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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
No, I don't think Pratchett did, and I don't think that you did either. It's just that the particular quote reminded me (in painful detail) of a "joke" that someone posted here at MR a few days ago .... that was about tying a cat/kitten in a bag with a brick and drowning it.
I didn't think that joke was funny then .... and I still don't. And .... that quote just reminded me that what some people find hysterically funny (such as drowning a cat), I do not.
As I recall, when I encountered that scene in Mort, it made me cry. It's one of the reasons I love the character of Death. The same sorts of things that piss him off piss me off too.
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That was how I felt when I read the scene too, and why I posted it. I missed someone posing a "joke" about drowning a cat, or I wouldn't have posted this.
The little details of this scene matter to me. Death stroking the kittens as they're dying, and then (after the end of what I quoted) tucking their souls into his robe, rather than just letting them wander off as he generally does with humans.
Not knowing what pshrynk was alluding to, this was the best way I could think of to try to express a kinship of feeling with his frustration. "YOU DON'T SEE THE BEST SIDE OF PEOPLE IN THIS JOB." I felt like what Death meant was that he knew there
was a better side of people than what he was looking at just then. And in a way, by saying that, he was reminding himself of that better side, though not present in the scene.
As I suspect you know, I don't find the idea of drowning kittens at all funny.