Stories, Fire, Pratchett

From: Jane Williams <janewill_at_mail.nildram.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 22:16:31 +0000

What a lot of wonderful Elmal stories! Naturally, they're all equally true. I loved the idea of Yelm keeping Truth locked up so he could ignore it: sounds very familiar. Will all of these be available on the Web somewhere? Please?

Shargash: if it was appropriate for the Story that Elmal won the fight, then of course he could beat him. (Who was writing it??) You can't argue with the Story. If you disagree with this theory, read more Terry Pratchett.

Which reminds me: has anyone else noticed that most of the laws of hero-questing can be found in Pratchett books? The million-to-one-chance rule, the Story rule, the idea that it doesn't matter what your skills are, it's your self-definition that counts: he's even got the Goddess of Wisdom being proved by hero-questing(?) to hold a penguin, not an owl. So far the sun-gods haven't proved too puzzling, though. Should this worry me??

Quivin, the Fire god: I'd forgotten all about him, thanks. Now, what relation is there betweeen him and the Flame of Sartar? And did he (as a Fire/Earth god) help raise the walls of Boldhome with lava?

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