Night Watch Cover

[SapphireForgeCat]

Didn't Terry Pratchett rename the book to 'Nightwatch' when he saw Paul Kidby's cover design for it?

 

[Tonyblack]

Didn't Terry Pratchett rename the book to 'Nightwatch' when he saw Paul Kidby's cover design for it?

I've not heard that, but you could well be right.

 

[Tonyblack]

This is from the L Space annotation for Night Watch:

+ [title] Night Watch

The working title for this book was The Nature of the Beast, but this was discarded when Frances Fyfield published a book with exactly that title in the UK in late 2001.

 

[RAY THE RED]

to the best of my knowledge i got
1 henry the hampster
4 carcer
6 sweeper/lu tze
7 vetinari
8 reg shoe
13 horace nancyball
14 Dai dickens
15 ned coates (i think)
16 findthee swing
18 Nobby nobbs
19 Billy wiglet
20 Old vimes
21 fred colon
22 Young vimes
23 snouty

 

[Tonyblack]

 

[Tonyblack]

Nice one Ray! Like to take a guess at number 5?

 

[TheMole]

well, let´s see (I´ll be guessing, I didn´t read previous posts

1 - Henry the Hamster
4 - Carcer
5 - Mossy Lawn
6 - Lu-Tze
7 - Vetinari
8 - Reg Shoe
12 - Snouter?
13 - Nancyball?
16 - Findthee Swing
18 - Nobby
19 - Wiglet?
20 - real Vimes
22 - young Vimes

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm pretty sure that 23 is Snouty as he has a key hanging from his belt. 12 is possibly Fred Colon?

 

[TheMole]

oh, I didn´t notice the keys...about No 12, I think he cannot be identified without doubt...but Fred is possible

PS: by the way - correct is Dickins, not Dickens

 

[Tonyblack]

Dai Dickins is correct I think. I haven't got my copy handy at the moment. The moustache gives him away in the picture I think.

 

[RACKU]

Ooh, the irony I've just started this one. And I have no idea how all you do it, but you seem to know your characters better then me ;P

 

[Tonyblack]

Hi RACKU - as you read the book you'll see that there are clues that will help you spot who is who.

 

[TheMole]

by the way, when we are talking Night Watch, I think there is an error on p. 215 of my Corgi paperback

The riot was what happens when you have panicking people trapped between idiots on horseback and other idiots shouting 'yeah, right!" and trying to push forward, and the whole thing in the charge of a fool advised by a maniac with a steel rule.

Should there be "steel ruler"? (i. e. steel ruler of Findthee Swing (see p. 166) being the maniac - with lord Winder as fool)

I am sorry if you already had discussed it on some other forum

 

[RACKU]

Thanks, Tonyblack. I didn't get half of the characters you all numbered until I went a bit further in the book today Sounds like you got them all right.

TheMole, I believe rule is still the correct term xD Just another name for ruler, really. I think this gets into really tight areas of the English language :]

 

[Tonyblack]

I'd agree with that Mole - 'rule' or 'ruler' can be used to describe onof those long straight things with numbers on.

Here's one of the definitions of 'rule' from an online dictionary.

"measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths"

Ruler is generally used more often, but rule is also correct.

 

[TheMole]

oh...accept my deepest excuses, and as Otto Chriek would say - bodrozvachski zhaltziet!

 

[Tonyblack]

Happy to help - and as to errors - Thud! is full of them! I was lucky enough to get hold of an advance reading copy and hoped that the problems would be put right in the final edition, but no such luck.

 

[snapcase72]

I recognized the following:

4 - Carcer
6 - Lu Tze
7 - Vetinary
8 - Reginald Shoe
16 - Findthee Swing
18 - Nobby
20 - Sam Vimes
22 - Sam Vimes

14 - Snouty?

 

[the sandman]

i no that 1 is henry the hamster and 16 i think is captain findthee swing

 

[Trish]

Mind you, there's a little girl where Nobby is.

Traffic calming.

Gee, Faulknerian foreshadowing at its best. Nobby could've moved right into Frenchman's Bend and none of the Snopeses would have noticed.