this is an excellent quote about the stories we tell but it also highlights one of my very favorite things about Death: he just thinks humans are really neat
he doesn’t GET humans, exactly, but he’s fascinated and it’s adorable
I'm reading The Light Fantastic and I got to the part last night where Twoflower is teaching Death how to play bridge, and Death is so confused but also determined to understand it. It's great stuff
it's one of the things that makes Reaper Man so wonderful - a lot of curiosities click into place during Death's brief experience with something like mortality
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he doesn’t GET humans, exactly, but he’s fascinated and it’s adorable
And also, the Death of Rats is great - just because they're the Death of Rats.
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