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Good Omens

Is the Death in "Good Omens" the same Death in Discworld or are they both just based on the same Death that is based on the tradational view of the personal Death in the West?

The latter. Although there are some similarities, on account of both having been written by Terry Pratchett, they're two different takes on the Grim Reaper archetype, not the same character. —Paul A 01:42, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I'd think that'd depend on which way you wanted to interpret the book. Unless Pratchett (and Gaiman) made some definite statement about the matter, forming opinions on the matter's fair game for all. Naturally I would see the Grim Reaper more as a different take on the Discworld Death, rather than on the archetypal Western personification of Death.

- Written by someone who doesn't know how to sign these wikipedia thingies.

I would like to modify this line:

As Pratchett and Gaiman were living in different countries at the time, and as the writing of the book predated widespread use of the Internet, the collaboration took place largely over the telephone, with Pratchett (the more experienced novelist) doing the majority of the actual writing.

...with the following (changes in italics)...

As Pratchett and Gaiman were living in different countries at the time, and as the writing of the book predated widespread use of the Internet, the collaboration took place largely over the telephone, with Pratchett holding the master copy and doing the majority of the actual writing.

My feelings are that the paranthetical comment "the more experienced novelist" is POV and isn't quite in the spirit of the original quote (available here).

Thoughts? Opinions? I'll hold action for a bit in case someone wishes to counter my suggestion.InkSplotch 21:08, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd just remove the parenthesised section entirely, IMO there is no need for your addition. NicM 21:13, 16 January 2006 (UTC).

Righty-o. I figure it's been enough time. NicM, your suggestion is very reasonable, so it's what I've done. InkSplotch 14:25, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

I removed the "different countries" bit, as someone wrote in to Neil Gaiman asking why that conflicted with the text in the book, and Gaiman responded on his blog that the wikipedia entry was in error. Koyaanis Qatsi 04:26, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I assume that by "post" he does in fact mean snail mailing them back and forth rather than, I don't know, going to the other's house or office or some other convenient location and dropping the disc into a box. I know that Gaiman's mentioned before that he's a night owl and Pratchett likes to get up early, so that what ended up happening was that one of them was writing while the other was asleep, and they'd each wake up with more novel to read. ^_^ Koyaanis Qatsi 04:29, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

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