Talk:Book:The Last Hero/Annotations

This is interesting, as the money reference used is in the old pre-decimal British: if Leonardo is costing his project in £sd, this lends weight to the idea (as gleaned from evidence in Making Money) that Ankh-Morpork's currency system is £sd rather than decimal. --AgProv 09:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Who knew that Marriott Edgar also wrote most of the tales of "yoong Albert Ramsbottom" for Stanley Holloway? Anyway, in the palmy days when bird's-eye maple might have been bought that cheaply fractions of pence would probably have been required whether there were 100 or 240 to the pound. There are lots of hints of both systems; that's the problem. --Old Dickens 21:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

And on reflection, Leonardo currently resides in a personal Heaven, where all the materials and equipment he needs fall out of the sky and onto his workbench in such a manner that the last thing he needs worry about is costing. So maybe he's got a little bit out of practice at the ol' quantity surveying, or he remembers the prices as they were prior to his being invited to come and live as a permanent guest in a house where his imagination arrests him to the workbench...--AgProv 08:46, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

As we noticed before, the likeness of Ponder Stibbons was created before Daniel Radcliffe's first H***y P****r was released. Was Paul K. watching very carefully, or is it a great coincidence? The forehead line in the pencil-chewing picture isn't jagged; which is the "infamous portrait"? --Old Dickens 00:04, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Raise your can of beer on high, and seal your soul forever! Our best years have passed us by, the Golden Age of Leather...

Thought about the Blue Oyster Cult anthem Golden Age of Leather which is about the last stand of old unrepentant Hell's Angels for whom the world has got too small. In a world holding nothing for them any more, they choose to go out and die in a blaze of glory:

For that fantastic night was billed/As nothing less than the end of an age,/ A last crusade, a final outrage...

We made a vow to give it all we had to give!/ We made a vow to die as we have lived!"

The Silver Horde certainly embody this attitude...

The wind hit the desert with a giant hand/ and the humans saw the horrors in the shifting sand/The lone Ranger weathered the storm, as he topped the rise by their Little Big Horn/He saw rippled dunes and a sight surreal.../ and the glimpse of a solitary shaft of chromium steel...

OK, snow rather than desert sand, and a vacant shattered wheelchair rather than a broken Harley, but the song sure fits.... --AgProv 02:08, 17 July 2011 (CEST)

I just realized that the my copy of TLH is the HarperCollins edition, if someone could check if the Gollancz page number is the same for the annotation about Schrödinger's cat it would be most appreciated. --Zdm 05:20, 1 August 2011 (CEST)

Very belatedly, and the opening lines notwithstanding, it's p.69 in my Gollancz soft-cover edition. Where is old Zdm anyway? --Old Dickens (talk) 04:33, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

New format?

I've been toying with the idea of trying to make a cleaner format for the annotations, to make them easier to read, and since I had a few things to add and change for this page anyway, I went ahead and tried it out. What do we think? Is this better? I was thinking if there are any annotations for the title, cover or generally about a book, we could have a "General Annotations" section before the specific page references under "Specific Annotations". -- Guybrush (talk) 07:13, 18 May 2022 (UTC)