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	Narrativia must surely have taken her place in [[Dunmanifestin]], as her recommendation comes from an even higher authority still?		Narrativia must surely have taken her place in [[Dunmanifestin]], as her recommendation comes from an even higher authority still?

	Narrativia is mentioned in [[Book:The Science of Discworld IV: Judgment Day\|The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day]], when [[Lord Vetinari]] mentions lighting a candle in her ~~honor~~ before starting a lengthy memoir.		Narrativia is mentioned in [[Book:The Science of Discworld IV: Judgment Day\|The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day]], when [[Lord Vetinari]] mentions lighting a candle in her honour before starting a lengthy memoir.


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	Narrativia is a [[Gods\|goddess]] ~~who, if there is any justice, must surely exist in the [[Discworld (world)\|Discworld]]~~. ~~For she~~ is the patron deity of [[Terry Pratchett\|Sir Terry Pratchett]] himself, who is having a statue made in Her honour:		Narrativia is a [[Gods\|goddess]] of writing. She is the patron deity of [[Terry Pratchett\|Sir Terry Pratchett]] himself, who is having a statue made in Her honour:

	<blockquote>Terry Pratchett is having a statue made. It's a statue of a goddess, and he thinks she ought probably to be smoking a cigarette, and to be showing one breast. "There should be an urn, too. If there's an urn it's not porn – that's a Discworld cliché," he says, a bubble of laughter in his voice.</blockquote>		<blockquote>Terry Pratchett is having a statue made. It's a statue of a goddess, and he thinks she ought probably to be smoking a cigarette, and to be showing one breast. "There should be an urn, too. If there's an urn it's not porn – that's a Discworld cliché," he says, a bubble of laughter in his voice.</blockquote>
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	Narrativia must surely have taken her place in [[Dunmanifestin]], as her recommendation comes from an even higher authority still?		Narrativia must surely have taken her place in [[Dunmanifestin]], as her recommendation comes from an even higher authority still?

			Narrativia is mentioned in [[Book:The Science of Discworld IV: Judgment Day\|The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day]], when [[Lord Vetinari]] mentions lighting a candle in her honor before starting a lengthy memoir.

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Narrativia is a [[Gods|goddess]] who, if there is any justice, must surely exist in the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]. For she is the patron deity of [[Terry Pratchett|Sir Terry Pratchett]] himself, who is having a statue made in Her honour:

<blockquote>Terry Pratchett is having a statue made. It's a statue of a goddess, and he thinks she ought probably to be smoking a cigarette, and to be showing one breast. "There should be an urn, too. If there's an urn it's not porn – that's a Discworld cliché," he says, a bubble of laughter in his voice.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The goddess is one of Pratchett's own invention: Narrativia, the deity of narrative who smiles on writers (and perhaps especially sunnily on her creator). Discworld, created by Pratchett 28 years ago, is the fantasy world held up by four elephants balanced on the back of a giant turtle. It's a concept which started out as an affectionate lampoon of the sword-and-sorcery fantasy genre, but it has, over the years, become an increasingly sophisticated swipe at contemporary society, pointing out the ridiculousness of everything from [[Moving Pictures|Hollywood]] to the [[Going Postal|postal service]], [[The Truth|newspapers]], [[Making Money|banks]] and [[Unseen Academicals|football]].</blockquote>

<blockquote>And Narrativia has been beside him all the way. "If you've been a good boy and worked at what you're doing, then the goddess Narrativia will smile on you," he says, recounting his delight at a particular piece of her work, when he was writing {{TOT}} more than a decade ago. He decided to call one of his characters [[Ronnie Soak]]. Soak is the fifth horseman of the apocalypse – the one who left before they got famous. His name was picked at random, so Pratchett was astonished when he noticed what it sounded like backwards. Suddenly, he knew of what this particular horseman would be a harbinger. "I thought chaos – yes! Chaos, the oldest," he says. "Stuff just turns up like that."</blockquote>

<blockquote>''(Exracted from the interview with Sir Terry Pratchett, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/oct/14/terry-pratchett-life-writing?newsfeed=true A Life In Writing], The Guardian, Sat 15th Oct 2011)''</blockquote>

Narrativia must surely have taken her place in [[Dunmanifestin]], as her recommendation comes from an even higher authority still?

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