A Conversation for Knockers: Their Role in Cornish Folklore
Agi Hammerthief
AgProv2 Started conversation Sep 4, 2007
Interesting that this looks like the source material for the character of Agi Hammerthief in Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels, where Agi becomes a myth within a fiction based upon folklore in our own dear Roundworld... talk about Russian dolls....
Agi Hammerthief
AgProv2 Posted Sep 5, 2007
Pratchett is amazing... his books read as if he's spent a lifetime soaking up odd bits of folklore, trivia, information of all kinds, and the discworld books are the way it's chosen to leak out into the universe again , in a transformed and enhanced state...
Agi Hammerthief
AgProv2 Posted Sep 5, 2007
I will agree that until I encountered the Sandman series, I tended to write off "graphic novels" as glorified overpriced comics... (Old attitude:- "I paid 15p a copy for 2000AD back in the day. So do I look like the sort of mug who'll pay fifteen quid for a reprint of the same grubby smudgy B&W comic strips?" New attitude: "The Sandman.... wow....")
"Good Omens" was a fantastic fusion of styles between Pratchett and Gaiman, I thought. Is there any truth in the story that they're doing a sequel: "668 - The Neighbour of the Beast" ?
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