Essayage

[gothwalk]

I'm writing an essay. It's about Pygmalion and Wide Sargasso Sea. I've only just started the the writing, and already I've had to stop twice to dig up obscrure things - references to the structure of Tom Brown's Schooldays and What Katy Did, so far. Now, however, I want a footnote from a Pratchett book. Which Pratchett book? I've no idea. And there are twenty-odd of them. I'm fairly sure it was a Discworld book. I'm fairly sure it was one of the middle ones - not the first two, and not the clearly themed ones. The footnote is after he's ended one scene on a dialogue question, and started the next with a dialogue answer, and the footnote says that this is a common technique in movies, and there's probably some fancy name for it, and it doesn't quite work, and you can't trust an industry with a job title like "Best Boy". Or something like that.

Anyone able to give me a dig out here, and tell me which book it is, and, better still, where in it the footnote is?

Comments

[luis-mw.livejournal.com]

IIRC - it's where they cut from Keli visiting Cutwell the wizard, where she just appointed him Royal Recogniser, back to Death's house. I have the PB edition somewhere downstairs.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Geh. Um, I'll ask my brother-in-law...

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Nemmind.

[juuro.livejournal.com]

In my Corgi paperback edition of 1997 it is not a footnote, but a parenthetical remark on page 116, at the location indicated by luis_mw.

(That was a cinematic trick adapted for print. Death wasn't talking to the princess. He was actually in his study, talking to Mort. But was was quite effective, wasn't it? It's probably called a fast dissolve, or a crosscut/zoom. Or something. An industry where a senior technician is called a Best Boy might call it anything.)

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Perfect, thank you!