Loads of stuff goes into his books that reflects real life, I think it's only when people might think it's too outlandish to be true that he comments on it. The rest of it is up to us to find out for ourselves, so we can feel clever for it
Loads of stuff goes into his books that reflects real life, I think it's only when people might think it's too outlandish to be true that he comments on it. The rest of it is up to us to find out for ourselves, so we can feel clever for it
oh, does this mean that there is only stuff in the annotations that are "officially" confirmed by Mr. Pratchett? Or do you refer to the maintainer of the wiki?
Terry rarely admits to his references. It's left pretty much up to the reader. Indeed, there's some references that people have pointed out that he's been surprised about as well. He's very well-read and it seems that some things are subconsciously put into the books.
It's like Pierre de Lancre, who was a judge in France famous for his witch hunting and writing books about witchcraft. It seems Terry has used this name to create the famous home of the witch trio in his books. But Terry claims he wasn't thinking that at all when he wrote the books.