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- From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
- Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 -
- Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:58:00 +0000
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- Re: Leiber stuff...
-
- No, not guilty this time. If I put a reference in a book I try to pick one
- that a generally well-read (well-viewed, well-listened) person has a sporting
- chance of picking up; I call this 'white knowledge', the sort of stuff that
- fills up your brain without you really knowing where it came from. Enough
- people would've read Leiber, say, to pick up a generalised reference to
- Fafhrd, etc, and even more people would have some knowledge of Tolkien -- but
- I wouldn't rely on people having read a specific story. "Seeing the
- elephant" is a genuine phrase, although when I tried it out on CIS I found
- that no two Americans are in agreement as to its precise meaning...
-
- Terry
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