the book is the last continent. there's a character rincewind, who is always attracting trouble (and Death), and sees death (the personification, who is a character in the books too) sometimes when he might possibly die (and death is sort of fascinated by rincewind, because his probability of death is completely messed up, so even death doesn't know when he actually WILL die).
i don't have the book here right now, but at one point when he might die, death is there and rincewind asks if it's true your life passes before your eyes before you die, and death says YES (death always talks in caps), and rincewind is all oh, no, what if this is it? what if this is my life passing before my eyes. and death says:
I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED 'LIVING'. WOULD YOU LIKE A PRAWN?
death is my favorite discworld character after the witches :) (he has a pretty white horse named binky, too -- he tried a flaming skeletal horse but decided he preferred a living one)
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Date: 2008-04-03 08:25 pm (UTC)i don't have the book here right now, but at one point when he might die, death is there and rincewind asks if it's true your life passes before your eyes before you die, and death says YES (death always talks in caps), and rincewind is all oh, no, what if this is it? what if this is my life passing before my eyes. and death says:
I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED 'LIVING'. WOULD YOU LIKE A PRAWN?
death is my favorite discworld character after the witches :) (he has a pretty white horse named binky, too -- he tried a flaming skeletal horse but decided he preferred a living one)
(edited for lots of spelling oopses)