Talk:How Do We Do It? Quaint and Curious Volume!

I'm not sure where the edit button on this page, but the adventure title contains two references: - In the Discworld book Lords and Ladies, the Bursar attacks a group of Elves whilst shouting nonsense: to whit, "Why certainly I'll have your whelk! How do we do it? Volume!" - The Edgar Allen Poe poem The Raven begins with the lines, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore"

Pratchett didn't invent that line... I believe it is/was common on advertising material, as an explanation for why prices could be so low. Googling only resulted in a 1970's Tom Waits song with the line as lyrics, but I'm pretty sure it was extant before that. --Starwed 04:09, 13 September 2010 (UTC)