Terry Pratchett (was: Smell of Cabbage)
bluesqueak
pipdowns at etchells0.demon.co.uk
Sun May 4 11:39:22 UTC 2003
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "abigailnus"
<abigailnus at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z" <lupinesque at y...>
wrote:
> > Death, for example, stars in only a handful but appears in
almost
> > all [all? someone must know] of them, appropriately enough.
>
> Death is the only Discworld character to appear in every single
one of the Discworld novels. Someone pointed it out a few years
ago, and by this point I think it's a matter of pride with Terry.
That and, of course, in every book at least one person has to die.
>
> Abigail
He seems to have broken that rule with the 'Wee Free Men', possibly
because he couldn't work out how to get Death in the book in a child-
friendly way.
Unless he has a non-speaking role somewhere, and I just didn't spot
it on the first reading.
Pip
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