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Newsletter of the Klatchian Foreign Legion
March 2016 (Volume 19, Issue 3, Post 1)
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WOSSNAME is a free publication offering news, reviews, and all the other stuff-that-fits pertaining to the works of Sir Terry Pratchett. Originally founded by the late, great Joe Schaumburger for members of the worldwide Klatchian Foreign Legion and its affiliates, including the North American Discworld Society and other continental groups, Wossname is now for Discworld and Pratchett fans everywhere in Roundworld.
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INDEX:
01) QUOTES OF THE MONTH
02) EDITOR'S LETTER
03) A FEW TIME-DEPENDENT THINGS
04) CLOSE
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01) QUOTES OF THE MONTH
"It is hard to look at a future without Terry, his humour, wicked bubble-pricking comments, his amazing inventiveness, his style, the deftness of his puns, and the deep moral sense that pervaded all of the books, without being obtrusive. Time and again readers of his books have told me how their lives had been shaped by them. And every time I finished reading a new book, I did so with a sense of immense satisfaction at having read yet another work by a master, at the tremendous sense of superb craftsmanship he had brought to the book, this amazing skill that produced books that can be read again and again over the years without ever feeling a loss of admiration, and discovering some historical or literary reference or joke that had passed me by on earlier readings. AS Byatt said in her tribute that 'No writer in my lifetime has given me as much pleasure and happiness'. I wholeheartedly endorse that."
– Colin Smythe, in his tribute in the Irish Times, 2015
"Anyone who has read one of Terry's novels will know how he could spin the most beautiful sentences and make his craft look effortless – it was what made him such a huge success. Now he was using that talent not for another piece of fiction, not for his own benefit at all, but to deal with a very real issue that we are all, at some point in our futures, going to have to face."
– Rob Wilkins, in his introduction to the published transcript of Shaking Hands with Death
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02) LETTER FROM YOUR EDITOR: REMEMBER HIS NAME
Today marks the first anniversary of the day Sir Terry Pratchett died.
Some months ago, I said in an editorial here that I refused to mourn his passing, preferring to only celebrate his life and work. That remains true to this day, but I have to admit that in an ideal world I would have wished for a different outcome. I would have wished, in an ideal world, that PCA had never taken my favourite author's brain in its horrible grip. I would have wished, in an ideal world, that he live to a grand old age, a productive old age, such as the ninety-three years achieved by PG Wodehouse, that luminous yet far lesser talent to whom Sir Terry's writing was often compared. I would rather he'd had the opportunity to lead us at a more relaxed pace through the social and technological changes of the Discworld, without the ever-growing spectre of memory and processing loss looming over his shoulder. In an ideal world, he would still be with us, still entertaining and educating us with the magical-in-all-ways worlds he created. But our world is not ideal, and that's not the way it happened.
It is customary in many parts of our world to mark certain anniversaries with a minute or two of silence, in order to pay respects. For Terry Pratchett, I suggest we show our respect doing the opposite, in ways of which he would have heartily approved. Make two minutes, not of silence, but of joyful noise. Read a Tiffany Aching book aloud in your best Nac Mac Feegle accent. Torment your nearest and dearest with ridiculous pun(n)(e)s***. Consider the wisdom of Granny Weatherwax, Pastor Oats, Lord Vetinari, Solomon Cohen, or Mau of the Nation. Turn a workmate or neighbour on to the works of Pratchett. And most of all, remember that Terence David John Pratchett, like so many of his creations, left the world a better place than he found it.
– Annie Mac, Editor
*** e.g. "What do you call it when two Fools divorce but can't decide who gets the children? A custardy battle!"
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03) A FEW TIME-DEPENDENT THINGS
3.0 PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE WANTS YOUR TRIBUTES
...for a new video:
"We are collecting fan tributes to create a video celebrating what Terry meant to his readers. If you’d like to be included, simply film a short clip of yourself (landscape) holding up, on a piece of plain paper, one or two words that sum up what Terry Pratchett and the Discworld means to you, whilst saying that word or phrase out loud. Send your clips in to discworld@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk by 18th March."
3.1 DISCWORLD PLAYS ON STAGE THIS WEEK
MASKERADE IN SOUTHEND
When: 15th - 19th March 2016
Venue: Dixon Studio, Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Southend, Essex, SS0 9LA (phone 01702 351135)
Time: all evening shows 7.30pm. Matinees on Thursday 17th and Saturday 19th March 2.30pm
Tickets: £11.50 and £12.50. A £1.50 per ticket booking fee applies capped at six per order. To purchase online, go to http://bit.ly/1nxQ6p8 and click on the Buy button for your chosen date.
http://www.eastessexplayers.co.uk/
http://www.sosac.co.uk/c/?776
MORT IN CHELMSFORD
When: NOW through 19th March 2016 (daily performances from Wednesdays to Saturdays)
Venue: The Old Court Theatre, 233 Springfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 (phone 01245 606505)
Email boxoffice@chelmsfordbc.gov.uk
Website www.ctw.org.uk
Time: 7.45pm all shows
Tickets: £10.00 (£9.00 for over-60s, Under-16s or Students). A £1.50 fee is applicable per transaction, except for cash and debit card payments made in person and by telephone (01245 606505). To purchase tickets online, go to http://bit.ly/1XiRW9i and click the Buy Tickets button for your desired date.
http://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/mort
MASKERADE IN WITHAM, ESSEX
When: Wed. 16th to Sat. 19th of March 2016
Venue: Witham Public Hall, Collingwood Road, Witham, Essex, CM8 2DY
Time: 7.45 pm all shows
Tickets: £10 advance, £12 on the door (for senior citizens and U16s, £8 in advance but £10 on the door; this discount is not available for the Friday and Saturday shows), available by phone (01621 892404), by emailing Contact@WithamDramatic.co.uk, or online at http://www.withamdramatic.co.uk/boxoffice.html
http://www.withamdramatic.co.uk/production.html#inprod
3.2 NAMING THE NEW WINCANTON BRIDGE
From the Western Gazette:
"Wincanton residents are to be given the opportunity to name a new bridge in the town. The bridge will provide access to a new play area in Cale Park, as a project to regenerate the recreation ground moves forward with its first phase. So far some of the suggestions have been inspired by the town's literary connections and its voluntary organisations, with possible names such as the Terry Pratchett memorial bridge or the C.A.T.C.H bridge being put forward. Other monikers being touted include the Queen Elizabeth II bridge, the Gateway bridge or the Troll bridge... A public consultation will be held on Friday, April 8 at the David Sharp Centre to encourage residents to learn more about the plans for the park and to submit their name ideas for the bridge. The consultation will also ask people what they wish the next phase of development at the park to focus on. Anyone interested in joining the Friends of Cale Park group or submitting a suggested name for the new bridge should contact town council clerk Sam Atherton on 01963 31693 or wincantontownclerk@hotmail.co.uk."
http://bit.ly/1SGPt9w
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04) CLOSE
The shortlist of eight books for this year's Carnegie prize has now been announced, and The Shepherd's Crown is on it. This is an appropriate remembrance, but the book deserves to be there anyway for its brilliance.
You can still apply for a ticket to attend the Terry Pratchett Memorial in April. Go to http://bit.ly/ticket-application any time until 14th March. "You may request a single ticket or a pair. Tickets will be chosen at random and successful applicants will be contacted as soon as possible after the ballot closes. Hope to see you there.
See you later this month, with the regular March issue. And now and always, GNU Terry Pratchett!
– Annie Mac
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The End. If you have any questions or requests, write: wossname-owner (at) pearwood (dot) info
Copyright (c) 2016 by Klatchian Foreign Legion
Newsletter of the Klatchian Foreign Legion
March 2016 (Volume 19, Issue 3, Post 1)
********************************************************************
WOSSNAME is a free publication offering news, reviews, and all the other stuff-that-fits pertaining to the works of Sir Terry Pratchett. Originally founded by the late, great Joe Schaumburger for members of the worldwide Klatchian Foreign Legion and its affiliates, including the North American Discworld Society and other continental groups, Wossname is now for Discworld and Pratchett fans everywhere in Roundworld.
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INDEX:
01) QUOTES OF THE MONTH
02) EDITOR'S LETTER
03) A FEW TIME-DEPENDENT THINGS
04) CLOSE
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
01) QUOTES OF THE MONTH
"It is hard to look at a future without Terry, his humour, wicked bubble-pricking comments, his amazing inventiveness, his style, the deftness of his puns, and the deep moral sense that pervaded all of the books, without being obtrusive. Time and again readers of his books have told me how their lives had been shaped by them. And every time I finished reading a new book, I did so with a sense of immense satisfaction at having read yet another work by a master, at the tremendous sense of superb craftsmanship he had brought to the book, this amazing skill that produced books that can be read again and again over the years without ever feeling a loss of admiration, and discovering some historical or literary reference or joke that had passed me by on earlier readings. AS Byatt said in her tribute that 'No writer in my lifetime has given me as much pleasure and happiness'. I wholeheartedly endorse that."
– Colin Smythe, in his tribute in the Irish Times, 2015
"Anyone who has read one of Terry's novels will know how he could spin the most beautiful sentences and make his craft look effortless – it was what made him such a huge success. Now he was using that talent not for another piece of fiction, not for his own benefit at all, but to deal with a very real issue that we are all, at some point in our futures, going to have to face."
– Rob Wilkins, in his introduction to the published transcript of Shaking Hands with Death
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
02) LETTER FROM YOUR EDITOR: REMEMBER HIS NAME
Today marks the first anniversary of the day Sir Terry Pratchett died.
Some months ago, I said in an editorial here that I refused to mourn his passing, preferring to only celebrate his life and work. That remains true to this day, but I have to admit that in an ideal world I would have wished for a different outcome. I would have wished, in an ideal world, that PCA had never taken my favourite author's brain in its horrible grip. I would have wished, in an ideal world, that he live to a grand old age, a productive old age, such as the ninety-three years achieved by PG Wodehouse, that luminous yet far lesser talent to whom Sir Terry's writing was often compared. I would rather he'd had the opportunity to lead us at a more relaxed pace through the social and technological changes of the Discworld, without the ever-growing spectre of memory and processing loss looming over his shoulder. In an ideal world, he would still be with us, still entertaining and educating us with the magical-in-all-ways worlds he created. But our world is not ideal, and that's not the way it happened.
It is customary in many parts of our world to mark certain anniversaries with a minute or two of silence, in order to pay respects. For Terry Pratchett, I suggest we show our respect doing the opposite, in ways of which he would have heartily approved. Make two minutes, not of silence, but of joyful noise. Read a Tiffany Aching book aloud in your best Nac Mac Feegle accent. Torment your nearest and dearest with ridiculous pun(n)(e)s***. Consider the wisdom of Granny Weatherwax, Pastor Oats, Lord Vetinari, Solomon Cohen, or Mau of the Nation. Turn a workmate or neighbour on to the works of Pratchett. And most of all, remember that Terence David John Pratchett, like so many of his creations, left the world a better place than he found it.
– Annie Mac, Editor
*** e.g. "What do you call it when two Fools divorce but can't decide who gets the children? A custardy battle!"
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
03) A FEW TIME-DEPENDENT THINGS
3.0 PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE WANTS YOUR TRIBUTES
...for a new video:
"We are collecting fan tributes to create a video celebrating what Terry meant to his readers. If you’d like to be included, simply film a short clip of yourself (landscape) holding up, on a piece of plain paper, one or two words that sum up what Terry Pratchett and the Discworld means to you, whilst saying that word or phrase out loud. Send your clips in to discworld@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk by 18th March."
3.1 DISCWORLD PLAYS ON STAGE THIS WEEK
MASKERADE IN SOUTHEND
When: 15th - 19th March 2016
Venue: Dixon Studio, Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Southend, Essex, SS0 9LA (phone 01702 351135)
Time: all evening shows 7.30pm. Matinees on Thursday 17th and Saturday 19th March 2.30pm
Tickets: £11.50 and £12.50. A £1.50 per ticket booking fee applies capped at six per order. To purchase online, go to http://bit.ly/1nxQ6p8 and click on the Buy button for your chosen date.
http://www.eastessexplayers.co.uk/
http://www.sosac.co.uk/c/?776
MORT IN CHELMSFORD
When: NOW through 19th March 2016 (daily performances from Wednesdays to Saturdays)
Venue: The Old Court Theatre, 233 Springfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 (phone 01245 606505)
Email boxoffice@chelmsfordbc.gov.uk
Website www.ctw.org.uk
Time: 7.45pm all shows
Tickets: £10.00 (£9.00 for over-60s, Under-16s or Students). A £1.50 fee is applicable per transaction, except for cash and debit card payments made in person and by telephone (01245 606505). To purchase tickets online, go to http://bit.ly/1XiRW9i and click the Buy Tickets button for your desired date.
http://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/mort
MASKERADE IN WITHAM, ESSEX
When: Wed. 16th to Sat. 19th of March 2016
Venue: Witham Public Hall, Collingwood Road, Witham, Essex, CM8 2DY
Time: 7.45 pm all shows
Tickets: £10 advance, £12 on the door (for senior citizens and U16s, £8 in advance but £10 on the door; this discount is not available for the Friday and Saturday shows), available by phone (01621 892404), by emailing Contact@WithamDramatic.co.uk, or online at http://www.withamdramatic.co.uk/boxoffice.html
http://www.withamdramatic.co.uk/production.html#inprod
3.2 NAMING THE NEW WINCANTON BRIDGE
From the Western Gazette:
"Wincanton residents are to be given the opportunity to name a new bridge in the town. The bridge will provide access to a new play area in Cale Park, as a project to regenerate the recreation ground moves forward with its first phase. So far some of the suggestions have been inspired by the town's literary connections and its voluntary organisations, with possible names such as the Terry Pratchett memorial bridge or the C.A.T.C.H bridge being put forward. Other monikers being touted include the Queen Elizabeth II bridge, the Gateway bridge or the Troll bridge... A public consultation will be held on Friday, April 8 at the David Sharp Centre to encourage residents to learn more about the plans for the park and to submit their name ideas for the bridge. The consultation will also ask people what they wish the next phase of development at the park to focus on. Anyone interested in joining the Friends of Cale Park group or submitting a suggested name for the new bridge should contact town council clerk Sam Atherton on 01963 31693 or wincantontownclerk@hotmail.co.uk."
http://bit.ly/1SGPt9w
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04) CLOSE
The shortlist of eight books for this year's Carnegie prize has now been announced, and The Shepherd's Crown is on it. This is an appropriate remembrance, but the book deserves to be there anyway for its brilliance.
You can still apply for a ticket to attend the Terry Pratchett Memorial in April. Go to http://bit.ly/ticket-application any time until 14th March. "You may request a single ticket or a pair. Tickets will be chosen at random and successful applicants will be contacted as soon as possible after the ballot closes. Hope to see you there.
See you later this month, with the regular March issue. And now and always, GNU Terry Pratchett!
– Annie Mac
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The End. If you have any questions or requests, write: wossname-owner (at) pearwood (dot) info
Copyright (c) 2016 by Klatchian Foreign Legion
