Equal Rites (Terry David John Pratchett) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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Neil Gaiman is the author of the acclaimed Sandman comics series, as well as Terry’s co-author on Good Omens.

Liber Paginarum Fulvarum is a dog-Latin title that translates to Book of Yellow Pages, i.e. not the Book of the Dead, but rather the Phonebook of the Dead. The book appears in Good Omens as well as in Sandman, where it is used in an attempt to summon Death (although the colourist didn’t get the joke and simply coloured the pages brown). Terry said (when questioned about it in a Good Omens context):

"Liber Paginarum Fulvarum is a kind of shared gag. It’s in the dedication of Equal Rites, too. Although I think we’ve got the shade of yellow wrong — I think there’s another Latin word for a kind of yellow which is closer to the Yellow Pages colour."

The other word for yellow Terry is thinking of may possibly be ‘gilvus’, or ‘croceus’, or ‘luteus’.