Marietta Cosmopilite

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{{Character Data
|title= Mrs. Marietta Cosmopilite
|photo= Mrs cosmopolite1.JPG|Mrs Cosmopilite, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]]
|name= Marietta Cosmopilite
|age=
|race= [[Humans|Human]]

|occupation= Dress-maker and seamstress (in the [[Sandra Battye]] sense)

|appearance=

|residence= 3 [[Quirm Street]], [[Ankh-Morpork]]. She apparently also runs a dress-shop/haberdashery located not far away from Blert Wheedown's guitar workshop ({{SM}}).

|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status= presumably there once was a Mr. Cosmopilite

|books= {{MP}}
|cameos= {{SG}}, {{TOT}}
}}
Mrs. Marietta Cosmopilite is a dress-maker living at 3 Quirm Street, Ankh-Morpork. She also runs a dress shop and haberdashery not far away from [[Blert Wheedown]]'s guitar workshop: during the [[Music With Rocks In]] craze, Wheedown sent his apprentice [[Gibbsson]] round to her shop to negotiate for sequins, Ankhstones and suitably flashy material for guitar straps. During the [[Holy Wood]] moving pictures fever, Mrs. Cosmopilite worked as the wardrobe mistress for the actors. Mrs. Cosmopilite also makes dresses for the new dwarf females. Other than dress-making, Mrs. Cosmopilite rents out some rooms in her house (Very Reasonable).

Since seekers of wisdom always want to seek it somewhere far away, some young monks come down from the [[Ramtops]] and the [[Hub]] and try to learn ''[[The Way of Mrs. Cosmopilite]]''. This collection of trite, but sometimes pithy homilies was compiled by [[Lu-Tze]], a.k.a. the Sweeper, of the [[History Monks]]; he carries it with him in a small notebook. It has never been published, otherwise, but rumor has spread of the teacher of the great and wise Lu-Tze. The seekers of enlightenment on Quirm Street never know quite what they're looking for, and Mrs. Cosmopilite has no idea why they're bothering her.

She complains that she is bothered at nights by [[Dwarfs|dwarf]] voyeurs peeping in through the curtains while she undresses. Dwarfs have a different aesthetic as to what constitutes attractiveness (as evidenced by [[Giamo Casanunda|Casanunda]]'s passion for [[Nanny Ogg]]), and it is hinted that, however unlikely this behaviour is for dwarfs, this is the only thing she has got right out of a catalogue of interesting delusional beliefs. Although it is possible that she is on one of [[Nobby Nobbs]]' patrol beats, and has made a common error re: Nobby's species...

==Annotation==

If the young Lu-Tze went to her to learn ''[[The Way of Mrs. Cosmopilite]]'' and is over 800 years old at the time of the events described in {{TOT}}, how can she still be alive to be gallivanting in the time of {{MP}}? Is it that Lu-Tze persuaded [[Qu]] to send him forwards in time and then bring him back once he'd learnt? (Linear time is not something the History Monks seem to worry about.)

[[category:Discworld characters|Cosmopilite,Marietta]]
[[Category:Human characters|Cosmopilite,Marietta]]
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