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Sometimes, after a very long time, a thing is revealed to me that makes something I knew before EVEN MORE FUN than it was the first time around.
Like, for example, in the Pratchett novel "Soul Music", Imp y Celyn (Welsh for "Bud of the Holly", which is in itself delightful) won an award at a music festival in Llamedos (Sod 'em all backwards) called the eisteddfod. An eisteddfod is a real Welsh thing, a contest for poets and harpists. I did not know about eisteddfods when I read the book (the first time) and it was a small delight when I discovered, some time later, that eisteddfods were A Real Thing and not just a made-up funny-sounding pretend Welsh word.
(If you read enough Pratchett, you eventually get to the point to where if you think it's made-up, you check google first. A lot of the "sounds made-up" stuff is real. I think this is one of the more charming things about Pratchett books.)
( So another of these small delight moments happened today. )
Like, for example, in the Pratchett novel "Soul Music", Imp y Celyn (Welsh for "Bud of the Holly", which is in itself delightful) won an award at a music festival in Llamedos (Sod 'em all backwards) called the eisteddfod. An eisteddfod is a real Welsh thing, a contest for poets and harpists. I did not know about eisteddfods when I read the book (the first time) and it was a small delight when I discovered, some time later, that eisteddfods were A Real Thing and not just a made-up funny-sounding pretend Welsh word.
(If you read enough Pratchett, you eventually get to the point to where if you think it's made-up, you check google first. A lot of the "sounds made-up" stuff is real. I think this is one of the more charming things about Pratchett books.)
( So another of these small delight moments happened today. )
