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Article: Where the falling angel meets the rising ape: Terry Pratchett's "Discworld".(Critical essay)
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- Hollins Critic
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- February 1, 2006
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A critical essay on Terry Pratchett is necessarily a daunting task, not only because of his prolific output, but because his work has already been so well examined in Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature, edited and written by an admirable passel of British scholars of the fantastic. But in a world containing the Luggage, a box of sapient pearwood with feet (human), inside of which something disposes of its owner's enemies into another dimension and washes and folds his undershorts, there is probably room for us all. Twice.
When J. K. Rowling said somewhat condescendingly in a 2005 Time magazine interview that she was not a huge fan of fantasy and was trying to ...