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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