Snuff

[Cool Middle Name]

Hooraay! A new guards book?
It's worth avoiding that sausage in a bun!


Corpral Nobbs is human, he has a note to prove it!

'Sausage inna bun! Get your hot sausage inna bun!

Almost certainly 100% Pig... just what parts are a mystery... Mystery Sausage inna bun!'

Nobbs' note is uncertain.

 

[Tonyblack]

I can't see Agnes and Oats meeting up again, sadly. He's too busy in Uberwald bringing the Light to all those folks. Witches tend to stay put. But I do like Oats and I really like Agnes and it would be good to see them both again.

 

[raisindot]

OK - I've zoomed in and cropped and can now see more of the details.

Chickens! And some sort of creature sitting on Sam's shoulder. That seems to be a boat he's steering, but why the tree branches?

It's not a boat. It's a balloon or zeppelin of some kind. Note the circular shape of the gondola and the trees being "lower" than the thing. The chickens are probably a reference to the first hot air balloon launched by De Rozier in 1783, whose passengers were a sheep, a duck and a rooster.

One might suspect that Leonard of Quirm is somehow involved in its invention...

 

[Sjoerd3000]

But if you look to the left you see a paddle wheel

 

[Quatermass]

Could there be a variation on the myth of Orpheus in the story? I mean, if there is a river (the Disc version of the Styx, maybe?), a lifetimer, and going down a river...well, I can imagine Vimes as a sort of badass Orpheus.

 

[pip]

Could there be a variation on the myth of Orpheus in the story? I mean, if there is a river (the Disc version of the Styx, maybe?), a lifetimer, and going down a river...well, I can imagine Vimes as a sort of badass Orpheus.

What instrument would you have Vimes play :

 

[Tonyblack]

They did that whole underworld thing in Wintersmith.

 

[Quatermass]

Could there be a variation on the myth of Orpheus in the story? I mean, if there is a river (the Disc version of the Styx, maybe?), a lifetimer, and going down a river...well, I can imagine Vimes as a sort of badass Orpheus.

What instrument would you have Vimes play :

Percussion seems to be his specialty...

They did that whole underworld thing in Wintersmith.

Ah, yes, you're right. Forgot about that, Tony. Bugger, I thought I was really onto something there.

But then again, Lords and Ladies was pretty much recycled into Carpe Jugulum, if I recall...

 

[raisindot]

But if you look to the left you see a paddle wheel

Well...it might be one of them airboats.

I think the thing on Sam's shoulder is the imp from his Disorganizer.

Would be interesting if there really was a River Styx metaphor.

Then again, much of this may change by the time the book is published.

 

[raisindot]

But then again, Lords and Ladies was pretty much recycled into Carpe Jugulum, if I recall...

Wee Free Men, actually. Which I thought was a much better treatment of the same material.

 

[Tonyblack]

I have to admit that I thought of the River Styx as well.

 

[meerkat]

It could be the Watch's boat. Looks rather cream crackered!

 

[high eight]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mmCJVwl0wA0/TaV5ImB9j3I/AAAAAAAADjY/PawZ4Gt0nw8/s1600/Snuff.jpg

Colour image here. It is a boat (well, more like a submarine) and it appears to be on an underground river.

 

[meerkat]

Thanks for that high eight! Chickens? Tree trunks? It's not under his county house is it?

 

[Tonyblack]

We seem to have two threads going on this subject. Here's the other one.

 

[dennykay]

Sally was a copper before she met Vimes

Sorry for being THAT late...but...didn't sally just play the cello and had not a day of copper experience? i seem to remember that vimes sends her to "what we laughingly call on-the-job-training" or something like that, didn't he?

 

[madam]

she said later on in the book that she'd been part of the new force in bonk.

 

[Tonyblack]

she said later on in the book that she'd been part of the new force in bonk.

Indeed - that's what I remember as well.

 

[dennykay]

she said later on in the book that she'd been part of the new force in bonk.

course, that's right. well, thud is next on the reading list.

 

[davieatuin]

from the colour image of the book looks like the clashing cliffs from jason and the argonauts if im with the right movie there that is lol.
only say that as it seems like lightning in the sky?? mind you in the disc world who says you can have lightning underground haha