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The Luggage
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| The Luggage | |
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| Name | The Luggage |
| Age | |
| Race | |
| Occupation | Carrying stuff around |
| Looks | A large brass bound wooden chest with hundreds of little pink legs. Is sometimes shown to have teeth and a long mahogany red tongue. |
| Residence | Wherever his current owner lives |
| Death | |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | Owned by Rincewind. |
| Children | |
| Marital Status | |
| Books | All books in the Rincewind Series. |
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The Luggage is a trunk with legs. It is made of Sapient pearwood, and is immensely faithful. Its first owner was a tourist called Twoflower, who at the end of The Light Fantastic, gave the Luggage over to Rincewind. It appears to hold many dimensions, and has often swallowed people that have tried to hurt its owner. It always has a pair of fresh underwear ready smelling slightly of lavender. It has also been used as a mode of transportation in The Light Fantastic, and will even cross dimensions to be with its owner.
The Luggage is often seen as a malevolent entity and has made a definite impression on the faculty of Unseen University. Twoflower originally bought the Luggage in "one of those shops", but, while in the Agatean Empire the Luggage met others of its kind and has now mated and reproduced in Interesting Times
The Luggage even once swallowed the Octavo (at the end of The Light Fantastic), but we later learn (in Eric) that it "sulked for three days" and later spat it out.
Annotations
Pratchett has stated on several occasions that the Luggage was created from the time he watched a woman's suitcase wobbling across the tiles of an airport. He has also stated however that the airport story and several others were fabricated for the benefit of interviewers and quite frankly he can't remember the precise origin of the Luggage. He had earlier used a similar idea when designing role-playing games for friends, a walking trunk which could carry all the players possesions and would follow any instructions given to it but only the instructions given to it (rather like a golem), which enevitably led it to absent mindedly walk off the edge of a cliff as soon as the quest party got distracted. (The Pratchett Portfolio)
There is also the curious case of the Dr Who episodes that this contributor recalls watching as a child, sometime around 1968 or 69, during the Patrick Troughton era as Doctor. These were extraordinarily scary, as they dealt with normally passive and user-friendly household objects taking on a life of their own that was vindictive and distinctly unfriendly to people. Shop window mannikins turrned to the bad, animated and started killing people; items of furniture such as chairs and sofas decided to devour anyone who sat in them; and there is a distinct memory of a bloody-minded suitcase that swallowed the person who tried to open it, leaving no visible trace of where the person it had just devoured had disappeared to. Could a younger Terry Pratchett also have watched this show with the same level of altered and horrified consciousness?
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