multiple agneses
hmm... what's the plural of Agnes.
Anyway Lancre needs a post so here's a discussion point for starters:
Compare and contrast Agnes Device (of Good Omens) and Agnes Nitt (of Lancre).
I think there's a few similarities there, put they'er not quite the same character.. maybe Miss Device was a prototype for Miss Nitt.
....talking about prototypes, I also think that the werewolf in Reaper Man (I think she was mrs cake's daughter) was a (failed) prototype for Angua.... but perhaps that should be discussed in A-M?... I don't know how strict we want to be on this sort of thing... I'd recommend 'not very'
We're not strict about much at all, in our other forum we (*cough* Grim *cough*) strayed from a vampire debate to french class. If a forum is terribly out of place we can move it, but somehtings over lap and it can't be helped.
Good, theory, with the prototypes. I've just started Good Omens and I'll actually be able to post an intelligent comment when I'm done.
Scarlet Phoenix Patrician
Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(8/29/02 8:04 pm) Reply
Re: multiple agneses
SPF has my copy of Good Omens which I will need to read again (or at least significant parts) in order to make an intelligent post. If she ever finishes it...
And we are NOT strict. And, despite what SPF may say- I am not the only one who gets off track.
Commandress of the City Watch
(12/28/02 9:48 pm) Reply
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Mrs. Cake's daughter could very well have been an 'early version' of Angua. That's quite an interesting observation (now that I finally read Reaper Man ^_^). I wonder how many other characters we could find connections to? I'll think about that one.
Mrs Grim
"I'm just here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum."
--Yu-gi-oh
squirel52 Out of mind, be back... sometime
(2/10/03 11:38 pm) Reply
Re: multiple agneses
has mrs cake actually re-appeared in any book since reaper man?
i know she starred (barely) in the discworld computer game (neat little game, if u guys can find it u should give it a go, its got mst of the characters u ever meet on the disc - even CMOT dibbler - why is it we never talk about him, or even the collection of dibblers) but i have no reccolection of anything else with her in it.....maybe we should petition TP to weave her into one of his other boks
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robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(2/11/03 4:49 pm) Reply
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I'm sure she has been mentioned in other books... I just can't think where. In my DW Companion it doesn't say what books she's appeared in, which tends to imply she's in at least three.
I think Angua has/had lodgings in her house, along with various other undead.
rob, trying to think hard
squirel52 Out of mind, be back... sometime
(2/11/03 11:35 pm) Reply
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ahh.. that would explain u'r eternal fountain of DW wisdom.... i never got around to buying the discworld companion, so most of what i post is poor attempts to remember what i read 2 or maybe 3 years ago.
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This little pig stayed home
This little pig ate raw and steaming human flesh
This little piggy violated virgins
And this little pig clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top
robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(2/12/03 4:31 pm) Reply
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hmph. i resent the implication that I merely pretend to be a fount of DW wisdom
In all honesty, I don't look at it very often, but it is useful to check facts against now and again. The main source of my knowledge is the fact that I have probably read each book about twice every three years since they were published. But I am a mere trickle compared to some people i've met... the sort of people who can write things like the DW Companion and the UU Challenge.
The companion is a very interesting read in itself. It collects up lots of titbits from the books which you may not of noticed, and also has new details in. William de Worde was mentioned in the first edition several years before TT was published.
I'd suggest you buy it, if you are ever feeling deprived of fresh pratchett... but wait a little while as a third edition is due out any time now (to be precise its due out at the end of a month. which month I'm not sure... its probably feb or march... but might be as late as june)
Its a more worthwhile purchase than the diaries (unless you need a diary) which IMHO are only of use for browsing when you have five minutes to spare in a book shop, or buying for a quid in the post new year Great Callender/Diary Sale.
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