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Death and What Comes Next (Discworld, #10.5; Death, #1.5)
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What happens when a philosopher (or a physicist) dies?
Well, they die, but maybe they also get to meet DEATH for a second there, as the last grains of sand in their hourglass are falling.
And people generally don't get along nicely with changes. Well, being dead is a BIG change. So what do they do? They try to chat with DEATH to make HIM admit that in some other quantum realm of reality - they are still alive. That seems to happen often, because apparently DEATH knows how to answer such stupid questions for us,
This is a short 5 pages read for Discworld fans. Thank you my secret santa for gifting me this (among others) - I really wanted to read it!!
Well, they die, but maybe they also get to meet DEATH for a second there, as the last grains of sand in their hourglass are falling.
And people generally don't get along nicely with changes. Well, being dead is a BIG change. So what do they do? They try to chat with DEATH to make HIM admit that in some other quantum realm of reality - they are still alive. That seems to happen often, because apparently DEATH knows how to answer such stupid questions for us,
the lucky species of ape that are trying to understand the complexities of creation via language that evolved in order to tell one another where the ripe fruit was...
This is a short 5 pages read for Discworld fans. Thank you my secret santa for gifting me this (among others) - I really wanted to read it!!
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