Horace the Cheese

[SWkelda]

In what book does Horace first appear? I just re-read A HAT FULL OF SKY and there is a cheese in it that Tiffany, controlled by the Hiver creates. Is that Horace? Just trying get my facts straight.
Thanks,

[Tonyblack]

Welcome to the site, SWkelda!

I'm fairly certain that Horace makes his debute in A Hat Full of Sky after Tiffany's failed attempt to make a Lance Blue. He's in the Tiffany books after that as well.

Just to add - Tiffany, under the control of the Hiver tries to make a cheese, but ultimately that doesn't work once the magic wears off. That cheese isn't Horace though.

[Tonyblack]

I'm now having second thoughts about which book Horace first appears in. Maybe it's Wintersmith and not Hat Full of Sky he's first in.

[Toothy]

I'm pretty sure it's Wintersmith, Tony.

[Who's Wee Dug]

Just last week I listened to Wintersmith again and Horace was defininitely mentioned in it.

[swreader]

Tiffany, you are right. On p. 90 of the British edition is the first mention of Horace. Tiffany talks earlier about Miss Treason wanting the cheeses she makes coated black, but Horace has been a problem, and a champion Lancre Blue with strange qualities from the beginning.

I suppose the real question is why Terry created Horace in the first place? I guess that he makes a perfect pet for Daft Wullie (one of the more prominent of the Feegles). I think he's one of the comic elements that Terry puts in this book, though I find him more odd than funny.

[Tonyblack]

It's my belief that Terry included Horace in the book (and it is indeed Wintersmith) for the sole purpose of a very groan-worthy joke on page 366 of the British copy.

'Why am I sitting next to a blue cheese with a bit of tartan wrapped around it?
'Ah, that'd be Horace,' said Rob Anybody. 'He's Daft Wullie's pal. He's no' being' a nuisance, is he?'
'No. But he's trying to sing!'
'Aye, all blue cheeses hum a bit.'

I groaned out loud when I read that, but chatting to swreader about it, she hadn't 'got' the joke as it seems to 'hum' is a Britishism.

For those of you who also didn't get it. In Britain we say that something very smelly is humming.

[Who's Wee Dug]

That made me chuckle when I heard it, as I had forgotten that bit in the book. I would love to see the Feegles in another book.

[=Tamar]

I would love to see the Feegles in another book.

There's _a_ Feegle in Snuff, but not a group of them.

[MongoGutman]

I'm re-reading Carpe Jugulum and I had completely forgotten the Nac Mac Feegles were in it, thought they were solely a Tiffany element

[Who's Wee Dug]

I'm re-reading Carpe Jugulum and I had completely forgotten the Nac Mac Feegles were in it, thought they were solely a Tiffany element

They are slighty different bunch in that one, I think it was the 1st time the Feegles were mentioned was in Carpe Jugulum.

[Tonyblack]

I'm re-reading Carpe Jugulum and I had completely forgotten the Nac Mac Feegles were in it, thought they were solely a Tiffany element

They are slighty different bunch in that one, I think it was the 1st time the Feegles were mentioned was in Carpe Jugulum.

Much more difficult to understand too!

[MongoGutman]

I'm re-reading Carpe Jugulum and I had completely forgotten the Nac Mac Feegles were in it, thought they were solely a Tiffany element

They are slighty different bunch in that one, I think it was the 1st time the Feegles were mentioned was in Carpe Jugulum.

Much more difficult to understand too!

Yeah, I've given up trying to work out what they're supposed to be saying.

[Tonyblack]

I found it helped if you read out loud.

[Who's Wee Dug]

AND NOW!! Horace the Cheese may have a pal as in Horace the Haggis.