Feegles up your trousers

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GimmeMedals Apr 2023 9:22am, 28 Apr 2023 25,028 posts	0 GimmeMedals I do like how Pterry plays with spellings in these books. I’ve just started Soul Music and have met Imp and his lls 😄
Raemond Apr 2023 10:13am, 28 Apr 2023 10,372 posts	0 Raemond Soul Music might be the peak of his round world culture references, I think. I consider myself a proud Llamedosian 😁
GimmeMedals Apr 2023 11:54am, 28 Apr 2023 25,031 posts	0 GimmeMedals
Elsie Too May 2023 9:56am, 8 May 2023 4,860 posts	0 Elsie Too I’m reading Sourcery and can’t help thinking that JK Rowling must have read this. The arch chancellor hat is so similar to the sorting hat. Also when reading Light Fantastic I noticed the plant that screams when pulled up - the Mandrakes? Or maybe they both got these ideas from some myth or something?
rf_fozzy May 2023 10:38am, 8 May 2023 20,031 posts	0 rf_fozzy Rowling nicked stuff from TP and lots of others places. As did pratchett who nicked stuff from Lovecraft, Tolkien and others. The difference is that Rowling denied she'd done so where as pratchett was honest about it.
rf_fozzy May 2023 10:40am, 8 May 2023 20,032 posts	0 rf_fozzy And to be clear, there's nothing wrong with authors nicking bits and being semi derivative, but with your own spin on the area. After all building an entire fictional universe is hard
GimmeMedals May 2023 11:27pm, 13 May 2023 25,194 posts	0 GimmeMedals I’m wondering if the owner of this craft shop in Bude has read Soul Music
Groundhog May 2023 4:03pm, 14 May 2023 5,550 posts	0 Groundhog A bit of a random find as I was searching for something else (not in the Daily Mail), but interesting... dailymail.co.uk
Raemond May 2023 5:38pm, 14 May 2023 10,441 posts	0 Raemond I can't click that, can you give us a summary?
GimmeMedals May 2023 6:53pm, 14 May 2023 25,203 posts	0 GimmeMedals He started young.