Hunting for recipe books in the bookshop, I bought <br />Good Omens, what FUN, the Damien-kid playing <br />Spanish Inquisition, dunking the witch, a little girl <br />tied to a chair, in the pond until the Inquisitors so <br />hot, they dunked themselves <br /> <br />Never thought of playing this when I was small, just <br />danced around in my mother’s wide dress and sang <br />songs, my brothers’ gang sat on the rafters, tried <br />sleeping in a hole in the ground though it got too <br />cold and they crept back inside <br /> <br />A theme running like gold thread through the book <br />all tapes turn into Queen’s music if left in the car for <br />too long, Freddy Mercury replacing the classics to <br />the demon’s chagrin, brings on fits of laughter; <br />Sister Loquacious switching the babies <br /> <br />So Damien’s hell-hound changed into a sweet little <br />doggie; both demon and angel lamenting imminent <br />Armageddon as heaven is too boring - its highlight <br />the Sound of Music* and hell’s excitements too <br />painful - both trying to save the world <br /> <br />Since human beings are the source of real grace and <br />real heart-stopping evil*, both demons and angels are <br />needed – the secret is, they only exist inside the <br />human mind, once humanity is destroyed, they <br />also lose their existence <br /> <br /> <br />Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, <br />Corgi Books,2006 <br />* Quoted from p.93 <br /> <br />Damien –The Omen – An ominous film <br /> <br />The Sound of Music – A film about the life of Maria <br />von Trapp, changed her story too much, read the book, <br />though the film is good fun, don’t watch it over and over <br />too much syrup makes people go funny in the end<br /><br />Margaret Alice Second<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/damien-kid/
