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I'm gobsmacked that Senior Wrangler is an actual thing. I thought Terry Pratchett made it up!
by rogual 5y ago
I'm gobsmacked that Senior Wrangler is an actual thing. I thought Terry Pratchett made it up!
- dcminter 5y agoPart of his great talent was that of weaving together factual minutiae with fictional minutiae such that the boundaries are impossible to spot without prior knowledge! Even if you know you have to keep your eye open for it. E.g. my personal favourite is that I 100% did not spot until it was pointed out to me that the printing dwarfs in The Truth are all named after fonts...
- Symbiote 5y agoThe Annotated Pratchett File lists many similar references Pratchett included in his novels. In this case, it's marked as p35 of Reaper Man: https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/reaper-man.html https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/reaper-man.html