A lot about this did not make sense: why Thor would have so much trouble locating his own hammer; how he could possibly have kept its loss a secret from the giants for so long; and the idea that Otis the goat would have a happy space.
-- Magnus (One: Could You Please Stop Killing My Goat)

Importance: This quote hints at the incompetence of the gods. This is something that becomes much more important as the novel progresses. The author wants the reader to know early on that the gods are incapable of many things despite their divine status. Whether its laziness or inability is not entirely clear. Still, this forces the heroes to go on adventurers to do what the gods should already be doing. It also highlights the strangeness of Magnus’s world. He lives in a place where gods, giants, and talking goats are real and he interacts with this world as easily as the reader would...