A Quote Game: thread #15
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1joannasephine
And here we are, a brand new thread and a brand new quote.
“Aye myself started as a maid, you know.”
Bonus anorankh points for providing the next line of the quote too.
“Aye myself started as a maid, you know.”
Bonus anorankh points for providing the next line of the quote too.
3justjim
Ah, Mrs Whitlow putting on her airs and graces. This is as Granny 'foresees' the arrival of Esk at UU in Equal Rites, I think.
Granny's response is on the lines of "We all do.", which is telling, since Granny was able to capture the unicorn in Lords and Ladies.
Granny's response is on the lines of "We all do.", which is telling, since Granny was able to capture the unicorn in Lords and Ladies.
5joannasephine
Jim has it. And the smugness points too, so well done sir! Over to you.
6justjim
Smugness? Smugness! Yeah, probably*. Anyhoo...
AFTER ALL, he thought, HE MUST KNOW, MUSTN'T HE? IT'S NOT LIKE LINT ON YOUR JACKET OR SOMETHING...
*I'd give my leftie for an Anorankh. You just can't get them any more. Apparently you can't get the wood. (Goon show reference - not a hundred miles from Pterry's humour!)
AFTER ALL, he thought, HE MUST KNOW, MUSTN'T HE? IT'S NOT LIKE LINT ON YOUR JACKET OR SOMETHING...
*I'd give my leftie for an Anorankh. You just can't get them any more. Apparently you can't get the wood. (Goon show reference - not a hundred miles from Pterry's humour!)
11justjim
Morning all! Annie got it in one. It's Death wondering about Duck Man's duck in soul Music.
12AnnieMod
Next:
"It was hard to tell his expression under the permanently downcast mouth, but as far as she could tell she might as well have suggested that he performed a specific sex act with a small chicken."
"It was hard to tell his expression under the permanently downcast mouth, but as far as she could tell she might as well have suggested that he performed a specific sex act with a small chicken."
15joannasephine
This is Angua, failing to quite grasp the subtleties of Dwarf/tool relations, isn’t it? So … Men at Arms?
16AnnieMod
It's Angua talking with Boffo about putting a different makeup and being a different clown :) But you got the book right. So all yours.
17pinkozcat
I'm out of here; it is getting too detailed and no longer fun. No more guesses when one has to produce the book, the speaker, the circumstances and the person being spoken to then you have to know the exact answer.
I need to read all my Pratchetts again before I rejoin this thread.
I need to read all my Pratchetts again before I rejoin this thread.
19joannasephine
Sorry PinkOzCat, it was never intended to be taken that way. I'm just always curious to see if other people remember the things I do. And at iteration 15 of this game, it takes something a bit tricksy to get a challenge to go more than one or two answers.
Not sure that my offering will help or hinder, but for what it's worth:
And what did he mean about fish not having a word for water?
Not sure that my offering will help or hinder, but for what it's worth:
And what did he mean about fish not having a word for water?
20edrandrew
Aaarghhhh! This sound so familiar but can I place it? No I can't! If only to restore pinkozcat's faith in this thread I'm going to MAKE A WILD GUESS and go for (eeney meeny miney mo) Interesting Times.
21joannasephine
No, not Interesting Times.
22anatwork.k
I will admit that I too have found that the quotes are astonishingly obscure and it sometimes astonishes me that anyone is able to guess them. And some of you have an amazing recall of all the books! But yeah, after so many of them I can see how a more obvious quote is too easily guessed.
My wild guess for this quote is Small Gods although I don't think that is correct and the line sounds very familiar.
My wild guess for this quote is Small Gods although I don't think that is correct and the line sounds very familiar.
23joannasephine
No, you are absolutely correct -- it is indeed Small Gods.
Does it help if I confess that I read each new Pratchett at least twice through when I first get it, and that I must have read every one up to and including Going Postal at least half a dozen times? And I really love the fact that there are people on LibraryThing who are even more anorankhish than I am, and I have a burning desire to best them at every possible opportunity? (she says, narrowing her eyes and looking menacingly in the direction of ...)
But that is all beside the point. I'm sorry if the game hits levels so rarified that it makes some of you uncomfortable. I will sit out the next dozen or so rounds, so that there's plenty of chances for others. (Not meant to sound arrogant -- just the only thing I can think of that I can do to try and help?)
Take it away, anatwork.k!
Does it help if I confess that I read each new Pratchett at least twice through when I first get it, and that I must have read every one up to and including Going Postal at least half a dozen times? And I really love the fact that there are people on LibraryThing who are even more anorankhish than I am, and I have a burning desire to best them at every possible opportunity? (she says, narrowing her eyes and looking menacingly in the direction of ...)
But that is all beside the point. I'm sorry if the game hits levels so rarified that it makes some of you uncomfortable. I will sit out the next dozen or so rounds, so that there's plenty of chances for others. (Not meant to sound arrogant -- just the only thing I can think of that I can do to try and help?)
Take it away, anatwork.k!
24MrsLee
Hmm, not sure what the fuss is. I'm still enjoying the game and I like to see people showing their knowledge, and hence love, of the series. I don't guess when I have no clue, or I take a wild guess if I feel like it. It's all good.
25anatwork.k
Oh my god, a hole in one! (Pardon the metaphor)
Joannasephine, you absolutely don't have to sit out any of the rounds at all. I'm still enjoying the game too. The only complaint I have is that sometimes there isn't as much activity on this thread so we definitely don't need to lose anyone... :)
Okay here is the quote for this round:
There were three loud knocks from below. They were repeated. And then they were repeated again.
Joannasephine, you absolutely don't have to sit out any of the rounds at all. I'm still enjoying the game too. The only complaint I have is that sometimes there isn't as much activity on this thread so we definitely don't need to lose anyone... :)
Okay here is the quote for this round:
There were three loud knocks from below. They were repeated. And then they were repeated again.
26MrsLee
*smirk* Thud. Get it? 3 loud knocks? I gotta go to bed, my funny bone is way out of alignment. :)
27anatwork.k
Hahaha...I do get it. But sadly, no. :)
30anatwork.k
Non and nein.
31AnnieMod
I was thinking of sitting out for a while as well (I was actually sitting out). But then - oh well...
I do not think it is one of the regular books - for some reasons it sounds like one of the YA ones (had been leafing through a few of them a few days ago looking for something which means that I had been reading random passages... and this one does sound familiar) - so let's try with The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
I do not think it is one of the regular books - for some reasons it sounds like one of the YA ones (had been leafing through a few of them a few days ago looking for something which means that I had been reading random passages... and this one does sound familiar) - so let's try with The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
32anatwork.k
Yes, it is The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. It is the scene where the value of a secret knock is discussed with trademark Pratchett hilarity. Take it away, Annie.
33AnnieMod
OK - let's go for a personal favorite of mine (the passage, not the book - I am not saying anything about the book)
No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well, technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders always found, after a few days, that they didn't own their own horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops.
No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well, technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders always found, after a few days, that they didn't own their own horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops.
34anatwork.k
The Colour of Magic, isn't it?
It is one of those quotes that pops up in a generalized form in a bunch of books I think. I also associate it strongly with the Watch books. Well, this is the guess for now.
It is one of those quotes that pops up in a generalized form in a bunch of books I think. I also associate it strongly with the Watch books. Well, this is the guess for now.
35AnnieMod
It is not :) At least I did not take it from there - and if it is in the Colour, it is in a slightly different form... I hope.
36justjim
As someone involved in the teaching of English as an additional/second language, as well as acceptance of cultural differences, I love the final part of this phrase; "…just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops."
It is in Eric, I think.
It is in Eric, I think.
38AnnieMod
>36 justjim:
Of course :) All yours
>37 anatwork.k:
And here I was throwing an easy one so you can get it ;)
Of course :) All yours
>37 anatwork.k:
And here I was throwing an easy one so you can get it ;)
39justjim
Woohoo!
A large hairy hand grabbed Angua's wrist. She looked up into a terrifying face, all eyes and mouth and hair.
A large hairy hand grabbed Angua's wrist. She looked up into a terrifying face, all eyes and mouth and hair.
40anatwork.k
Feet of Clay, isn't it?
41justjim
Yes, of course it is. Sgt Angua deals with Schlitzen quite calmly, deploying her anti-bogeyman blanket.
Well done.
Well done.
42anatwork.k
Ooo, yay. :)
Let us try this one:
Meat pies! Hot sausages! Inna bun! So fresh the pig hasn't noticed they're gone!
Let me know if this is too generic; I will come up with something else. Although I do think the last line adds specificity. :)
Let us try this one:
Meat pies! Hot sausages! Inna bun! So fresh the pig hasn't noticed they're gone!
Let me know if this is too generic; I will come up with something else. Although I do think the last line adds specificity. :)
44anatwork.k
Aaand it's not generic... :)
Over to you AnnieMod.
Over to you AnnieMod.
45AnnieMod
I think even hasn't was not spelled exactly like that ;) Although it was almost a wild guess - I know that it happens in a few books so I picked the one where I can remember it happening exactly.
Next - should be easy.
"And then there was the young male walk to master. At least women swung only their hips. Young men swung everything, from the shoulders down. You have to try to occupy a lot of space, she thought. It makes you look bigger, like a tomcat fluffing his tail."
Next - should be easy.
"And then there was the young male walk to master. At least women swung only their hips. Young men swung everything, from the shoulders down. You have to try to occupy a lot of space, she thought. It makes you look bigger, like a tomcat fluffing his tail."
46pwaites
Monstrous Regiment! I've always loved this line. :)
47AnnieMod
Of course. All yours, pwaites :)
Yeah - I like it also - I kinda decided to post favorite passages for a while.
Yeah - I like it also - I kinda decided to post favorite passages for a while.
48pwaites
"WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE"
49anatwork.k
Sounds awfully familiar as in I've re-read it recently. The Truth! (I think)
Its one of my favourite passages. :)
Its one of my favourite passages. :)
51anatwork.k
It was the potato -- it was the only book I could think of that had Death of Rats eating a potato. :)
52anatwork.k
The Patrician was a pragmatist. He never tried to fix things that worked. Things that didn't work, however, got broken.
54anatwork.k
Nope.
56anatwork.k
Yep. Over to you Annie.
57AnnieMod
"It was a dark night, the kind of darkness which is not simply explainable by absence of moon or stars, but the darkness that appears to flow in from somewhere else-so thick and tangible that maybe you could snatch a handful of air and squeeze the night out of it."
62anatwork.k
Hmmm, Mort?
63anatwork.k
Welcome back, Minnie. :)
64pinkozcat
Temporarily only. I was imagining my favourite Pratchett scene in which
Greebo eats the vampire.
Greebo eats the vampire.
67KayEluned
Not Equal Rites but you're in the right area :)
68AnnieMod
Sourcery? I was going between the 2 before posting and decided to just post one of them and hope for the best.
69anatwork.k
>64 pinkozcat: Hahaha I love that scene. It is so hilarious. By the time Magrat finished thunking the vampire with her window for the third time I felt quite sorry for the poor guy.
73AnnieMod
Now they were arriving, each family branch and often each individual with their own lawyer and bodyguards, being careful about whom they deigned to notice, just in case they inadvertently smiled at someone they were currently suing.
74KayEluned
For once I feel really sure I know which one this is, but I just had a go so I can't say it! : (
76edrandrew
Making Money I think.
78edrandrew
The landlord of The Fiddler's Riddle considered himself to be a man of the world, and this was right,because he was too stupid to be really cruel, and too lazy to be really mean and although his body had been around quite a lot his mind had never gone further than the inside of his own head.
EDIT: To correct a typo.
EDIT: To correct a typo.
80joannasephine
Or head?
(But no title guess.)
(But no title guess.)
81edrandrew
Runner's up prize to joannasephine for correctly correcting the quote. It wasn't from Wee Free Men so first prize is still up for grabs.
82anatwork.k
Ok, going for A Hat Full of Sky. :)
83AnnieMod
I think that this is the wrong direction for this quote. I am almost sure it is one of the Witches books.
Equal Rites by any chance?
Equal Rites by any chance?
85AnnieMod
Ugh - and it was a wild guess on which Witches... :) ok. Next
"As he sat down at his desk there was another gust of wind, which rattled the hour-glasses on the shelves and made the big pendulum clock in the hall pause briefly in its interminable task of slicing time into manageable bits."
"As he sat down at his desk there was another gust of wind, which rattled the hour-glasses on the shelves and made the big pendulum clock in the hall pause briefly in its interminable task of slicing time into manageable bits."
94pwaites
Soul Music? It is the only Death book that hasn't yet been guessed.
95AnnieMod
And it is not correct either. :) Wrong direction with the Death books -- there is another book that has a very prominent Death episode :)
96pinkozcat
The book which is mostly about death (note lower case) is Pyramids but I doubt very much if that is the correct answer.
102AnnieMod
No and no.
A second line very close in the text to that one (not next one but close enough and that should help... I hope: "OH, he said. IT'S HIM."
A second line very close in the text to that one (not next one but close enough and that should help... I hope: "OH, he said. IT'S HIM."
103AnnieMod
>101 pinkozcat:
And while I was trying to get off the phone to post, pinkozcat got it.
Of course it is Eric :) All yours.
And while I was trying to get off the phone to post, pinkozcat got it.
Of course it is Eric :) All yours.
104pinkozcat
Vimes slept a lot better that night, partly because he could feel that somewhere in the universe near by there was a clue waiting for him to pull.
105justjim
Hmmm, perhaps when His Lordship, the Duke is not supposed to be detecoring? Snuff, perhaps?
107pinkozcat
It looks as though justjim has been flooded out of house and home.
Would someone else please pick up the baton.
Would someone else please pick up the baton.
109pinkozcat
The east coast of Australia has had a great deal of rain in the last couple of weeks. I'm not sure where he lives but a lot of towns have had to be evacuated and even parts of Sydney have been severely flooded.
110justjim
Oh crap!
Firstly; no I'm not in the flooded area. Comfortably south and west of those poor folk.
Secondly, sorry for the long delay in keeping up the DW fun here. I have had a very busy week with photographing cricket finals and end of season administration. Also, I forgot I had made a guess!
He'd got hard pad, soft pad, the swinge, licky end, scroff, mange and something rather strange on the back of his neck that he couldn't quite reach.
Firstly; no I'm not in the flooded area. Comfortably south and west of those poor folk.
Secondly, sorry for the long delay in keeping up the DW fun here. I have had a very busy week with photographing cricket finals and end of season administration. Also, I forgot I had made a guess!
He'd got hard pad, soft pad, the swinge, licky end, scroff, mange and something rather strange on the back of his neck that he couldn't quite reach.
113AnnieMod
Sounds like Gaspode.. so... Men at Arms?
115pinkozcat
Sounds a bit like Moving Pictures
117justjim
Not MP, but it is from The Fifth Elephant. Gaspode is worrying about being accepted by the wolves.
Again, sorry for the long delay and for causing any worries.
Again, sorry for the long delay and for causing any worries.
119anatwork.k
new quote somebody!!! :)
120justjim
An aside, perhaps. I was trying to think of this when I was answering #111. What was the collective name that the rats had for themselves in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents?
121pinkozcat
I'll put up my hand to get the game going again.
You had to assume he was a human being because he was broadly the right shape, could talk and wasn't covered in hair.
You had to assume he was a human being because he was broadly the right shape, could talk and wasn't covered in hair.
122AnnieMod
Men at Arms? I suspect that the 'person' described like that is Nobby Nobbs... no clue which book so guessing :)
123pinkozcat
Yes, it is about Nobby Nobbs but the book is not Men at Arms.
126anatwork.k
Guards! Guards! by a process of elimination?
>120 justjim: I can't remember but now I feel like reading the book again. :)
>120 justjim: I can't remember but now I feel like reading the book again. :)
127pinkozcat
Not Guards! Guards! either.
#120 It was one of the books I bookcrossed. I didn't like it enough to keep it.
#120 It was one of the books I bookcrossed. I didn't like it enough to keep it.
128anatwork.k
Feet of Clay? And yes, I am going in order. :)
130pinkozcat
No - not Feet of Clay or Thud.
131anatwork.k
Ummmm...I could be haring off on completely the wrong track but is this Hogfather? I get the feeling that it might not be a straight up guards book...
134pinkozcat
No - not Night Watch
137AnnieMod
"Cooks and scullery maids darted for cover as the old woman pounded along the slippery flagstones, leapt up the stairs to the courtyard and skidded out into the lane, her shawl flying out behind her and her boots striking sparks from the cobbles."
141pinkozcat
I'll go way out on a limb and guess Monstrous Regiment
147anatwork.k
Just for a lark, Eric?
149AnnieMod
>147 anatwork.k:
I tried 3 times (or thereabouts) with Eric and you missed it :) So decided to change the book.
>148 pinkozcat:
Yep. So all yours :)
I tried 3 times (or thereabouts) with Eric and you missed it :) So decided to change the book.
>148 pinkozcat:
Yep. So all yours :)
150anatwork.k
Dammit... Lol, I thought it was Equal Rites but then thought about how often you picked Eric. :)
152pinkozcat
But this street was deathly quiet, that particularly unpleasant quiet that comes when hundreds of frightened and angry people are standing very still.
154eclecticdodo
I'll kick it off with unseen academicals?
155pinkozcat
No not Unseen Academicals
156AnnieMod
This is one of the early books I think. So... The Colour of Magic?
157pinkozcat
No, not The Colour of Magic.
158edrandrew
Night Watch perhaps?
159pinkozcat
No, not Night Watch.
162AnnieMod
Also at about the same moment as the homing rat disappeared into the maze of runs under the city, scurrying along in faultless obedience to an ancient instinct, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork picked up the letters delivered that morning by albatross.
167edrandrew
The Colour of Magic - I feel sure it's Twoflower's arrival being brought to the Patrician's notice.
169edrandrew
It's not true about the rats, or the snake heads, or the lead shot. The one about the dead sheep is a complete fabrication. We can lay to rest all the variations of the one about the trouser button.
171edrandrew
Phew, I was thinking that the world had ended and nobody told me! However, Equal Rites it is not.
174pinkozcat
Equal Rites was a wild guess to get things going. The next mention of scumble is, I think, in Mort.
After that I'll have to hunt through for the description of how Nanny Ogg makes the stuff but that will take some time as I am d****d if I can remember which book that came in.
After that I'll have to hunt through for the description of how Nanny Ogg makes the stuff but that will take some time as I am d****d if I can remember which book that came in.
175anatwork.k
Let us try Wintersmith since Minnie has kindly pointed out that we are dealing with scumble. :)
176AnnieMod
Damn, pinkozcat already got it - I am 99% sure it is indeed Mort. So I am silently disappearing... :)
177pinkozcat
I am only assuming that we are talking about scumble because cider, also made with apples, is supposed to be greatly improved by tossing a sheep's head into the barrel.
178anatwork.k
It's more of an insight than I have had. :)
EDIT: OMG are you serious? That sounds awful!
EDIT: OMG are you serious? That sounds awful!
179edrandrew
Fascinating bit of back story on the origins of the rumours of scumble. Mort it was, so it's your turn pinkozcat.
180pinkozcat
#178 It almost puts one off drinking cider ...
Even so, he was conscious of a certain heaviness of mind, a feeling that if he turned his head sharply then memory would slosh out of his ears.
Even so, he was conscious of a certain heaviness of mind, a feeling that if he turned his head sharply then memory would slosh out of his ears.
189AnnieMod
If he tapped his foot he could persuade himself that he could feel the floor, he could know that he was really standing in the room, and that the urgent signals from all his other senses, which were telling him that he was suspended in the air some thousand miles or so above the Disc, were just a bad dream he'd wake up from.
190anatwork.k
Aha...Eric??? Finally?
192anatwork.k
Haha. Ok, let's try this one:
Of the very worst words that can be heard by anyone high in the air, the pair known as 'Uh-oh' possibly combine the maximum of bowel-knotting terror with the minimum wastage of breath.
Of the very worst words that can be heard by anyone high in the air, the pair known as 'Uh-oh' possibly combine the maximum of bowel-knotting terror with the minimum wastage of breath.
198anatwork.k
Haha Thief of Time it is and Jim has it. Next time, Minnie! :)
199justjim
There's only the quick and the vitally challenged!
'Sounds sensible to me, ' said *****. 'When there's a war around take the day off, that's my motto.'
'Sounds sensible to me, ' said *****. 'When there's a war around take the day off, that's my motto.'
202justjim
Too quick! It is Rincewind doing his well-practiced cowardly act in Interesting Times.
Yer up, Minnie!
Yer up, Minnie!
203pinkozcat
Ah - I thought that it might be Rincewind. :)
Not that, no. But there's copies all over the place of him in chains and I hear it's been sent by the Clacks to Ankh-Morpork,
There you are - a nice easy one.
Not that, no. But there's copies all over the place of him in chains and I hear it's been sent by the Clacks to Ankh-Morpork,
There you are - a nice easy one.
208pinkozcat
AnnieMod has it right. It is from Monstrous Regiment.
209anatwork.k
It did sound like MR. :)
210AnnieMod
"Arms tired. Another ten seconds and I'm gonna be a chalk outline..."
"Nah, no one's got that much chalk."
"Nah, no one's got that much chalk."
211pinkozcat
That sounds a bit like Monstrous Regiment too. Didn't they climb down a well or something to break into the castle/fortress or whatever? I really must read it again.
213anatwork.k
Guards! Guards!? Fred Colon being the first speaker?
214edrandrew
Definitely rings a bell for Fred, but even a chalk outline sounds a bit too professional for the watch at that stage. men at Arms perhaps?
216anatwork.k
214. I was worried about the chalk outline. Can't think of any other (big?) people being suspended though. Ooh it is Nanny!
Witches Abroad? I want to be right! :)
Witches Abroad? I want to be right! :)
218anatwork.k
Nuts. Lords and Ladies? And this is my last guess. Good night everyone. :)
221anatwork.k
Feet of Clay. It is Fred...talking to Wee Mad Arthur while trying to escape from the King Golem.
223anatwork.k
Awesome. Okay, here goes:
Another little memory burst open as silently as a mouse passing wind in a hurricane.
Another little memory burst open as silently as a mouse passing wind in a hurricane.
224justjim
That sounds like the way Vimes mind operates. The Fifth Elephant?
225anatwork.k
Alas no.
229anatwork.k
Ah, Annie got it. It was Jingo. All yours Annie.
231AnnieMod
Jim, of course it is Vimes. Who else :)
Next:
"A wizard could do what he liked in his own study, and in the old days that had largely meant smoking anything he fancied and farting hugely without apologizing."
Next:
"A wizard could do what he liked in his own study, and in the old days that had largely meant smoking anything he fancied and farting hugely without apologizing."
238anatwork.k
Lol I know she is! I had a half completed messge too.
239pinkozcat
I have found the place in Lords and Ladies where Casanunda says "Kneel and deliver" but there is no "Ook! Ook?" before it so the quote may not be from Lords and Ladies.
However:
"Ridcully scratched his head. "Hah ... just wish I could remember her name ... "
He stretched out with his feet on the Bursar.
"S'funny, that," he said. "Can't even remember her name. Hah! She could outrun a horse - "
"Kneel and deliver!!
The coach rattled to a halt.
Keep guessing --- it may be in another book, ... maybe?
However:
"Ridcully scratched his head. "Hah ... just wish I could remember her name ... "
He stretched out with his feet on the Bursar.
"S'funny, that," he said. "Can't even remember her name. Hah! She could outrun a horse - "
"Kneel and deliver!!
The coach rattled to a halt.
Keep guessing --- it may be in another book, ... maybe?
240anatwork.k
That seems odd. The "ook ook" doesn't exist in my version (US Harper Collins kindle edition) either. Can anyone with a Brit edition corroborate?
241edrandrew
UK hardback edition is as per #239. We would appear not to have found the right passage or indeed possibly the right book, although I can't think where else a diminutive robber meets the librarian.
Sudden thought... might we have diverged into play scripts?
Sudden thought... might we have diverged into play scripts?
242anatwork.k
#241 Anything is possible. :)
I shall wait for KayEluned to come back because I simply cannot think of any other place this quote could be in (apart from the play, of course).
I shall wait for KayEluned to come back because I simply cannot think of any other place this quote could be in (apart from the play, of course).
243pinkozcat
The quote is on a web page devoted to quotes from Terry Pratchett and Oook! Ook? is the one above the "Kneel and Deliver" quote.
http://www.au.lspace.org/books/pqf/lords-and-ladies.html
Edited to add the link
http://www.au.lspace.org/books/pqf/lords-and-ladies.html
Edited to add the link
244anatwork.k
Oh its on Lspace. Honest mistake then. I suppose you can go ahead Minnie?
245pinkozcat
Yes, an honest mistake; the actual site is a bit misleading. I'd prefer to wait for the OK from KayEluned who may only have access to the internet during the week.
Give it another day; it will give me time to find something difficult. :)
Give it another day; it will give me time to find something difficult. :)
246pinkozcat
No KayEluned but Lords and Ladies is correct so:
And there was the mouse. It didn't seem to do much, but whenever they forgot to give it its cheese Hex stopped working.
And there was the mouse. It didn't seem to do much, but whenever they forgot to give it its cheese Hex stopped working.
247eclecticdodo
changed my mind - soul music
249eclecticdodo
ok, maybe it is interesting times after all?
251eclecticdodo
hmm... I seem to be the only one guessing. I'll have one more try - unseen academicals?
252pinkozcat
not Unseen Academicals either
255KayEluned
Hi people, sorry for not being on had a bit of a hectic weekend. It was supposed to be Lords and Ladies but I double checked it and you're right I got the quote wrong, sorry. Must try harder : )
257AnnieMod
"She had never been sure, given that she had no idea what sort of thing a boudoir was, what sort of thing you would find in it when you did. She found that it contained people, heat and flowers-not flowers in bunches, but in pillars and towering stacks, filling most of the air with clouds of sticky perfume while the people below filled the rest of it with words, tightly packed. "
260pinkozcat
I was changing my guess while you were posting. Is it not Witches abroad or not Maskerade?
Sorry about this; I had hoped that you would not be so speedy.
Sorry about this; I had hoped that you would not be so speedy.
263pinkozcat
Ah - thank you for your very quick response. I need to think about this one. It sounded very witchy but perhaps not.
264pinkozcat
Hmmm ... I Shall Wear Midnight?
266pinkozcat
Monstrous Regiment and I'm out of here; things to do ...
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