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- From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
- Subject: Re: Reaperssessing the title (was Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.204920.6281@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:49:20 GMT
- References: <BxKyrF.MD@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Nov12.133425.29571@aston.ac.uk> <leo.721644482@galaxy> <1992Nov16.160630.3702@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov16.160630.3702@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>,
- wald@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David Wald) writes:
- |>
- |>Can we get a ruling from TP on this? (Or did we get one that I
- |>missed?) I know that "Repo Man" was the first thing I thought of when
- |>I saw the book title, since I wasn't familiar with the term "Reaper
- |>Man," in that form. While the film title may have come from "Reaper
- |>Man" originally, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that the book
- |>title was a take off on the film title.
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- We got a ruling on this a long time ago. When Terry first said he was doing
- a sequel to Mort, he said that he wanted to call it "Reaper Man", punning on
- "Repo Man", but that his publisher would probably want it called "Mort II".
- Fortunately, Terry prevailed.
-
- It is still likely true that the term "repo man" for a reposession agent is
- itself a pun on the ancient practice of referring to death as "the grim reaper"
- or more simply "the reaper man".
-
- --PSW
-