Once More With Footnotes

spanners.
     
                  Without the hat I can leave home without a pen.
     
                  Without the hat, in fact, I can be myself.
     

 
     
     
T he T itles T hat G ot A way
     
                  You hold in your hands Once More* With Footnotes.
     
                  It's a good title, and Terry did provide plenty of introductions to all these delightful pieces. (But, to be completely honest about it all, not that many footnotes* ( *OK, so we did consider using the introductions as "footnotes", but they loo ked better above the title. And that makes them headnotes — big deal. Use your imagination! "Once More* With Footnotes" sounds better than "Once More* With Headnotes" — don'cha think? ) ).
     
                  It took us a long time to decide on the title. Y'see, we were all fool ing around at the beginning, and decided a great working title for the book would be "Oh Bugger." That swiftly morphed into "Oh Bugger, by Wossname." We got sorta fixated on it (and it really would have made a great title, right?)
     
                  But Terry said he'd hav e to live with the title the rest of his life ... so we had to (reluctantly, alas!) let it go.
     
                  And we had to think of other titles. These are some of them:
     
                  Ook!
                  At Night, All Worlds Are Flat
                                (alternatively, In The Dark, All Worlds Are Flat)
                  Cut Me Own Throat
                  Turtles All The Way
                  Witches and Wonders
                  Death and What Comes Next and what comes next ...
     
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                  ... but most of these were too "Discworldy" and we didn't want to be misleading ...
     
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    So we also thought of:
     
    Terry Go Round
    Mind the Magic
    Fra ctured Fantasy
    With a Head Full of Goblins
    Untitled (we were getting pretty worried)
    Without the Hat
    A Pratchett Miscellany
    and/or
    The Pratchett Files
                  (these latter two could be attached to any of the above, but could also be OK on their own?)
     
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                  And t hen we chose this one, and we're delighted with it ...* ( *But we still wish it could have been "Oh Bugger by Wossname" )
                  Enjoy.
     
    — Priscilla Olson
    June, 2004
     
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