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- From: robin@duich.turing.ac.uk (Robin Boswell)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
- Subject: Lords and Ladies references and query
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.094528.13083@turing.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 09:45:28 GMT
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- Half-way down p. 62 of the British edition of "Lords and Ladies",
- there's a list of five terms for lands beyond the mundane.
- The first, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" sounds
- familiar, but I can't identify the reference. Can anyone
- help?
-
- In case anyone's interested, the others are:
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- ii) "Behind the North Wind" - cf. George MacDonald's "At the Back of the
- North Wind", the term itself being a translation of "Hyperborea"
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- iii) "At the Back of Beyond" - an idiom, rather than a literary reference,
- unless anyone knows better (and perhaps a second oblique reference to
- the MacDonald title).
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- iv) "There and Back again" - the secondary title for "The Hobbit"
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- v) "Beyond the fields we know" - see Lord Dunsany, more or less {\it passim}.
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- Robin Boswell.
-