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Giamo Casanunda
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| Count Casanunda | |
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| Name | Giamo Casanunda |
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| Race | Dwarf |
| Occupation | World's 2nd Greatest Lover, swordsman, liar, soldier of fortune, stepladder repairer |
| Looks | 3'9" high, wears powdered wigs, lace and satin |
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| Death | |
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| Marital Status | |
| Books | Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies |
| Cameos | |
According to his card, he's
...and three-feet-nine in his high-heeled boots. He is the most unusual Dwarf on the Discworld, including Carrot Ironfoundersson, who's deep-down conservative by comparison, and he's human. Casanunda rejects the work ethic, the reserve, the conformity of the Dwarfs and dons a character built on Dick Turpin, Casanova and Pépé Le Pew. He has immense confidence in his abilities as a highwayman and all kinds of swordsman, and sometimes it's even rewarded (the Queen of Skund made him a Count; just ask him). Count Casanunda walks tall, dreams big and rides a big horse... with the aid of his trusty stepladder. He appears in Witches Abroad and Lords and Ladies, usually playing against Nanny Ogg. He even tried to seduce Nanny with such haute cuisine as could be found at the Goat and Bush. This is pretty much like throwing rocks at a tank, but as he says, he may be only the second-greatest, but he tries harder.
Annotations
"Casanunda" is a dwarvish take on "Casanova"
Shedding more light on one of those Well-Known Facts.
Without being erm, indelicate, it is appropriate to note here that there has always been a sub-genre within pornography featuring "people of restricted growth". This is an area that features dwarf men far more than women, as the physical condition which creates dwarf stature tends to act on the limbs, whilst leaving the genitalia as they would be on a normally proportioned human being. Therefore dwarf men appear, by this hopefully compensating quirk of Nature, to be abnomally well endowed, even over-proportioned for their size: it's a sort of optical illusion which has been frequently exploited by the adult film/magazine industry.
Robert Anton Wilson has a character called Markoff Chaney, a.k.a. the Midget, who is Casanunda's spiritual cousin in the Illuminatus! universe.
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