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Re: UA cover - now with added spoilers

2009-11-08T04:52:44Z

I didn't, for roughly the same reason Granny Weatherwax could
keep from visualizing a pink rhinoceros. Who are Posh and
Becks?

Re: UA cover - now with removed spoilers

2009-11-08T03:19:32Z

On Nov 5, 8:21 am, Daibhid Ceanaideach <daibhidchened...@aol.com>
wrote:
Could very well be colour/color (choose one as appropriate) blindness
makes them cheaper. The extremely tiny nano-imp mentioned in TFE, I
think it was, commanded a pretty high price tag, a few hundred
dollars. So "better" imp features seem to cost extra.

Re: UA cover - now with added spoilers

2009-11-08T01:16:47Z

[snip]
Bwahahaha! Tea on the monitor.

Re: UA cover - now with added spoilers

2009-11-07T21:54:31Z

I can't check the book just now, but I'm afraid my recollection coincides
with Klaus.
Oh, yes, although I think they're both noticably brighter.
ISTR hearing somewhere that one of Girls Aloud was married to a
footballer as well.

Re: UA cover - now with added spoilers

2009-11-07T02:21:30Z

In my hardback edition, page 26. That's where Glenda first appears,
bringing the food to wizards' meeting.
Brian

Re: UA cover - now with added spoilers

2009-11-06T21:56:37Z

I spent an hour scanning the book last night and I can't find the page I
read this on. Maybe Daibh can perform his magic?
I do not mean that Juliet is meant to be built like an Amazon, she is
described as being only slightly taller than Glenda and can be used to model
dwarf fashion. More that the stereotypical footballer's wife tends to be a

Re: Review: Moving Pictures

2009-11-06T01:29:53Z

I quite liked the "banged grains", but Pterry seems to agree with you,
since it's "popcorn" in Unseen Academicals.

Re: UA cover - now with removed spoilers

2009-11-06T01:27:52Z

The former (well, both): "Most pictures were painted in colour these
days. Only really cheap imps painted in black and white, even though Otto
insisted that monochrome 'vas an artform in itself'. But *printing*
colour..."
Yep, for the printing - but since the imps are *painters*, not printers,
you also need white to mix up the greys. And, having just checked the

Re: UA cover - now with removed spoilers

2009-11-06T00:18:03Z

On 5 Nov 2009 13:21:13 GMT, an orbital mind-control laser caused
It's been a while since I've read "The Truth", but is the the
iconographs themselves, or the newspaper versions of them that are
done cheaply in black & white?
(Although the argument that B&W pictures are an artform in themselves
is at least as old as the development of color film--I can recall it

Re: UA cover - now with removed spoilers

2009-11-05T21:56:58Z

I had forgotten that... I had also forgotten to take into account that
Two Flower had brought a bit of 'alien' technology to AM and although
(once someone saw how, or even heard about it) it was clear it was done,
that does not mean that they could immediately copy it.
This reminds me of a bit in DA's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective

Re: Unseen Academicals (no spoilers)

2009-11-05T18:24:46Z

"Patrician" <ghj...@gmail.com> wrote, in alt.books.pratchett:
Certainly that last. I'm intrigued that you mention it, however,
because it suggests that you find it lacking in some of the books,
whereas I would see a sense of the absurd as intrinsic to all of them
- to Pterry's world view. Perhaps, however, it's less explicit and

Re: pratchett interview in new scientist

2009-11-05T15:36:59Z

[snip]
Wow! I didn't know that - Nature is too expensive for me nowadays (as is NS
<sigh>) but I'll check it out - thanks.

be carful

2009-11-05T14:53:30Z

I saw this site and I like it so much, I'd like to see it to learn a
lot of things
[link]

Review: Moving Pictures

2009-11-05T14:48:09Z

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The tenth Discworld book is something of a disappointment. This doesn't
have to do with the Contemptible Cover[1] of the book, but with the
characters and plot.
The story follows Victor Tugelbend, a rather lackadaisical student
wizard, as he gets swept up in "Holy Wood" fever. Essentially, the book

Re: pratchett interview in new scientist

2009-11-05T13:24:55Z

I do remember Ariadne, but only just.
Wikipedia says Daedalus is currently appearing in Nature.