Hasn't he *met* the patrician in the last book? If it's the same Mr. Pony anyways.
The 'Right to Roam', while mocked in this book, is one of the most hard-fought rights of the British peoples, a right which came about because there wasn't a bit of land unowned by someone, and thus people who wanted to go for a walk up a nearby mountain would find that they would be arrested for trespassing. This right was hard fought for, and included several instances of mass-trespassing by communists during the 30s.
I think that Pratchett is trying to do some Third Wave Feminism WRT dating but he's swung and missed when it comes to this plotline. Like, he's heard the talk about a bunch of Third Wave topics (Angua is stuck in second wave in a lot of ways, and thus she's the stick-in-the-mud here) but he's not quite sure how to impliment them....
And he's not a woman so he's got some colossally wrong axioms about dating on display here.
I don't think there's any way to deny the crowds what they want that perfectly ignores the fact that you're compelling them to do things, by force, trickery or threats.
I mean, it really does write in zero-gravity, and it has been used by both Roscosmos and NASA. And contrary to popular myth, it wasn't developed in a fit of wasteful government excess.
How to make one: Get six slices of bacon, one leaf of lettuce (small) and one cherry tomato, cut into slices. Sandwitch all ingredients between bread, eat.
Bluenose is also a famous fishing and racing schooner from the early 20th century, undefeatable for almost 20 years, and commemorated in a 1929 stamp. The original, stripped of masts and shipping bananas in the Caribbean, was wrecked in 1946, but a replica, Bluenose II, sails to this day.
I don't think the seasons match up-this is late spring or early summer, and there was mention of Frost in the last book-and I got a feeling it was autumnal.
JUL QVQ LBH CBFG GUNG? JUL??? NER LBH-QB LBH-? BS NYY GUR QNEXF LBH PBHYQ VAIBXR BA GUVF JROFVGR-NAQ VG'F TBVAT GB ZNXR UHAQERQF BS PBCVRF BS VGFRYS, NAQ FGBER VGFRYS VA PNPUR VA CRBCYR'F PBZCHGREF!
The two epigraphs are very distinct, and very old. The one by dwarfs is a mythological record, one that condems both humans and trolls-but trolls are added after the fact, and denounced more strongly. The troll one is different-it doesn't mention anyone but Him who is Diamond. Oh, and it's a hundred times older than human history on Roundworld. A reminder that Trolls look forward onto a vast history beyond our comprehension.
Do you think the Times has a Dwarf-language edition? Or one in troll pictograms?
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