Angels
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 8 10:05:25 CDT 2002
What does Moore say about Angels in his book?
Charles Hohmann?
Eddins says Angel, Benny's drunken angel with the light, is the avenging
angel of the street, but he must have a different book than I have cause
while he's real careful and explicates passages and even specific phrase
and words, he makes some real silly errors.
That one Dave, a reply to The Grim Phoenix on History in V., well, he
makes some silly errors too, getting the nationalities of the characters
all screwed around.
And I did the same the other day here, saying Benny was from Brooklyn,
he's from Manhattan.
And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in
those days were born unto 2 them beautiful and comely daughters. And the
angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said
to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of
men 3 and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said
unto them: 'I fear ye will not 4 indeed agree to do this deed, and I
alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all
answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves
by mutual imprecations 5 not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.'
Then sware they all together and bound themselves 6 by mutual
imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in
the
days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount
Hermon, because they had sworn 7 and bound themselves by mutual
imprecations upon it. And these are the names of their leaders:
Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel,
Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, 8 Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el,
Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of
tens.
1 And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and
each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to
defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms 2 and
enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with
plants. And they 3 became pregnant, and they bare great
giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed 4 all the
acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the
giants turned against 5 them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin
against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and 6 fish, and to devour one
another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth
laid accusation against the lawless ones.
Hey Jude
I saw you nude
don't try to fake it
I saw you naked
Boy that RC is an arrogant bastard.
Funny that Mason wants to kill him and Dixon wants to kill a land
developer.
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