The Annotated Pratchett File, v7a

The Books of Magic II, by Neil Gaiman and Scott Hampton, 1990.

Tim is told of an occult battle taking place offstage in Calcutta: “You wouldn’t believe it. The cult of Kali, three Ninja death squads, the Brotherhood of the Cold Flame, a thousand elephants...”

Dirty Work, by Dan McGirt, 1993, Pan Books, ISBN 0 330 32391 1, p. 215.

The relevant quotation is:

“I peeled off my outer clothing and removed the Cosmosuit. Dreadguards took it away from me and placed it, along with Gardion and Overwhelm, in a wooden chest. They also took the Rae medallion and the Ring of Raxx. ‘The chest is made of insipid wormwood, the most highly inanimate and unmagical substance known to the world, which specifically does not run around on hundreds of tiny legs nor eat people,’ Dread said of the box. ‘But it does prevent you from summoning your magic sword by thought.’

‘Thought of everything haven’t you?”

Readers on afp are, by the way, unanimously unenthusiastic about this book, so don’t assume that just because it mentions the Luggage it’s got to be a good read.