Nice! A Ballard mention out in the wild. His stories could really creep into my mind.

Shaped like that? Not possible for me. But a Dalek saucer? That could work! 😅

Unfortunately, no, it is not real. (Otherwise, it'd be a case of shut up and take my money.)

Damn, never heard of her before, but almost every movie she was involved with at least rings a bell. More so, I watched quite a few multiple times since my childhood. RIP, Jane.

Sounds somewhat familiar! I wanted to become a bus driver, and became a mathematician.

While I find this analysis interesting on the one hand, I am also a little skeptical on the other. A reduction in the number of adjectives could also suggest that Terry's language was becoming sharper and more focused. I mean, at this point Terry still wrote Night watch, Going postal etc. As for me, things started to get kind of strange around Unseen Academicals. But then it had been already official that Terry was ill. So maybe I was already biased.

I read it as putting them into place mid-sentence (otherwise, I'd say the same)

DU. MACHST. DEN. KAKAO!!