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== Thought on what the Two Meanings of Snuff the title refers to: ==

* Or perhaps it's about Vimes' aging... not longer feeling "up to snuff" as it were. Or perhaps it refers to Angua's method of snuffing out clues. Or [[Discworld/Feet of Clay|Snuffing out a candle.]]

* Perhaps this book will follow up on the "extreme sneezing" Vetinari mentioned in ''[[Discworld/Making Money|Making Money]]''?

== [[Discworld/Thud!|Methodia Rascal's chicken]] will return. ==

* I'd leave it up to Pratchett to make it into a philosphicalphilosophical question. Like "Why did the Chicken cross the road?", complete with bafflement and misunderstandings by the cast. And then have it be sybolic of the plot somhow, because as we all know, the Chicken crossed the road to see what was on The Other Side.

Pratchett mentioned in the interview with Gaiman, that he has some ideas for a book about Harry Dread, the Evil Overlord that appears in ''[[The Last Hero]]''. Well, now we have Vimes with his Summoning Dark "symbiote", and we have Vimes with his Beast, the part of him that sometimes just wants to beat the bad guys to death, but that he always manages to keep at bay. At some point, Harry Dread is going to notice this lethal combination, perhaps he will be looking for the Summoning Dark in an attempt to improve his evil lord status, or to restore The Code which he will perceive as having disappeared from the world, and will discover where the Summoning Dark is. Then he will realize that what he actually has to do is free Vimes from the Summoning Dark, or perhaps the Summoning Dark from Vimes, because in the current state the combination is a ticking time bomb that would create a villain who exists in complete opposite of The Code. -Just imagine what kind of villain Vimes would make, and shiver- At the end, Harry Dread will end up saving Vimes, and in the process will realize that The Code remains, only in a more complex nuanced way.

Basically the only person who would employ Goblins before the events of ''Snuff'' was Harry King, who is not horribly old. A Goblin great grandmother has spent her life here. On the same note, a major plot point is the fact that they had a high attrition rate, which considering the fact that they survived as long as they did suggests that they have a replacement rate to match. Sam Vime's speculation of age was simply a guess from someone who frankly did not know much about Goblins. Even under optimum conditions, Goblins are lucky if they live to see multiple decades.

== Nobby Nobbs has a goblin somewhere in his family tree. ==

While he's not the only [[Complete Monster]] villain to bear a strong resemblance to Carcer, he's probably the ''most'' similar, in actions and in other characters' descriptions--arguablydescriptions—arguably to the point of being a full [[Expy]]. Maybe that's just random coincidence, or maybe it's the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]]...or maybe it's just [[In the Blood]]. Stratford isn't from Ankh-Morpork, but that doesn't really refute anything: he could've been born there and left sometime before ''Snuff'' happened, or Carcer could've grown up in the country and only come to A-M shortly before ''Night Watch'', or possibly the [[Missing Mom]] left A-M to keep up a [[Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism]]. And since we don't know how old Carcer was in ''Night Watch''and six years later Stratford is only in his early twenties, it's absolutely mathematically plausible.