One of my all-time favorite passages is from Sir Terry Pratchett's book Hogfather. The book tells the story of how the Hogfather — the Santa Claus figure of the Discworld — is destroyed and then saved. The story's theme, I feel, centers around the issue of the human conception of the universe and how we make sense of it. The passage I'm talking about is a dialogue that happens around the end of the book between Death and Susan — the protagonist, who is also Death's granddaughter — dis...
