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Death and What Comes Next
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A Death short-story that can be read in about three minutes.
The only thing that actually makes this a discworld story is a line on clouds about 'other worlds'.
Our favourite skeleton has a philosophical arguement with a philosopher leading to Death's eventually winning.
It's not really funny in a text sense but merely because we know Death's character and attitudes toward people and life.
Though not bad, the story seems rather pointless unless atheists need a decent arguement with those who believe in gods seeing this seems to be the direction the story goes, using items touched upon in The Science of Discworld II: The Globe such as gods merely being an idea that evolved from we apes looking for another word to ask for a banana [An idea that I enforce most heartilly].
It's Death, it's the Disc in feel, it's a 'heh-heh'.
It's not got anything on the proper novels, though. No, not even Moving Pictures.
Death and What Comes Next
Geggs Posted Oct 30, 2003
You managed to read it now then? Thought the Digibox problem meant that you couldn't?
Geggs
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Geggs Posted Oct 30, 2003
Good. Glad you were able to see it. Told you it was short.
I find myself thinking that the story is a 'shaggy dog' with one joke line at the end.
Admittedly, I thought the same thing about DNA's "Long Dark Teatime of the Soul", though that was a considerably long story.
Geggs
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 30, 2003
Righty ho, will do some slicin'n' dicin soon, am in a bit of a hurry right now 
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Death and What Comes Next
[...] Posted Oct 30, 2003
Okay blur...
Surely Theatre of Cruelty should be up??
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
It's been up for a while. Check the thread, if'n you want.
Death and What Comes Next
Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
Oh, and the slicin':
A "Death" short story that can be read in about three minutes.
The only thing that actually makes this a discworld story is a line about clouds on 'other worlds'.
Our favourite skeleton has a philosophical arguement with a philosopher leading to Death's eventual winning (of course). It's not really funny in a text sense but merely because we know Death's character and attitudes toward people and life.
Though not bad, the story seems rather pointless unless atheists need a decent arguement with those who believe in God - this seems to be the direction the story goes, using items touched upon in The Science of Discworld II: The Globe such as gods merely being an idea that evolved from we apes looking for another word to ask for a banana (An idea that I endorse most heartily). It's Death, it's the Disc in feel, it's a 'heh-heh'.
It's not got anything on the proper novels, though. No, not even Moving Pictures.
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Geggs Posted Oct 31, 2003
There's a typo in there. Twice. The spelling of argument. You've included an extra e.
Geggs
Death and What Comes Next
Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
So there is.
A "Death" short story that can be read in about three minutes.
The only thing that actually makes this a discworld story is a line about clouds on 'other worlds'.
Our favourite skeleton has a philosophical argument with a philosopher leading to Death's eventual winning (of course). It's not really funny in a text sense but merely because we know Death's character and attitudes toward people and life.
Though not bad, the story seems rather pointless unless atheists need a decent argument with those who believe in God - this seems to be the direction the story goes, using items touched upon in The Science of Discworld II: The Globe such as gods merely being an idea that evolved from we apes looking for another word to ask for a banana (An idea that I endorse most heartily). It's Death, it's the Disc in feel, it's a 'heh-heh'.
It's not got anything on the proper novels, though. No, not even Moving Pictures.
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Death and What Comes Next
[...] Posted Oct 31, 2003
1 star...
Read Theatre of Cruelty... feel the title is somewhat irrelevant...
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
Although I'm online, please forgive me if I don't put it up immediately; I'm in a somewhat inebriated state.
Wow, I typed that 
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
Right, I'll give it a go. I make no promises though.
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
It's up. Proof reading needs to be done, though...
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