Without the enthusiastic reactions and input from its posted to alt.fan.pratchett. readers, the APF would never have survived so far. Please The structure of the APF is straightforward, with the mail all your feedback to me at: annotations divided into two large chapters: the [email protected] Discworld Annotations, and all the Other Annotations. Within each group, the books are listed in the order in and maybe you will see your contribution become a part which they were published (with the exception that in the of the next edition. I will now leave you to the Discworld chapter the proper novels come before the annotations, and end this introduction with a thought that secondary material such as the maps and the Science of is a bit of a cliché but nonetheless true: I hope you will Discworld books). Within each book, the annotations are enjoy reading the APF as much as I have enjoyed putting sorted in ascending order by page number, with that it together. number referring to the edition I actually own myself, which will typically be the original UK hardcover edition. (Some of the earlier books also list paperback page numbers — for more information please read the Page Numbers section in the Editorial Comments chapter.) Each annotation is prefixed by either a ‘+’, denoting an annotation that is new or has been significantly updated in this version of the APF, or a ‘–’, denoting an unchanged older annotation. This used to be quite handy when new 7 The Annotated Pratchett File 8 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 3 Discworld Annotations Ankh-Morpork and The Discworld Companion we are The Colour of Magic shown an illustration of the Ankh-Morpork coat of arms, which does feature a Morepork/owl holding an ankh. But from Terry’s remarks (see next annotation) I feel it’s safe – [ p. 7/7 ] “[. ] He stares fixedly at the Destination.” to say that neither bird nor cross were explicitly on his This line is interesting not only because it foreshadows mind when he first came up with the name The Light Fantastic (as in fact the entire prologue does), Ankh-Morpork. but also because it is about the only time the narrator Finally, many readers have mentioned the resonance that really commits himself to A’Tuin’s gender without Ankh-Morpork has with our world’s Budapest: also a hedging his bets (as e.g. on the first page of The Light large city made up of two smaller cities (Buda and Pest) Fantastic). Note the capital ‘H’, which Death also rates in separated by a river. this book and loses in the later ones. – [ p. 9/9 ] “[. ] two figures were watching with – [ p. 8/8 ] “For example, what was A’Tuin’s actual sex?” considerable interest.” I have had email from a herpetologist who has studied The two barbarians, Bravd and Weasel, are parodies of under one of the world’s experts on turtles, and he Fritz Leiber’s fantasy heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. assures me that in real life determining the sex of turtles The Swords series of books in which they star are is no easy task. Unlike mammals, reptiles don’t have their absolute classics, and have probably had about as much naughty bits hanging out where they can be easily seen, influence on the genre as Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.
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