I'm reading a book called Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, and it's about the apocalypse, basically. I think I'm at the point where it's starting to get serious, though I wouldn't know, since I've never read the book before. So anyways, this is the part where the angel and demon get drunk, hence the journal subject. Check it out.
Crowley- You know what eternity is? You know what eternity is? I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the univers, and once every thousand years, there's this little bird--
Aziraphale- What little bird?
Crowley- This little bird I'm talking about. And every thousand years--
Aziraphale- The same bird every thousand years?
Crowley- ...Yeah.
Aziraphale- Bloody ancient bird then.
Crowley- Okay. And every thousand years this bird flies--
Aziraphale- --Limps--
Crowley- --Flies all the way to this mountain and sharpens its beak--
Aziraphale- Hold on. You can't do that. Between here and the end of the universe, there's loads of...-waves hand- Loads of buggerall, dear boy.
Crowley- But it gets there anyway.
Aziraphale- How?
Crowley- It doesn't matter!
Aziraphale- It could use a spaceship.
Crowley- ...Yeah...If you like. Anyway, this bird--
Aziraphale- Only it is the end of the universe we're talking about. So it'd have to be one of those space ships where your descendants are the ones who get out at the other end. You have to tell your descendants, you say, When you get to the Mountain, you've got to...What have they got to do?
Crowley- Sharpen its beak on the mountain. And then it flies back--
Aziraphale- --In the space ship--
Crowley- --And after a thousand years, it does it all again.
-Moment of drunken silence-
Aziraphale- Seems a lot of effort just to sharpen a beak.
Crowley- Listen. The point is that when the bird has worn the mountain down to nothing, right then...then you still won't have finished watching the Sound of Music.
Aziraphale- -Freezes-
Crowley- And you'll enjoy it. You really will.
Aziraphale- My dear boy--
Crowley- You won't have a choice.
Aziraphale- Listen--
Crowley- Heaven has no taste.
Aziraphale- Now--
Crowley- And not one single sushi restaurant.
 xX_Kuroko_Xx · Thu Jul 28, 2005 @ 08:45pm · 1 Comments |
