“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.” Crowley became Rampa (as 'Crawly' became 'Crowley', 'Rampant' became 'Rampa'), after the infamous author of In the Czech version of the book, the names of Agnes, Anathema, the Satanist nuns, Pepper and some minor characters were translated too. “It's like you said the other day," said Adam. “I mean, d'you know what eternity is? “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. “Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches. It was something you did on Saturday nights. He was not unusual in this. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. Initially, I did most of Adam and the Them and Neil did most of the Four Horsemen, and everything else kind of got done by whoever – by the end, large sections were being done by a composite creature called Terryandneil, whoever was actually hitting the keys. In Good Omens Season 1 Episode 2, Aziraphale and Crowley run into a descendant of Agnes Nutter while they all search for the Anti-Christ to stop the end of the world. They’ve got what we lack. Good Omens. “She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.” “And then there were cats, thought Dog.


“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.” “Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.” One of them had written it, hadn’t he…”Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.” Due to the mishandling of several infants in the hospital, the real Anti-Christ is Adam Young, a charismatic and slightly otherworldly eleven-year-old living in Lower Tadfield, As the end of the world nears, Adam blissfully and naively uses his powers, changing the world to fit things he reads in a conspiracy theory magazine, such as raising the lost continent of Atlantis and causing Little Green Men to land on earth and deliver a message of goodwill and peace. ― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. Jordan Hare, Nicholas Craddock, Bella Thomas, Samson Hyland and Anthony Abrakmanov Reading November 2017. I’ve read some of Neil Gaiman’s work such as The Ocean at the End of the Lane and Coraline, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed them, so upon hearing that Good Omens was being made into a TV show, I had to read it first. tags: contracts, humor. -- The Spanish Inquisition (Tadfield version) in action (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens) Anathema didn't only believe in ley-lines, but in seals, whales, bicycles, rainforests, whole grain in loves, recycled paper, white South Africans out of South Africa, and Americans out of practically everywhere down to and including Long Island. The book contains many extra footnotes as an explanation to some of the phrases that were translated more literally than usual and to add new jokes (for example the part where Anathema meets Adam and tells him she is an occultist, noting: "You were thinking 'Nothin' wrong with my eyes, they don't need examining,' weren't you?" They seemed to have a talent for it.
He was looking forward to a further cat experiment, which he planned would consist of jumping around and yapping excitedly at it. “If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. After realizing that by embracing absolute power, he will not be able to continue to grow up as a child in Lower Tadfield, Adam decides to stop the apocalypse. “You're Hell's Angels, then? She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.”