| Tour de France [message #301782] |
Mi, 19 Juli 2006 21:04 |
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Has a bicycle race ever figured in a Terry Pratchett novel?
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| Re: Tour de France [message #301788 ] |
Mi, 19 Juli 2006 21:25 |
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On 2006-07-19 14:04:30 -0500, "MyPostingID" <MyPostingID [at] gmail.com> said:
> Has a bicycle race ever figured in a Terry Pratchett novel?
A street of light will screem, the black chariot of the Serpente will
flayme, and a Queene wille sing quickfilveres songes no moar.
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The short answer is "Yes." The long answer is "No."
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| Re: Tour de France [message #301791 ] |
Mi, 19 Juli 2006 21:37 |
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The time: 19 Jul 2006. The place: alt.fan.pratchett. The
speaker: =?UTF-8?B?UmVuw6k=?= <Kar98 [at] The-Coalition.US>
> On 2006-07-19 14:04:30 -0500, "MyPostingID"
> <MyPostingID [at] gmail.com> said:
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>> Has a bicycle race ever figured in a Terry Pratchett
>> novel?
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> A street of light will screem, the black chariot of the
> Serpente will flayme, and a Queene wille sing quickfilveres
> songes no moar.
Good one.
Beyond that, no. Pterry's made vague references here
suggesting the bicycle may have been invented on the Disc
recently, but nothing's appeared in the novels.
(The excercise bike was invented by Leonard of Quirm in Men At
Arms, but you can't race exercise bikes, especially since he
only built one...)
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Dave
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"If being stuck in a swamp with Christine Hamilton
is 'reality', pass the mind-altering drugs."
-Humphrey Lyttelton, "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue"
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| Re: Tour de France [message #301823 ] |
Do, 20 Juli 2006 00:07 |
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MyPostingID wrote:
> Has a bicycle race ever figured in a Terry Pratchett novel?
Dunno, but thought I would mention that the bike race in "The Triplets
of Belleville" is my favourite.
-Rock
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Remember Raccoon's Law: "Nothing is ever always anything."
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| Re: Tour de France [message #301898 ] |
Do, 20 Juli 2006 19:31 |
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From the Collected Witterings of Daibhid Ceanaideach, volume 23:
> (The excercise bike was invented by Leonard of Quirm in Men At
> Arms, but you can't race exercise bikes, especially since he
> only built one...)
Two, I thought? They were incorporated into the Boat.
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| Re: -I- Tour de France [message #301911 ] |
Do, 20 Juli 2006 21:04 |
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The time: 20 Jul 2006. The place: alt.fan.pratchett. The
speaker: "David Chapman" <jedit_ojanen8 [at] hotmail.com>
> From the Collected Witterings of Daibhid Ceanaideach,
> volume 23:
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>> (The excercise bike was invented by Leonard of Quirm in
>> Men At Arms, but you can't race exercise bikes, especially
>> since he only built one...)
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> Two, I thought? They were incorporated into the Boat.
I hadn't thought of it that way, but yes.
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Dave
Official Absentee of EU Skiffeysoc
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/sesoc
"If being stuck in a swamp with Christine Hamilton
is 'reality', pass the mind-altering drugs."
-Humphrey Lyttelton, "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue"
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| [R] Bicycles (was Re: -I- Tour de France) [message #301939 ] |
Do, 20 Juli 2006 22:31 |
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In a speech called Xns9806CC266FDFCdaibhid [at] 130.133.1.4,
Daibhid Ceanaideach (daibhidchenedelh [at] aol.com) spake thusly:
> The time: 20 Jul 2006. The place: alt.fan.pratchett. The
> speaker: "David Chapman" <jedit_ojanen8 [at] hotmail.com>
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>> From the Collected Witterings of Daibhid Ceanaideach,
>> volume 23:
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>>> (The excercise bike was invented by Leonard of Quirm in
>>> Men At Arms, but you can't race exercise bikes, especially
>>> since he only built one...)
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>> Two, I thought? They were incorporated into the Boat.
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> I hadn't thought of it that way, but yes.
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Leonard says he went to look at Leshp some time ago, implying that he
built the Boat before he began his extended stay at Vetinari's. The
exercise bike which is seen in Leonard's cell is clearly, from
Vetinari's reaction, a new addition when we first see it. And don't
forget that Leonard's drawings of bicycles have been in circulation
long enough for Rincewind to have seen them before Sourcery - between
Sourcery and Eric he was in the Dungeon Dimensions, between Eric and
IT he was marooned on a desert island (what happened to Eric,
anyway?), and he mentions that he "once saw something in Leonard da
Quirm's notebooks" when Twoflower tells him of the theory that history
goes in cycles.
So ISTM that Leonard has been sketching bicycles for ages, but only
built a few, at least two of which he removed the wheels from and
installed on the Boat, and another much later that he didn't build the
front wheel for.
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| Re: Tour de France [message #302088 ] |
Fr, 21 Juli 2006 14:02 |
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:37:53 +0000, Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:
> (The excercise bike was invented by Leonard of Quirm in Men At
> Arms, but you can't race exercise bikes, especially since he
> only built one...)
You've not seen my niece on a rocking duck (30 odd years old, her Daddy's
at her age). She can race anything ;)
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Kind regards,
Julian Hall
"I'm only on the planet because I missed the bus home"
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