Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11) (Discworld Novels)

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The Rite of AshkEnte (also Ashk'Ente or Ash'Kente) is the ancient magic ritual that summons and binds Death into a circle and prevents him from leaving until invited to do so by the summoning wizard.

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They had discussed this with Death and had turned down his offer to extend the duration of their existence by letting them stay in his domain, on the grounds that it would not be the same as actually lengthening their lives.

Unfortunately for Mort, his feelings for a teenage princess of Sto Lat get in the way of his job and he starts off a chain reaction of events by impulsively preventing her assassination. Samuel Vimes has a near-death experience, which means that Death has a corresponding "near-Vimes experience", in which he appears before the stricken Vimes sitting in a deckchair reading a mystery novel. The subject purports to be serious and was used to test the credulity of new boys at Ottershaw School in Surrey, who were encouraged to wait outside the Main gate for the coach that would take them on an outing to the Chobham Treacle Mines on their first Sunday off.

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In Greek mythology it was a golden apple that indirectly led to the Trojan war and to the accompanying complete division of the divine pantheon into two opposing camps. He was one of a disparate multitude of death-personifications created during Death's absence in Reaper Man. This line echoes page 24 of Mort, where Death says to Mort: "I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY". This line connects a reference to the Nightmare on Elm Street series of horror movies with the tentative title for a Good Omens sequel: 668 -- The Neighbour of the Beast (see the Good Omens annotation on that subject).In the 1997 animated adaptations of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters, Death was voiced by Christopher Lee. Once a wizard and founder of the Unseen University, he attempted to gain immortality by reciting the Rite of AshkEnte (a ritual to summon Death) backwards, believing this would force Death to stay away from him. The title Reaper Man parodies Alex Cox's 1984 cult movie Repo Man, which is itself a pun on 'reaper man', a very ancient name for Death (compare also e.

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The towels he originally constructed are also useless; he did not realize that they had to bend, fold and be soft. Windle, Reg, and a band of Ankh-Morpork’s undead citizens team up to try to save Discworld for the living.A fragment of this book was adapted in 1996 into a short animated movie entitled Welcome to the Discworld, featuring Christopher Lee as Death. When acting as a stand-in for the Hogfather (a figure similar to Santa Claus) he starts by greeting the children with Cower, brief mortals from force of habit until reminded not to do so. Terry Pratchett – Reaper Man Audiobook (Discworld Book 11) Terry Pratchett – Reaper Man Audiobook https://ipaudio. Page 132 - "On the fabled hidden continent of Xxxx, somewhere near the rim, there is a lost colony of wizards who wear corks around their pointy hats and live on nothing but prawns.

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Death is both the servant and a part of The Old High One known as Azrael, the Death of Universes and ruler of all deaths. Since the ingredients of Discworld's sauce contain sulphur and saltpetre, and they along with charcoal are the basic ingredients of gunpowder, he likely blew up - not quite so mysterious. And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only sensible course would be to despair. This line is a take-off on the legend of The Pied Piper of Hamelin popularized in the Robert Browning poem. However Pratchett likewise includes a feeling of impact as the Reaper takes part in an earthbound sentiment with the to some degree befuddled, yet solid willed Miss Flitworth.In addition to the inside of the house being larger than the outside, there are doors that reach a height of several yards and at the same time are only a few feet tall. He does not cause people to die, nor does he concern himself with their goodness or badness in life; it is simply his job to collect their souls at the appointed time. In The Light Fantastic, Death was summoned to be asked about the recent mass wave of magic that had apparently done nothing, revealing that the Octavo had taken action to prevent the eighth spell dropping off the Disc so that all eight spells could be used to prevent the imminent destruction of the world. His home within the domain looks like a Victorian house with a garden that is well-tended, but is predominantly in shades of black and decorated with a skull and crossbones motif.