Poll: grim reaper how do you feel about him
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Hey you can't possibly be having this disscusion without mentioning he who stalks the traps can you, ladies and gentlemen, I give you...
My discworld sense is saying that Death is an unsuprisingly black humored individual who has a personal vendetta against wizards.
My personal humor is saying he has been reduced to the worlds greatest prank on old people. So many variations of people dressing up as him with a scythe outside Old Peoples Care Homes have appeared, it has to be funny.
My personal opinion is that I hope the Grim is just like Botan from Yu Yu Hakusho... but thats just me and my fetish for blue haired babes.
My personal humor is saying he has been reduced to the worlds greatest prank on old people. So many variations of people dressing up as him with a scythe outside Old Peoples Care Homes have appeared, it has to be funny.
My personal opinion is that I hope the Grim is just like Botan from Yu Yu Hakusho... but thats just me and my fetish for blue haired babes.
i work for him part time. hired in the basis that i have a cloak and scythe.
he seems nice enough. he enjoys his job, and sends me a list every month containing people's names and when they are supposed to die. he seems ok with me being a little off though, which is a relief since i still make mistakes. people should wear name-tags, or else it's confusing.
he seems nice enough. he enjoys his job, and sends me a list every month containing people's names and when they are supposed to die. he seems ok with me being a little off though, which is a relief since i still make mistakes. people should wear name-tags, or else it's confusing.
Amusingly when you think about Soul Music, the Death in Good Omens (a collaboration between Pratchett and Gaiman) is a biker, well, all the 'Horsemen' of the apocalypse are, but it's amusing anyway.Agent Larkin said:Ahem:
What's not to love?
I won't lynch you, Max, you're just misguided, of course the Easter Bunny is real.MaxTheReaper said:
What part remains uncler? Pratchett has many books with Death as an appearing character in them. He is an Antropomorphic Personification as Death is so quick to remind us all;In Discworld belief has power and everyone believes in death, hence the power began to pile up around the concept of death and Death, the Grim Reaper, was born. When something dies, Death is there.AvsJoe said:
The book Mort is all about his taking on an apprentice, partly in an effort to understand humans more. Susan Sto Helit, Death's granddaughter is also present in many books, the Hogfather and Soul Music are ones where she is a main character.
From wikipedia
Death is fascinated by humanity. His interest is coupled with bafflement: it's a favorite point of Pratchett's that the habits and beliefs that are grown into instead of being rationally acquired are an essential part of being human. As Death is an outside observer, his imitations are intricate but marked by a fundamental lack of comprehension. When acting as a stand-in for the Hogfather he starts by greeting the children with "Cower, brief mortals" from force of habit, until reminded not to do so. He is especially intrigued by humanity's ability to complicate their own existence, and their ability to actually get up in the morning without going insane from the sheer prospect of what life entails (from his perspective).
In many ways, he is a character who epitomises the bleakness of human existence. In Reaper Man, in which he is rendered temporarily mortal, he becomes frustrated and infuriated with the unfair inevitability of death, a theme that continues through later books. In Soul Music he expresses misery at the fact that he is capable of preventing deaths but is forbidden to do so. Despite his general lack of emotion, the Auditors of Reality are one of the few things actually capable of angering him. Terry Pratchett even says in The Art of Discworld that he has received a number of letters from terminally ill fans in which they hope that Death will resemble the Discworld incarnation (he also says that those particular letters usually cause him to spend some time staring at the wall).
Death has developed considerably since his first appearance in The Colour of Magic. In this, he was quite a malicious character. At one point he deliberately stops a character's heart, though this may have been Death's "stand-in," Scrofula. By the time of Mort he had gained the sympathetic and humorous personality he has in later books. In more recent novels, he has been used to examine recent developments in theoretical physics as, being a supernatural being, he is able to witness such events firsthand, although being a cat lover, he is not fond of the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, believing it cruel to the cats involved.
And a pretty cool grand daughter. And he loves curry.Machines Are Us said:
But I would argue that the grim reaper is a metaphor; a vestige from an older agricultural society.
I see him as someone who understands the inherent value of life, because he does nothing but take it away. He has lost his humanity and mourns the fact that people are so willing to give away theirs. He's not emo, just tired of his job.
Cowbell Cowbell Cowbell Cowbell, Nah-nah nah-nah. Seasons don't fear the reaper, nor do the wind the sun and the rain, I am quite like they are.
I've never read any of the Discworld novels, so that portrayal is kinda blocked.
So let me just but it this way. "Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee."
So let me just but it this way. "Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee."
Could you direct me to this book. I love On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony. It's about Death as a person so I might like this one too.SakSak said: