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In uffish thought
Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
Feb 12th 2014 at 2:00:58 AM
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Pulled this. Can someone familiar with the work please sort out whether it is an example and add it back without the natter? Thanks.
- In Death: The Time of Your Life, Death's lingering fondness for the protagonists leads her to agree to bring their baby back but, she warns, she'll be back, and someone will be leaving with her. Subverted in that she specifically states "There's no balance, there's just me." She's honoring a deal she made, not balancing the books.
- Another possible interpretation is that Hazel was the one who suggested the arrangement because she just assumed that this was how it worked. It isn't, but Death wanted to be nice and so gave Hazel exactly what she asked for. (Which does beg the question of whether she'd just given the kid back, no strings attached, if Hazel had been bold enough to ask for that instead).
- Did she ever say when she would be back? She could come back 80 years later.
- Death wouldn't say when. That is the whole point of The Time Of Your Life; you get a lifetime.
Ormus: Ormus has heard the tale of Ku Y'leh; that venerable sage had forgotten that there is no life after death—there is only life.- Death did not say when she would be back, but Hazel summed up the deal thusly:
Hazel: Kind of a promise-not-to-take-Alvie-for-a-little-while-and-you-can-take-me-or-someone-soon-but-just-give-us-a-little-more-time kind of deal.
- Another possible interpretation is that Hazel was the one who suggested the arrangement because she just assumed that this was how it worked. It isn't, but Death wanted to be nice and so gave Hazel exactly what she asked for. (Which does beg the question of whether she'd just given the kid back, no strings attached, if Hazel had been bold enough to ask for that instead).
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Redirect and Article have been separated
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