Why do you love the luggage? Have a favorite moment?
Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(8/27/02 11:12 am) Reply
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Okay, well, there are WAY too many favorite moments. But- I particularily got a kick out of the Luggage in Sourcery.
"What is it?" hissed Conina.
"It's just the Luggage," said Rincewind wearily.
"Does it belong to you?"
"Not really. Sort of."
"Is it dangerous?"
"There's two schools of thought about that," said Rincewind. "There's some people who say it's dangerous, and others who say it's very dangerous. What do you think?"
Conina stared at the lid. It looked very much like a mouth.
"I think I'd vote for 'terminally dangerous,' " she said.
"It likes potato chips," volunteered Rincewind, and then added, "Well, that's a bit strong. It eats potato chips.
"What about people?"
"Oh, and people. About fifteen so far, I think."
"Were they good or bad?"
"Just dead, I think."
Re: Who Loves the Luggage?
Ohhhh. Love it! The Luggage is so great. I love it in Eric (need to get that book!).
Persephassa Out of mind, be back... sometime
(8/28/02 5:19 am) Reply
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Luggage, Luggage, Luggage, Luggage, Luggage, Luggage, Luggage, Luggage, Luggage, Luggage, Luggage, Luggage!
Him and the Librarian ) I just love the idea of having a homicidal suitcase!
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Re: Who Loves the Luggage?
I remember in Year6 (about age 10 for non-UKians) being asked to write which literary character would you most like to have with you on a desert island? The luggage was my choice.
Gosh...aged 10? that's 12 years ago... I'd forgotten I'd been reading DW for that long.
The Luggage
Now I come to think about it I find the luggage vaguely scary. I'm suprised no-one's tried to confiscate it, actually no i'm not, you'd have to be completely Bursar to even contemplate confiscating it. It'd be interesting if I had a backpack to set on my headteacher though...
My year six teacher leant me Hogfather which I promptly *lost* so that I could re-read it. At that age I'd never read anything remotely like DW and I was enthralled.
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Do think anyone could confiscate it even if they wanted to? hahaha. That would be a rather funny momment. Like the backpack idea too- teachers, evil students, psycho vice-principle lady with her crazy dresscode rules. Like your thinking.
My sister got me hooked on the books, she's probably more obsessed than I am Should she ever actually get here
Confiscating the luggage...
Well, they might be able to immobilise it if they dropped a *really* big meteor on it.
Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(8/29/02 7:58 pm) Reply
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But the Luggage is adorable in a homicidal and rather scary way, no doubt.
But- do you really think the Luggage would stand still and ket a meteor be dropped on it? Anything that can hop dimensions and time might be a bit hard to kill. If it can be killed? How do you immobilize a trunk?
And, just to add one thing... No fair that you get to be British! Okay, well I am simply jealous. We Americans get good books later and we don't get cool accents to boot. *sigh* I want to move to England. (or, actually, SPF- to Egypt!)
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Adorable...homicidal...rather scary. HAH! Now I know why you actually like Sasha (little brat bit me today, then an hour later was all cudley and purring).
I doubt it can be killed. Can it even be classified as living? Can it be trusted? Can you see where it keeps it brain? Sorry, drifting into other books (I tend to do that, so be warned).
Agree on the British thing! Grim I got it! We can do a total Amelia tour, begin in England tour Europe a bit and finish in Egypt with a crazed mummy! Are we scaring people? Sorry (Elizabeth Peters- good, great rather, books).
Scarlet Phoenix Patrician
Persephassa Out of mind, be back... sometime
(8/30/02 4:03 am) Reply
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Well - classified as living... I went through this one on another site
WARNING Pedantry ahoy!
The 7 signs of life are (in no particular order...) movement, reaction, respiration, excretion, nutrition, growth, reprodcution - Luggage does reproduce in Interesting Times, he moves, reacts, eats - not so sure about breathing - does he need to breath? Don't think he grows, and does he excrete - would that be what happens when he spits things out?
So Luggage could be an animate, unalive object. It is made of Sapient Pearwood - which is a magically alive wood. Do the normal rules apply around magic?
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There is a theory which states that if anyone ever discovers what the universe is for and why we are here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened
I don't think the normal rules apply in Disworld period.
Whether the Luggage is technically alive or not, he (?) still rules. This will be bugging me for a while now. Grrrrr. It sort of has feelings, or is that just a blind following of it's master? Will we ever really know? My, I'm feeling philosophical.
Scarlet Phoenix Patrician
Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(8/30/02 12:15 pm) Reply
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SPF, you didnh't read Interesting Times. Of course it has feelings! It also has a family, lol!
Personally, I think that the Luggage is quite alive. It's magical also, and therefore any attempts to explain it rationally must end in confusion. But I like him (it?)...I'll say him.
Mrs Grim
Notepadfreak Out of mind, be back... sometime
(8/30/02 12:36 pm) Reply
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Ok...no meteors...maybe it could get dry rot? Only joking, I'm not trying to kill it.
On a world where there are living Golem's and trolls and where animals exposed to magical radiation become people of a sort I don't see why the luggage couldn't be really alive. People alive that is, it has a personality, granted a rather psychotic one but its still there.
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Try an kill off the Luggage an you are no longer welcome!
*grins* Bit obsessive, but the Luggage is so great. It's the main reason I like the Rincewind books! They couldn't kill it off ever! If they did I be writing some angry letters! (Grim, remember "Dear Warner Bros", very cute)
Scarlet Phoenix
Persephassa Out of mind, be back... sometime
(8/31/02 7:05 am) Reply
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Well, I think Luggage is male - possibly because the luggage that it has kids with seems to be female "Its lid was inset with decorative wood and, it seemed to Rincewind, its feet were rather more dainty than the hony-nailed, calloused ones of the Luggage. Beside the toenails had been painted." But it could be similar to certain birds - the female is less gaudy than the male...
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There is a theory which states that if anyone ever discovers what the universe is for and why we are here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened
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I dunno, it may be easier just to refer to it as it. If anything though I'd have to go with male- not really sure why (never read Interesting Times) it somes seems rather masculine.
Scarlet Phoenix
Persephassa Out of mind, be back... sometime
(8/31/02 7:11 am) Reply
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Possibly the whole 'homicidal maniac' thing seems to sit better as a male? <grin> Although it could be female - and filled with boundless love for Rincewind. Or just enjoy being viscious and nasty.
I'm rambling again, aren't I...
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There is a theory which states that if anyone ever discovers what the universe is for and why we are here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened
Notepadfreak Out of mind, be back... sometime
(8/31/02 4:35 pm) Reply
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Random violence...male trait. I am in no way biased by being a girl
Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(8/31/02 5:18 pm) Reply
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LOL, I agree and I am, of course, also TOTALLY unbiased. Everyone knows that this is a male trait.
Do you think well get away with this or will any guys figure it out eventually?!
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Erm, my cat's a girl and she's a homicidal manic. Just trying to be unbiased. I think she may have mental issues though so that would explain it . But generaly random violence would be considered a male trait. There are of course exceptions to any rule.
) I just love the idea of having a homicidal suitcase!
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