Talk:Geoffrey Swivel

Re: breaking the sound barrier. "There was a distant boom", but flying unprotected at 1200 Km/hr without being torn to shreds seems too fantastic for Discworld. I think it was mentioned before that 70 mi/hr was about tops for a broomstick, which is already a severe wind to hang on in. --Old Dickens (talk) 17:35, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Edit of 2 July

I'm having some trouble finding justification for the accusation of sexism and the apparent elitism in the latest submission here.

See Tiffany's (and Nanny's) rather glowing assessment of Geoffrey on p.322 . Mrs Earwig then says that "he's no witch", as the Wizards would say Eskarina was no wizard, but she's found her own method and path and her art is just as good, if a little different. Geoffrey has no training at all, but he's acquired Granny's steading on sheer talent and will have to develop his unique style as well. Calm-weaving may be his specialty, as other Witches and Wizards have theirs, but it doesn't have to limit him.

Petulia Gristle is undeniably "good with pigs": so good that she won the Witch Trials by doing the Pig Trick without a pig. She can also bore an elf to death. They don't get to be Witches "on the sole qualification of being 'good with pigs'". That would be a farmer.

Who said Tiffany "wasn't meant to be a Witch"? Not Miss Tick, and it seems generally counter-intuitive. How is she not "willing to accommodate Geoffrey's aspirations"? --Old Dickens (talk) 00:06, 3 July 2016 (UTC)