Book:Lords and Ladies/Annotations

• "And what took place in Wyrd Sisters was a plot not unadjacent to a play about a Scottish king" - TP avoids mentioning Macbeth by name, a possible reference to the theater tradition that it's unlucky to do so?

• "And that's what the stones contained. The love of iron." - the word magnetism is never used in this book.

• "I asked Boggi's in Ankh-Morpork to send up their best dressmaker" - probably no relation to the well-known Boggis of Ankh-Morpork?

• "it was always cheaper to build a new 33-MegaLith circle than upgrade an old slow one" - reference to the 33 MHz Intel 80486 chip.

• "I AM A PICKER-UP OF UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES." - parodies Autolycus' line "My father named me Autolycus; who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles" from Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale.

• "Bees were her one failure" - In fact, Granny borrows bee minds in Equal Rites.

• '"this reminds me of that famous logical puzzle."' - reference to the Raymond Smullyan Knights and Knaves puzzle.

• '"Nothing funny about the Tooth Fairy," said Granny. "Very hard-working woman."' - in Hogfather, we learn there are several tooth fairies, not just one.

• '"But it ain't April!"' - in Witches Abroad, Granny implies that Nanny only bathes regularly in autumn, contradicting what Nanny's neighbors know (unless April can occur in autumn on Discworld due to it's unusual seasonal structure?)

• '"We haven't even got," said the Bursar, despite Ridcully's efforts to sit on his head, "any billygoats."' - reference to the story Three Billy Goats Gruff

External

The Light Fantastic Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File