Book:Feet of Clay/Annotations - Revision history

AgProv at 21:21, 13 March 2015

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	And in TV sci-fi spoof '''''Red Dwarf''''', the android Kryten, when demobilised for repair, has his "personality and conscience chips" located in his head. Crewmate Dave Lister is seen to flip Kryten's head open, prop it up on a pull-out support strut as if it were a car's bonnet, and remove the chips from an inert Android. Shades of Vetinari and Mr Pump: he then reprograms the conscience chip so that Kryten is disinhibited from following an ethically dubious course of action. Lister is reprogramming Kryten's "chem" equivalent.		And in TV sci-fi spoof '''''Red Dwarf''''', the android Kryten, when demobilised for repair, has his "personality and conscience chips" located in his head. Crewmate Dave Lister is seen to flip Kryten's head open, prop it up on a pull-out support strut as if it were a car's bonnet, and remove the chips from an inert Android. Shades of Vetinari and Mr Pump: he then reprograms the conscience chip so that Kryten is disinhibited from following an ethically dubious course of action. Lister is reprogramming Kryten's "chem" equivalent.

			Dorfl's willingness to debate religion "with the priest of the most worthy God" has much the same effect as rolling a golden apple inscribed with "to the most beautiful" in a room-ful of Goddesses. The priests fall to fighting among themselves and Dorfl is disregarded.

Old Dickens: fix link

2014-12-10T01:43:41Z

fix link

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	''Cows should go "Moo"''.... Fred Colon may well be foreshadowing ''Where's My Cow?'' here as quite a lot of them go astray in the big city... also in American sitcom '''''Everybody Loves Raymond''''', in an episode screened maybe four years after publication of FoC, we have a possible [[Reverse ~~Annotation~~]]. Sergeant Robert Barone of the New York Police Department has a similar sort of misadventure with a loose bull called Nestor, part of an illegal rodeo show whose animals escape and cause havoc on the NY streets. Nestor proceeds to gore him in "the upper thigh". (Terry loves to create Watch references to other fictional police forces in literature and TV - although this ''may'' be a case of TV taking the idea from him. Robert Barone is a police sergeant with nineteen years' service, hitherto unwounded on duty, who can legitimately retire on full pension after twenty. Hmm.)		''Cows should go "Moo"''.... Fred Colon may well be foreshadowing ''Where's My Cow?'' here as quite a lot of them go astray in the big city... also in American sitcom '''''Everybody Loves Raymond''''', in an episode screened maybe four years after publication of FoC, we have a possible [[Reverse Annotations\|reverse annotation]]. Sergeant Robert Barone of the New York Police Department has a similar sort of misadventure with a loose bull called Nestor, part of an illegal rodeo show whose animals escape and cause havoc on the NY streets. Nestor proceeds to gore him in "the upper thigh". (Terry loves to create Watch references to other fictional police forces in literature and TV - although this ''may'' be a case of TV taking the idea from him. Robert Barone is a police sergeant with nineteen years' service, hitherto unwounded on duty, who can legitimately retire on full pension after twenty. Hmm.)

	And the boar Fred encounters a little further down the page could have drawn the Hogfather's sleigh.		And the boar Fred encounters a little further down the page could have drawn the Hogfather's sleigh.

AgProv: The origin of the book's title

2014-12-09T09:44:04Z

The origin of the book's title

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			''This great image, whose splendor [was] excellent, stood before you; and its form [was] awesome. This image's head [was] of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces."

			(The Bible: ''Book of Daniel'', 2:32)


	'''Corgi paperback p34:''' Detritus is questioned, although half-heartedly so, by Vimes over an allegation of Watch brutality. Detritus denies knowledge of an incident in which a criminal troll is nailed to a wall by his ears. (although later he feels a need to conceal a hammer which the small-minded might see as connected). Compare this to a sketch in ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', in which small-time criminal Vince Snetterton-Lewis admits to having been nailed - by his ear - to a small occasional coffee table for annoying the dreaded crimelord Dinsdale Piranha.		'''Corgi paperback p34:''' Detritus is questioned, although half-heartedly so, by Vimes over an allegation of Watch brutality. Detritus denies knowledge of an incident in which a criminal troll is nailed to a wall by his ears. (although later he feels a need to conceal a hammer which the small-minded might see as connected). Compare this to a sketch in ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', in which small-time criminal Vince Snetterton-Lewis admits to having been nailed - by his ear - to a small occasional coffee table for annoying the dreaded crimelord Dinsdale Piranha.

AgProv: Revising the Raymond reference - possibly a reverse annotation, as there are many suspicious similarities to Fred colon's predicament.

2014-12-09T09:29:37Z

Revising the Raymond reference - possibly a reverse annotation, as there are many suspicious similarities to Fred colon's predicament.

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	''Cows should go "Moo"''.... Fred Colon may well be foreshadowing ''Where's My Cow?'' here as quite a lot of them go astray in the ~~bbig~~ city... also in American sitcom '''''Everybody Loves Raymond''''' ~~at around this time~~, Sergeant Robert Barone of the New York Police Department has a similar sort of misadventure with a loose bull called Nestor, ~~which gores~~ him in "the upper thigh". (~~Q - does this predate the book?~~ Terry loves to create Watch references to other fictional police forces in literature and TV). And the boar Fred encounters a little further down the page could have drawn the Hogfather's sleigh.		''Cows should go "Moo"''.... Fred Colon may well be foreshadowing ''Where's My Cow?'' here as quite a lot of them go astray in the big city... also in American sitcom '''''Everybody Loves Raymond''''', in an episode screened maybe four years after publication of FoC, we have a possible [[Reverse Annotation]]. Sergeant Robert Barone of the New York Police Department has a similar sort of misadventure with a loose bull called Nestor, part of an illegal rodeo show whose animals escape and cause havoc on the NY streets. Nestor proceeds to gore him in "the upper thigh". (Terry loves to create Watch references to other fictional police forces in literature and TV - although this ''may'' be a case of TV taking the idea from him. Robert Barone is a police sergeant with nineteen years' service, hitherto unwounded on duty, who can legitimately retire on full pension after twenty. Hmm.)

			And the boar Fred encounters a little further down the page could have drawn the Hogfather's sleigh.

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AgProv at 19:45, 7 December 2014

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	And in Roundworld heraldry, a whole category of shield designs are called "furs" and are usually assigned to nobility. [http://www.oshel.com/symbols.htm This website] states these are depicted as an abstract representation of the fur of the weasel, an alternative name for which in heraldry is the '''''ermine'''''. Perhaps in Discworld heraldry, the vermine (that selfish little bastard that will do anything so as not to part with its own fur) occupies this niche?		And in Roundworld heraldry, a whole category of shield designs are called "furs" and are usually assigned to nobility. [http://www.oshel.com/symbols.htm This website] states these are depicted as an abstract representation of the fur of the weasel, an alternative name for which in heraldry is the '''''ermine'''''. Perhaps in Discworld heraldry, the vermine (that selfish little bastard that will do anything so as not to part with its own fur) occupies this niche?

			'''Gollancz hardback p77:'''
			''You are armigerous, Nobby''. ''Armigerous'' is a social disease, passed down the family line and therefore hereditary, contagious in the right circumstances from carriers who do not know they have it, and which may be cured by application of remedies to the head and neck...

	'''Gollancz hardback p177:'''		'''Gollancz hardback p177:'''

AgProv: long-term consequences.

2014-12-07T19:40:40Z

long-term consequences.

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	And in Roundworld heraldry, a whole category of shield designs are called "furs" and are usually assigned to nobility. [http://www.oshel.com/symbols.htm This website] states these are depicted as an abstract representation of the fur of the weasel, an alternative name for which in heraldry is the '''''ermine'''''. Perhaps in Discworld heraldry, the vermine (that selfish little bastard that will do anything so as not to part with its own fur) occupies this niche?		And in Roundworld heraldry, a whole category of shield designs are called "furs" and are usually assigned to nobility. [http://www.oshel.com/symbols.htm This website] states these are depicted as an abstract representation of the fur of the weasel, an alternative name for which in heraldry is the '''''ermine'''''. Perhaps in Discworld heraldry, the vermine (that selfish little bastard that will do anything so as not to part with its own fur) occupies this niche?

			'''Gollancz hardback p177:'''
			''Nothing beats an Earl except a Duke, and we haven't got one of them.'' Fred Colon is again Foreshadowing. In the next Watch book, {{J}}, Sam Vimes is advanced to the rank of Duke. Partly as a back-handed reward, partly as a gift from Vetinari to Lady Sybil to advance ''her'' to ''primus inter pares'' among Ankh-Morpork's society ladies - but mainly, one suspects, to ensure the top rank in the city's nobility is firmly filled, with a man Vetinari can largely rely on, and that there isn't a job vacancy anybody else could exploit to their own ends.

	'''Corgi paperback p284:'''		'''Corgi paperback p284:'''

AgProv: tidying and adding

2014-12-03T12:32:50Z

tidying and adding

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	''Right now, I'd swear in a gorgon.'' More foreshadowing: by {{UA}}, ~~vimes~~ has indeed recruited a [[Gorgon]] constable.		''Right now, I'd swear in a gorgon.'' More foreshadowing: by {{UA}}, Vimes has indeed recruited a [[Gorgon]] constable.


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	There are resemblances to the "Terminator II" movie as well:		There are resemblances to the "Terminator II" movie as well:
	* Like a T-800, Model 101, you can open the heads of the [[golem\|golems]], and get the CPU / [[chem]] out and put it back in; in the meantime, the terminator / golem is deactivated		* Like a T-800, Model 101, you can open the heads of the [[golem\|golems]], and get the CPU / [[chem]] out and put it back in; in the meantime, the terminator / golem is deactivated;
	* In the pursuit of [[Wee Mad Arthur]] and [[Fred Colon]], [[Meshugah]] is being shattered, but rebuilds himself like the T-1000		* In the pursuit of [[Wee Mad Arthur]] and [[Fred Colon]], [[Meshugah]] is being shattered, but rebuilds himself like the T-1000
	* The inability of humans, dwarfs, and even Wee Mad Arthur - he doesn't even try it! - to stop Meshugah		* The inability of humans, dwarfs, and even Wee Mad Arthur - he doesn't even try it! - to stop Meshugah;
	* The fight between Meshugah and [[Dorfl]], right to the point when the "dead" Dorfl comes suddenly alive again and kills Meshugah with a fatal blow into the head		* The fight between Meshugah and [[Dorfl]], right to the point when the "dead" Dorfl comes suddenly alive again and kills Meshugah with a fatal blow into the head;
	* The location of the fight: An industrial workplace (Ankh-Morpork style), even with a big basin / trough filled with a molten, lethal liquid in it		* The location of the fight: An industrial workplace (Ankh-Morpork style), even with a big basin / trough filled with a molten, lethal liquid in it.

			And in TV sci-fi spoof '''''Red Dwarf''''', the android Kryten, when demobilised for repair, has his "personality and conscience chips" located in his head. Crewmate Dave Lister is seen to flip Kryten's head open, prop it up on a pull-out support strut as if it were a car's bonnet, and remove the chips from an inert Android. Shades of Vetinari and Mr Pump: he then reprograms the conscience chip so that Kryten is disinhibited from following an ethically dubious course of action. Lister is reprogramming Kryten's "chem" equivalent.

AgProv: tidying

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tidying

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	''Cows should go "Moo"''.... Fred Colon may well be foreshadowing ''Where's My Cow?'' here as quite a lot of them go astray in the bbig city... also in American sitcom ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' at around this time, Sergeant Robert Barone of the New York Police Department has a similar sort of misadventure with a loose bull called Nestor, which gores him in "the upper thigh". (Q - does this predate the book? Terry loves to create Watch references to other fictional police forces in literature and TV). And the boar Fred encounters a little further down the page could have drawn the Hogfather's sleigh.		''Cows should go "Moo"''.... Fred Colon may well be foreshadowing ''Where's My Cow?'' here as quite a lot of them go astray in the bbig city... also in American sitcom '''''Everybody Loves Raymond''''' at around this time, Sergeant Robert Barone of the New York Police Department has a similar sort of misadventure with a loose bull called Nestor, which gores him in "the upper thigh". (Q - does this predate the book? Terry loves to create Watch references to other fictional police forces in literature and TV). And the boar Fred encounters a little further down the page could have drawn the Hogfather's sleigh.

	'''Gollancz hardback p242:'''		'''Gollancz hardback p242:'''
	Wee Mad Arthur demands there be "no welching" on his promised dollar for Watch service. Given the origins of the Roundworld slang "no welching" - an ethnic slur on the Welsh - should he have really said "no Llamedosing"?		Wee Mad Arthur demands there be "no welching" on his promised dollar for Watch service. Given the origins of the Roundworld slang "no welching" - an ethnic slur on the Welsh - should he have really said "no Llamedosing"?

	'''Gollancz hardback p245:'''		'''Gollancz hardback p245:'''
	''Right now, I'd swear in a gorgon.'' ~~more~~ foreshadowing: by {{UA}}, vimes has indeed recruited a [[Gorgon]] constable.		''Right now, I'd swear in a gorgon.'' More foreshadowing: by {{UA}}, vimes has indeed recruited a [[Gorgon]] constable.

AgProv: A few little items

2014-12-03T12:25:08Z

A few little items

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	Literally anything? A subtle detail here is that in the text, the word {{death\|Freedom}}is in the sort of capital letters and type only usually used by [[Death]]. This line is also an allusion to the Doorway Dilemma parodied in {{LL}} by Ponder Stibbons, Casanunder and Ridcully - two doors, only one of which leads to freedom (the other to death), guarded by two men, one of whom will lie and the other will tell truth...		Literally anything? A subtle detail here is that in the text, the word {{death\|Freedom}}is in the sort of capital letters and type only usually used by [[Death]]. This line is also an allusion to the Doorway Dilemma parodied in {{LL}} by Ponder Stibbons, Casanunder and Ridcully - two doors, only one of which leads to freedom (the other to death), guarded by two men, one of whom will lie and the other will tell truth...

			'''Gollancz hardback p236:'''
			''Cows should go "Moo"''.... Fred Colon may well be foreshadowing ''Where's My Cow?'' here as quite a lot of them go astray in the bbig city... also in American sitcom ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' at around this time, Sergeant Robert Barone of the New York Police Department has a similar sort of misadventure with a loose bull called Nestor, which gores him in "the upper thigh". (Q - does this predate the book? Terry loves to create Watch references to other fictional police forces in literature and TV). And the boar Fred encounters a little further down the page could have drawn the Hogfather's sleigh.

			'''Gollancz hardback p242:'''
			Wee Mad Arthur demands there be "no welching" on his promised dollar for Watch service. Given the origins of the Roundworld slang "no welching" - an ethnic slur on the Welsh - should he have really said "no Llamedosing"?

			'''Gollancz hardback p245:'''
			''Right now, I'd swear in a gorgon.'' more foreshadowing: by {{UA}}, vimes has indeed recruited a [[Gorgon]] constable.




	'''Corgi paperback p328:'''		'''Corgi paperback p328:'''

AgProv: correcting another of those annoying single-letter typos that I keep meaning to do something about but invariably forget to put right. There. Done.

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correcting another of those annoying single-letter typos that I keep meaning to do something about but invariably forget to put right. There. Done.

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	'''Corgi paperback p34:''' Detritus is questioned, although half-heartedly so, by Vimes over an allegation of Watch brutality. ~~detritus~~ denies knowledge of an incident in which a criminal troll is nailed to a wall by his ears. (although later he feels a need to conceal a hammer which the small-minded might see as connected). Compare this to a sketch in ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', in which small-time criminal Vince Snetterton-Lewis admits to having been nailed to a small occasional coffee table for annoying the dreaded crimelord Dinsdale Piranha.		'''Corgi paperback p34:''' Detritus is questioned, although half-heartedly so, by Vimes over an allegation of Watch brutality. Detritus denies knowledge of an incident in which a criminal troll is nailed to a wall by his ears. (although later he feels a need to conceal a hammer which the small-minded might see as connected). Compare this to a sketch in ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', in which small-time criminal Vince Snetterton-Lewis admits to having been nailed - by his ear - to a small occasional coffee table for annoying the dreaded crimelord Dinsdale Piranha.

	'''Corgi paperback p41-42:''' Apparently, it wasn't Daphne, the current city morpork, who appears on the City Watch badge. It's Olive, her great-grandmother. And [[Pardessus Chatain Pursuivant]] ought to know. As some of the the City Watch badges - specifically badge number 177, that issued to Sam Vimes - have been continually in circulation since King [[Veltrick I]] founded the watch some four hundred years previously - morporks must be very long-lived birds indeed. Either that, or it's History Monks again.		'''Corgi paperback p41-42:''' Apparently, it wasn't Daphne, the current city morpork, who appears on the City Watch badge. It's Olive, her great-grandmother. And [[Pardessus Chatain Pursuivant]] ought to know. As some of the the City Watch badges - specifically badge number 177, that issued to Sam Vimes - have been continually in circulation since King [[Veltrick I]] founded the watch some four hundred years previously - morporks must be very long-lived birds indeed. Either that, or it's History Monks again.