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J.S. Lopes

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Four-eyed Twoflower

Four eyes would sound to "alien" for a guy, and Twoflower is clearly shown as on ordinary human being. I think it's based on the stereotype of Japanese tourists (in Brazil, it looks like an American tourist stereotype)
 

Tonyblack

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author3 said:
I always imagined him four eyed but then I saw the movie and now I picture him with glasses uugh
That was the thing. When Terry wrote the book he said that Twoflower had four eyes - but what he actually meant was he was wearing glasses. Remember the people in A-M hadn't seen glasses at this point. Josh Kirby took the description literally when he did the cover.

As many of us will testify, if you wear glasses in school, you get called 'four-eyes' - or Joe 90, or Milky Bar Kid... :rolleyes:
 

rockershovel

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I'd always taken that to mean that he wore glasses.

I'd seen Josh Kirby's illustration with four actual eyes but I'd assumed that this was one of his occasional liberties with the text, like Conanina's "chain-mail bikini" style of dress ( Angua appears like this on one of the covers for no good reason )

Kirby usually depicts Angua as quite pneumatic, with a distinctly "sculpted" breast-plate, but she is described as being slim and athletic - it's just one of those things
 

Phoenix

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rockershovel said:
I'd always taken that to mean that he wore glasses.

I'd seen Josh Kirby's illustration with four actual eyes but I'd assumed that this was one of his occasional liberties with the text, like Conanina's "chain-mail bikini" style of dress ( Angua appears like this on one of the covers for no good reason )

Kirby usually depicts Angua as quite pneumatic, with a distinctly "sculpted" breast-plate, but she is described as being slim and athletic - it's just one of those things
Doesn't the book where Angua first appears (Men At Arms? ... Remembering random sentences I can do, but placing them is another matter :p) mention that her breastplate needed to be hammered out in certain places? Along with not being able to wear a helmet because of all of the hair, if memory serves.

I always pictured Twoflower to be wearing glasses as well, I think because he had knowledge/technology that was unusual to AM, so that was just another. In my copy of Interesting Times, the cover illustration is by Josh Kirby and seems to have Twoflower wearing a pair of fetching red glasses, so maybe TP had a word ;)
 

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#36
Phoenix said:
Doesn't the book where Angua first appears (Men At Arms? ... Remembering random sentences I can do, but placing them is another matter :p) mention that her breastplate needed to be hammered out in certain places? Along with not being able to wear a helmet because of all of the hair, if memory serves.
Yes it does
Constable Angua had mastered saluting first go. She wouldn’t have a full uniform yet, not until someone had taken a, well, let’s face it, a breastplate along to old Remitt the armourer and told him to beat it out really well here and here, and no helmet in the world would cover all that mass of ash-blond hair but, it occurred to Carrot, Constable Angua wouldn’t need any of that stuff really. People would be queuing up to get arrested.
 
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Just started to re-read TCOM on a borrowed Kindle to see how I like the reader and I found more clues, on the paperback version it says on page 39:

'Yes.' Twoflower looked worriedly at the wizard over the top of his strange seeing-lenses. 'Will two thousand be sufficient, do you think?'
Sounds like glasses to me that :laugh:
 
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poohcarrot said:
In Interesting Times it says he wore glasses. :laugh:
Mhnn... might be a bit meta-writing here. After all, several good authors use or don't use specific terms until the main characters/main group of characters learned the/found a name of/for it.
 

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