Mort 2: What Should Be Will Be

About this episode

The episode discusses themes of perspective and predestination in Terry Pratchett's Mort.

This week, we return to Terry Pratchett's Mort to discuss perspective, the dualities of life on the Disc, and what is really going on with Death. Do we believe that everything is predestined? Who gets to tell the story? Does Ysabelle sparkle in the sunlight? To see the video version of this week's show, click here ; to see the slides, click here ! Footnotes: Mort Terry Pratchett Audiobooks (including the footnotes!) Follow Stars And Swords on YouTube , Bluesky and Instagram . To join me for the live broadcast, to support the podcast, to join the conversation on Discord and to get access to monthly bonus episodes, please visit Patreon.com/NextWord and pledge your support! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

People in this episode

Host: Next Word

Topics covered

• perspective
• dualities of life
• Death
• predestination
• storytelling

Keywords

• Terry Pratchett
• Mort
• Death
• predestination
• storytelling

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Books & works: Mort

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