NP: All Agog

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 21:12:27 CDT 2009


Henry wrote:
>
> "Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac
> in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible's
> satanic agents of the Apocalypse."
>

first glance, I misread that as "satiric agents of the Apocalypse"
- I kind of like the misreading better, not just because how seriously
can you take entities with names like Gog and Magog, but
also maybe elements in OBA's fiction lead us to believe he too
might be a satiric agent of the Apocalypse (wasn't somebody posting
about doing a thesis on something like that recently?)


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up! " - Hapworth Glass



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