Gue - if you haven't checked out Discworld, I'd recommend you do. It's heavily comedy, but it has the same sort of thing going on with the personification of Death, Time, Fate, Luck, War, etc. :)

Isnt that where the fish fly off the edge of the world?

Only because the world is a big disc, being moved around the cosmos on the back of a big turtle.

Precisely :)