Talk:Bursar

Is this any sort of allusion to this guy? []

I can't see much resemblance... Also, note that we got the current Bursar's full name very late in the series, so the character's likely not created with a real-world Dinwiddie in mind. --Vsl 02:04, 12 May 2006 (CEST)

Pratchett got the name from a fan by the name of Dinwiddy who wrote to him

Was he in Mort? 99.238.41.80 17:43, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

That would be either Spelter or the previous non-Wizard. --Old Dickens 23:15, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

On at least one occasion, the Bursar went through the previous day... backwards - there is a school of thought in quantum physics that strongly implies that for the maths to make sense, there has to be a parellel universe where everything that happens in this universe is mirrored - only backwards.... this is apparently necessary for balance and elegance. The Bursar, as we know, is one of only two wizards who fully undestands Quantum and its implications, the other being Ponder Stibbons. Therefore a lot of the Bursar's bizarre verbal outbursts, a sort of Quantum Tourettes, would make perfect sense to a theoretical physicist. --AgProv 08:59, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

TV spoof sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf builds on this idea with its "Backward Universe" episodes, together with a very large half of one of the novelisations.