No, the heaven thing is that they like the idea in the abstract - I'm not sure how they'd react to finding out that they're not the ones that get the horseradish to eat.
Hmm. Well, we don't generally get eaten as an everyday sort of thing - we definitely have huge taboos against people eating other people. And we get freaked out when other animals eat us - e.g. bears, wolves, sharks and so on. But bears and so on (and actually Duane addresses this in the context of humans featuring on alien species' cooking shows!) eat us, and they don't angst terribly about eating us.
The direct quote from Diane Duane, in A Wizard Alone, is:
"Is there really a cooking channel, uh, 'about' us?"
"There's lots of them."
"But how is something like that permitted?!"
"You go where you shouldn't go, you find out stuff you shouldn't find out. Like how you taste in a sweet-and-sour sauce with galingale. The universe is full of little surprises."
The "us" being humans, the questioner is the wizard's father and the answer is the wizard. For context, Duane's stuff is YA urban fantasy, where the wizardry is 'magic' with a scientific basis, or as much of a one as 'magic' can have. Such as: it takes a lot of energy to power a spell that takes you to the moon, because you have to clear the Earth's gravity well.
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Date: 2008-08-05 01:37 pm (UTC)Hmm. Well, we don't generally get eaten as an everyday sort of thing - we definitely have huge taboos against people eating other people. And we get freaked out when other animals eat us - e.g. bears, wolves, sharks and so on. But bears and so on (and actually Duane addresses this in the context of humans featuring on alien species' cooking shows!) eat us, and they don't angst terribly about eating us.
The direct quote from Diane Duane, in A Wizard Alone, is:
"Is there really a cooking channel, uh, 'about' us?"
"There's lots of them."
"But how is something like that permitted?!"
"You go where you shouldn't go, you find out stuff you shouldn't find out. Like how you taste in a sweet-and-sour sauce with galingale. The universe is full of little surprises."
The "us" being humans, the questioner is the wizard's father and the answer is the wizard. For context, Duane's stuff is YA urban fantasy, where the wizardry is 'magic' with a scientific basis, or as much of a one as 'magic' can have. Such as: it takes a lot of energy to power a spell that takes you to the moon, because you have to clear the Earth's gravity well.