![]() ![]() I can't imagine that a man with Leiber's good cheer and sense of humor would have objected to such a homage. Bombs are falling and buildings are left in rubble fear and anxiety grip London and its residents. It would have been worthier, to my mind, for Pratchett to have just owned the connection and admitted his debt to Leiber, who is, after all, the best inspiration imaginable for a fantasist. The Clockmaker's Wife by Daisy Wood is a novel set in London in 1940 about Eleanor (Nell) Spelman, the wife of the clockmaker Arthur Spelman who maintains the chiming of Big Ben. His work consists of 391 titles, and he is best known as the creator of the fictional detective series consisting of 75 books featuring Inspector Maigret, translated into more than 50 languages and sold in more than 50 countries. Tallinn (as he claimed on some occasions) had a greater influence on it is patently absurd the two main sources are visibly Lankhmar and Dickensian London. Georges Simenon is one of the most addictive and bestselling European authors of the 20th Century. The Squire, narrator and persona of the author, and Sam Slick, a Yankee clockmaker, travel through contemporary Nova Scotia. This is not to say that we're talking about some grand crime, and certainly the city gradually develops its own character, but the lineaments are very obvious, and the idea that e.g. The Clockmaker can be regarded as a series of moral essays pointed by satire or as a picaresque novel whose plot is more episodic than that of most. Presumably, Pratchett was motivated in this ludicrous attempt at deceit by how critical the city ended up being in his own œuvre having started as a parodist, he was embarrassed at continuing as a half-plagiarist. I fell deeply in love with books as a child and believe that reading is freedom that to read is to live a thousand lives in one that fiction is a magical. These are startling lies, since the first time Ankh-Morpork is mentioned in the Discworld series, in the first book, The Colour of Magic, it's in connection with Bravd and the Weasel, overt parodies of Leiber's characters Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, who call Lankhmar home. The serial publication of The Clockmaker in 1835-36 launched Canadian judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton to literary fame. Bizarrely, Terry Pratchett denied this for his entire life and career, claiming first that it was a pure coïncidence, then at a later date that it must have been an unconscious influence. Not only is the name effectively the same with the addition at the end of the inherently humorous word »pork«, the city's character is clearly based on its precursor. On a non- diegetic level, Ankh-Morpork is a parody of Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar. Healthy animals with a balanced diet (free range chickens with access to seeds, plants, insects, earthworms, snails, small animals such as frogs, mice, etc) and regular exercise/physical activity taste way better than stuff like the crap that comes from factory farms. ![]()
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