 Over the break, I started reading this book called Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, which I'm almost done with, and wanted to share something from it that I thought was kind of funny. The book is about Armageddon and an angel and a demon who don't really want it to happen. There's a lot more to the book than just that, but that's pretty much it in short. The demon, Crowley, doesn't do his part in raising the Antichrist that Hell expects him to do and towards the end, Hell finds out about this and sends a couple demons after him to bring him back down for punishment. He is able to kill one of them with holy water and traps the other one in his phone, releasable only if someone calls, which isn't too much of a problem since he's a demon and doesn't really know any humans.
That's when a telemarketer calls and the demon, Hastur, is released through her phone into the telemarketing office and proceeds to devour all of the telemarketers inside. One of the book's themes is that evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction, meaning that no matter how much evil Hell can bring, it always has some good to it:
"Right now, across the country, people who would otherwise have been made just that little bit more tense and angry by being summoned from a nice bath, or having their names mispronounced at them, were instead feeling quite untroubled and at peace with the world. As a result of Hastur's action a wave of low-grade goodness started to spread exponentially through the population, and millions of people who ultimately would have suffered minor bruises of the soul did not in fact do so. So that was all right."
Listening To: Blur - Caravan
And when it comes you'll feel the weight of it,
The weight of it And the day will come when you'll get away from it
Away from it |
