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- From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
- Subject: Re: just stuff...
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:50:17 GMT
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- fishhook@sage.cc.purdue.edu (steven freeman) writes:
-
- > One other thing...I'm not positive about this, but, isn't Dunnmanifestin(sp),
- > home of the gods on Discworld, reffered to as a sort of retirement home?
- > Would that make the name a play on the words Done Manifesting, wich the gods
- > would be if they were retired...
-
- Read the Annotated Pratchett File, posted to this newsgroup every
- month (next release scheduled for 5 Dec) (or ftp it from
- theory.lcs.mit.edu in the file pub/dmjones/annotated-pratchett).
-
- In it, you will find, among a few other things:
-
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- + [p. 262] The home of the Gods at the top of Cori Celesti, is referred to
- as "Dunmanifestin" on several places in the Discworld novels [I am trying
- to chase the earliest appearance. Anyone?] This is not only a reference
- to the many British placenames that begin with 'Dun' (a Gaelic word
- meaning castle or fort and hence town) but also a reference to the
- supposedly traditional name for a twee retirement bungalow in the
- suburbs. When people (especially the bourgeous middle classes) retire to
- the suburbs, they always, according to the stereotype, give the house
- some 'cute' punning name. Since the Dun/Done association is well-known,
- one of the more common names (though it is a matter of discussion if
- anyone has ever actually seen a house with this name) is 'Dunroamin' -
- that is "Done Roaming" - i.e. the owners of the house have finished
- "travelling the world" (sic) and are now settled down to a life of the
- Daily Mail, golf and coffee mornings. From this, we get that a retirement
- home for gods not possessing much taste, might just be named
- "Dunmanifestin".
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- Leo Breebaart (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
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