Good interview.
Pterry mentions doing a lot of reading in lesbian bookshops for Monstrous Regiment, which pleases me.
And the interview is conducted by one Neil Gaiman.
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She finished the drink, hefted the sword over one shoulder, and looked around at the puzzled factions, who now encircled her completely. ‘Sorry to run out on you, chaps,’ she said. ‘Would love to stay and get to know you better.’
The men in the room suddenly realized they didn’t want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, but not up close.
And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.
Red ginger, black spices, patchouli, honeysuckle, and three blood-soaked red musks.
… Good Omens asks viewers not to take it, or the apocalypse, too seriously. But it would be a mistake to take it as just a lark. A humanist raised in the Church of England, Pratchett had a long, irreverent interest in gods and belief systems. Born to a Jewish family that practiced Scientology and educated in Anglican schools, Gaiman conveys in his work an even more intense fascination with religion and mythology.
DETRITUS THINKS IN BINARY, that’s bloody brilliant!!!
Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!, subtitled: A Total Whittle Unwittingly Romances An Enormous And Powerful Woman
Terry Pratchett’s Men At Arms, subtitled: There Is More Than One Word That Starts With W
Transcribed:
“My favourite bit to write would be Crowley and his plant mister. There is a scene with Crowley, his plants, a bucket of water, and two demons, which was one of the most enjoyable scenes I’ve ever written.
There’s another scene that I remember just writing with joy and phoning Terry Pratchett after I’ve written it, and saying I’ve just written the scene with the Other Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse naming each other on their way to their rather fishy doom.
My favourite sequence that Terry wrote is earlier in the book, and it’s Crowley and Aziraphale having a conversation about people, about time, about heaven, and about a large bird that is flying across the universe to sharpen its beak, and what this means for doom. And it’s just one of the most marvelous sequences, I think, that Terry’s ever written.”
(via BBC Radio 4 - Good Omens, Episode 1, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens cameo)
“In an exclusive cameo appearance from Good Omens Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman play two coppers who get more than they bargain for when they attempt to stop a speeding car belonging to the demon Crowley (played by Peter Serafinowicz).”
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