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Main Discworld Discussion
There's a book where a rogue "Or up here?" appears in a margin, then about two pages later a character starts throwing their voice. Nice typographical pun, can't for the life of me remember which book. Any help?
- Remeber that one year in Discworld is 800 days thus Windle Poons who lived to 130 Discworld years on our calender lived to be almost 300 years old.
- Mike Rosoft: I am not removing this yet, but I believe that whenever a year is mentioned in the book, it's probably an "agricultural year" of 400 days.
I was wondering: excluding the famous battle cry in Wee Free Men are there any more poems/rhymes in any of the Discworld books? Any help would be much appreciated. thx
Why is Fetish Fuel/Discworld locked, anyway? Was there an Edit War about Carcer and Teatime being mentioned or something?
Removing natter:
- Uh... what exactly verse of The Hedgehog Song
is "oblique"?
- It's oblique because in the books you only ever hear the song referred to, you never see the lyrics. Those lyrics are creations of the fandom.
- Not all of them. Some of those words ARE published in the books, in particular the refrain "The Hedgehog can never be buggered at all" but you never hear an entire intact verse, but only snatches of it overheard by another character (usually from outside and across the street, as Nanny Ogg is belting it out so loud the deaf could probably tell the lyrics by the vibrations in the soles of their feet)
- Not sure if those actually are from the fandom itself, seeing as how we get a few lines in one of the books focusing on the Lancre Witches. I think it was Wyrd Sisters.
- Lines from the song only appear in the books as Subverted Rhymes Every Occasion or Last Second Word Swaps, when the singer interrupts himself or the narrative simply changes focus before getting to the non-oblique part. A book will mention that there is a song with the title "The hedgehog cannot be buggered at all", and 50 pages later a drunk witch will have a snippet of dialogue like "... with a giraffe, if you stood on a stool...", and that's as close as Pratchett comes to putting the song in the book.
- It's oblique because in the books you only ever hear the song referred to, you never see the lyrics. Those lyrics are creations of the fandom.
- Uh... what exactly verse of The Hedgehog Song