I've read throughout the "Interesting Times" discussion thread, but haven't seen this one come up. I have two questions:
1. Should I post these questions in that thread? I thought about it, but the last post made there was 5.5 years ago. I've heard of thread-necromancy, but this is ridiculous.
On the other hand, if I should put it there, please feel free to delete this post and I'll re-create my questions there.
This question pertains to any of the DW books that I read, naturally (e.g. if I have a question re: COM, etc. - would it be better in that thread, or as its own thread).
2. My real question about IT is this:
Towards the end of the book, Rincewind remembers an old legend he once heard about mortality. The human soul, the legend goes, is like a bird that flies in from the blizzard outside into a great hall, filled with warmth. For a while, the bird stays inside and warms itself; but soon, it flies off again into the blizzard - and who knows where?
The moral is simple: For a while, like the bird, our souls live and warm themselves by the fires of mortality. But before we live, and after we die, our souls fly off like the bird - and who knows where?
In Rincewind's case, he supposes that the bird did something unmentionable to his dinner.
This sounds like something that TP made up for the book, but it's actually a well-known English legend that predates the Normans. I think it could be Viking, or even Saxon. (But, obviously, there's no mention of the bird soiling itself). *G*
Anyway, I've heard the legend before, and I found TP's version hilarious. I was just wondering if anyone else noticed it, because no one mentioned it in the thread. That's all.
1. Should I post these questions in that thread? I thought about it, but the last post made there was 5.5 years ago. I've heard of thread-necromancy, but this is ridiculous.
On the other hand, if I should put it there, please feel free to delete this post and I'll re-create my questions there.
This question pertains to any of the DW books that I read, naturally (e.g. if I have a question re: COM, etc. - would it be better in that thread, or as its own thread).
2. My real question about IT is this:
Towards the end of the book, Rincewind remembers an old legend he once heard about mortality. The human soul, the legend goes, is like a bird that flies in from the blizzard outside into a great hall, filled with warmth. For a while, the bird stays inside and warms itself; but soon, it flies off again into the blizzard - and who knows where?
The moral is simple: For a while, like the bird, our souls live and warm themselves by the fires of mortality. But before we live, and after we die, our souls fly off like the bird - and who knows where?
In Rincewind's case, he supposes that the bird did something unmentionable to his dinner.
This sounds like something that TP made up for the book, but it's actually a well-known English legend that predates the Normans. I think it could be Viking, or even Saxon. (But, obviously, there's no mention of the bird soiling itself). *G*
Anyway, I've heard the legend before, and I found TP's version hilarious. I was just wondering if anyone else noticed it, because no one mentioned it in the thread. That's all.
