Беленькие, черненькие, в полоску...
Дочитала Good Omens. :) Немного картинок с просторов девиантарта. Все кликабельно.
(c) kbakonyi
Два брата-акробата... Упс, это из другой оперы! Ангел и демон. :)
(с) rhianimated
Кстати, эпизод с корпоративным пейнтболом - мой любимый. :)
Финал (c) ALRadeck
И цитаты на память (кстати, оценила прелесть синхронизации киндл-читалки между ноутом и планшетом - закладки делала на планшете, цитаты по закладкам копирую на ноуте). Цитирую не по порядку.
Children’s parties were obviously places where any angel with an ounce of common sense should fear to tread.
***
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.
***
She was in the middle of a city* at the time.
*Nominally a city. It was the size of an English county town, or, translated into American terms, a shopping mall.
***
It changed his life. At least, it changed his life for that day.
***
“But we can’t be the Spanish Inquisition,” said Wensleydale. “We’re not Spanish.”
“I bet you don’t have to be Spanish to be the Spanish Inquisition,” said Adam. “I bet it’s like Scottish eggs or American hamburgers. It just has to look Spanish. We’ve just got to make it look Spanish. Then everyone would know it’s the Spanish Inquisition.”
***
“I don’t see what’s so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin’ upset ’cos they act like people,” said Adam severely. “Anyway, if you stopped tellin’ people it’s all sorted out after they’re dead, they might try sorting it all out while they’re alive. If I was in charge, I’d try makin’ people live a lot longer, like ole Methuselah. It’d be a lot more interestin’ and they might start thinkin’ about the sort of things they’re doing to all the enviroment and ecology, because they’ll still be around in a hundred years’ time.”
***
So computers are tools of the Devil? thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of somebody, and all he knew for certain was that it definitely wasn’t him.
***
Besides, it used the word “community” too often; Newt had always suspected that people who regularly used the word “community” were using it in a very specific sense that excluded him and everyone he knew.
***
For years, and without much conviction, he’d enthused to his friends about its economy and efficiency in the desperate hope that one of them might buy one, because misery loves company.
***
You see, it’s not enough to know what the future is. You have to know what it means.
***
“Various prophecies say the Antichrist has to arise first,” said Anathema. “Agnes says he. I can’t spot him-”
“Or her,” said Newt.
“What?”
“Could be a her,” said Newt. “This is the twentieth century, after all. Equal opportunities.”
***
You don’t have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.
***
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.
***
Twenty-seven people were got out of bed in quick succession and they got another fifty-three out of bed, because if there is one thing a man wants to know when he’s woken up in a panic at 4: 00 A.M., it’s that he’s not alone.
***
Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. Over the years Crowley had found it increasingly difficult to find anything demonic to do which showed up against the natural background of generalized nastiness. There had been times, over the past millennium, when he’d felt like sending a message back Below saying, Look, we may as well give up right now, we might as well shut down Dis and Pandemonium and everywhere and move up here, there’s nothing we can do to them that they don’t do themselves and they do things we’ve never even thought of, often involving electrodes. They’ve got what we lack. They’ve got imagination. And electricity, of course. One of them had written it, hadn’t he…“ Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”
***
“But you’re part of it,” said Aziraphale. “You tempt people. You’re good at it.” Crowley thumped his glass on the table. “That’s different. They don’t have to say yes. That’s the ineffable bit, right? Your side made it up. You’ve got to keep testing people. But not to destruction.”
***
He stared into nothing for a while, and then reached for the satchel and its bottle of Chivas Regal. There are at least two ways to turn someone into a zombie. He was going to take the easiest.
***
“Don’t tell me from genetics. What’ve they got to do with it?” said Crowley. “Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he’ll grow up to be a demon just because his dad became one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.”
***
Broadly, it was that there had once been real cowboys and gangsters, and that was great. And there would always be pretend cowboys and gangsters, and that was also great. But real pretend cowboys and gangsters, that were alive and not alive and could be put back in their box when you were tired of them- this did not seem great at all. The whole point about gangsters and cowboys and aliens and pirates.
***
“The forces of darkness must be beaten. You seem to be under a misapprehension. The point is not to avoid the war, it is to win it. We have been waiting a long time, Aziraphale.”
(c) kbakonyi
Два брата-акробата... Упс, это из другой оперы! Ангел и демон. :)
(с) rhianimated
Кстати, эпизод с корпоративным пейнтболом - мой любимый. :)
Финал (c) ALRadeck
И цитаты на память (кстати, оценила прелесть синхронизации киндл-читалки между ноутом и планшетом - закладки делала на планшете, цитаты по закладкам копирую на ноуте). Цитирую не по порядку.
Children’s parties were obviously places where any angel with an ounce of common sense should fear to tread.
***
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.
***
She was in the middle of a city* at the time.
*Nominally a city. It was the size of an English county town, or, translated into American terms, a shopping mall.
***
It changed his life. At least, it changed his life for that day.
***
“But we can’t be the Spanish Inquisition,” said Wensleydale. “We’re not Spanish.”
“I bet you don’t have to be Spanish to be the Spanish Inquisition,” said Adam. “I bet it’s like Scottish eggs or American hamburgers. It just has to look Spanish. We’ve just got to make it look Spanish. Then everyone would know it’s the Spanish Inquisition.”
***
“I don’t see what’s so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin’ upset ’cos they act like people,” said Adam severely. “Anyway, if you stopped tellin’ people it’s all sorted out after they’re dead, they might try sorting it all out while they’re alive. If I was in charge, I’d try makin’ people live a lot longer, like ole Methuselah. It’d be a lot more interestin’ and they might start thinkin’ about the sort of things they’re doing to all the enviroment and ecology, because they’ll still be around in a hundred years’ time.”
***
So computers are tools of the Devil? thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of somebody, and all he knew for certain was that it definitely wasn’t him.
***
Besides, it used the word “community” too often; Newt had always suspected that people who regularly used the word “community” were using it in a very specific sense that excluded him and everyone he knew.
***
For years, and without much conviction, he’d enthused to his friends about its economy and efficiency in the desperate hope that one of them might buy one, because misery loves company.
***
You see, it’s not enough to know what the future is. You have to know what it means.
***
“Various prophecies say the Antichrist has to arise first,” said Anathema. “Agnes says he. I can’t spot him-”
“Or her,” said Newt.
“What?”
“Could be a her,” said Newt. “This is the twentieth century, after all. Equal opportunities.”
***
You don’t have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.
***
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.
***
Twenty-seven people were got out of bed in quick succession and they got another fifty-three out of bed, because if there is one thing a man wants to know when he’s woken up in a panic at 4: 00 A.M., it’s that he’s not alone.
***
Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. Over the years Crowley had found it increasingly difficult to find anything demonic to do which showed up against the natural background of generalized nastiness. There had been times, over the past millennium, when he’d felt like sending a message back Below saying, Look, we may as well give up right now, we might as well shut down Dis and Pandemonium and everywhere and move up here, there’s nothing we can do to them that they don’t do themselves and they do things we’ve never even thought of, often involving electrodes. They’ve got what we lack. They’ve got imagination. And electricity, of course. One of them had written it, hadn’t he…“ Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”
***
“But you’re part of it,” said Aziraphale. “You tempt people. You’re good at it.” Crowley thumped his glass on the table. “That’s different. They don’t have to say yes. That’s the ineffable bit, right? Your side made it up. You’ve got to keep testing people. But not to destruction.”
***
He stared into nothing for a while, and then reached for the satchel and its bottle of Chivas Regal. There are at least two ways to turn someone into a zombie. He was going to take the easiest.
***
“Don’t tell me from genetics. What’ve they got to do with it?” said Crowley. “Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he’ll grow up to be a demon just because his dad became one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.”
***
Broadly, it was that there had once been real cowboys and gangsters, and that was great. And there would always be pretend cowboys and gangsters, and that was also great. But real pretend cowboys and gangsters, that were alive and not alive and could be put back in their box when you were tired of them- this did not seem great at all. The whole point about gangsters and cowboys and aliens and pirates.
***
“The forces of darkness must be beaten. You seem to be under a misapprehension. The point is not to avoid the war, it is to win it. We have been waiting a long time, Aziraphale.”