User talk:Guybrush

Damn! That's quite a résumé. You seem busier than our AgProv and getting paid for it too; it's a shame you only visit every year or so. --Old Dickens (talk) 02:07, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

I only just noticed this! Thanks for the compliment; I’m also trying to visit more regularly! Guybrush (talk) 04:32, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Just listened to your podcast

I very much enjoyed the Wintersmith episode on my drive across Virginia and North Carolina today. Thank you! So, whenever I reread Wintersmith, I read the opening chapter twice - once at the beginning, and once again in its actual place in the narrative, before the last chapter. I've always thought that the events in that chapter certainly did happen! I need to reread again, of course. I've listened to Hadestown (the new-ish musical) enough that I probably have a new perspective on the Roland plot. Youall have given me lots to think about. Moishe Rosenbaum (talk) 05:30, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Sorry to butt in, but what a coincidence! Anaïs Mitchell is one of my favorite musicians (and with Jefferson Hamer, one of my favorite acts). I suppose you've heard Child Ballads? --Old Dickens (talk) 06:02, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Well now I want to listen to Hadestown! And thanks Moishe for the kind words; always good to hear from a listener. And yeah, that opening chapter clearly happens as far as I'm concerned; I think Garth and Liz got a bit hung up on Terry's closing remarks about it "not having happened yet". Please do send us a question for an upcoming episode; as I write this, the next one is Night Watch! -- Guybrush (talk) 00:53, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Awesome. Night Watch is amazing. Sam Vimes and John Keel could tell American policepeople something about appropriate use of authority.

On the way home I listened to the Fifth Elephant episode. I love the Carrot B-plot - it develops not just Carrot's, but also Angua's, character substantially. To me, Gavin is the wolf version of Carrot. Angua is always caught between being a wolf and a human; now she's in a love triangle with a wolf and a human, while trying to fend off her Nazi brother. You're right that we never see inside Carrot's head, but through his actions (and through Gaspode's and Vimes's observations) we see the Machiavellian Carrot. There was a thread on the old alt.books.pratchett site entitled "Nasty Carrot?" that helped me see into how, likely, Carrot was cleverly plotting toward his endgame of being Angua's man.

Looks like youall have been going for a while! I won't run out of episodes anytime soon. I started Nation, and I'll finish that on an upcoming dog walk. Thanks!

(Oh, and Old Dickens, I'm gonna download Child Ballads. I've *not* heard it, but I will soon!) Moishe Rosenbaum (talk) 02:05, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

You've been busy again! Nice to see something on the screen beside me and the trolls. --Old Dickens (talk) 01:08, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

It’s amazing how much more free time you can muster when you’ve finished studying! Though teaching is still taking up a lot of my time. Thanks for all your troll-bashing! Guybrush (talk) 04:09, 3 November 2024 (UTC)