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** Yes, Adam could make more whales and save them from extinction. But the question is for how long? If humans are just going to continually hunt them then they'd be back to extinction levels and he'd have to create more. The fact that there's not enough whales is not the problem, it's that we don't know how to wisely live with out environment. It wouldn't solve the problem, it'd just shift the goalposts.
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** Does that mean that the [[{{pun}} red angel of Satan]] fell victim to RougeAnglesOfSatin? (For the record, in [[Series/GoodOmens2019 the series]], it sounds like War says the correct "Zingiber."
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** Does that mean that the [[{{pun}} red angel of Satan]] fell victim to RougeAnglesOfSatin? (For the record, in [[Series/GoodOmens2019 the series]], it sounds like War says the correct "Zingiber."")
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** What makes you think they can normally be assassinated? They're only really dispatched because of ''Adam's'' power, otherwise they're immortal, invincible anthropomorphic personifications -- and as Death points out, as long as humanity exists and creates war, famine and pollution ''they'll be back anyway''. Also, the book makes it clear that Adam is the reason for Armageddon, ''not'' the Horsemen. The Horsemen are more or less a symptom.
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* Despite the fact that the Horsemen are the ones destined to actually destroy everything and the Antichrist just the one destined to found an empire afterwards, both Aziraphale and Crowley's and Anathema Device's plans revolve solely about preventing the Antichrist from doing his job as if that would stop the apocalypse. Anathema has Agnes Nutters' prophecies, Aziraphale a first edition Literature/BookOfRevelation and Aziraphale and Crowley are a literal angel and demon respectively, so all three have no business not knowing this. Yet all of them act like the Antichrist's failure to fulfill his function would not make the apocalypse occur and everybody treats the four horsemen like [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Giant Space Fleas from Nowhere]] when they appear and do attempt to start it. Why did Aziraphale and Crowley waste [=ELEVEN=] years playing babysitter to the (fake) Antichrist instead of coming up with a plan to assassinate the Four Horsemen? Since the demons were the ones that tasked the mailman to give the horsemen their items, Crowley could have found out their whereabouts.
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** Agreeing with the above entry. If Adam had banished the Horsepeople but the communications centre had remained functional, humanity would have faced a mundane, realistic nuclear holocaust: horrific and probably civilisation-ending, but not the prelude to a mystical war between the armies of Heaven and Hell and the destruction of the universe. If, on the other hand, Newt and Anathema had stopped the missile launch but the Horsepeople had not been banished, they would presumably just have ridden on to the next spot where they could do maximum harm. Alternatively, think of it as how Death of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' can only reap someone if there's a material cause of death, but he still needs to reap them or they won't die. Only in this case, it's the entire Earth rather than one person.
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* Agnes Nutter concealed fifty pounds of gunpowder and thirty pounds of roofing nails underneath her petticoats. How did it fit? Was she wearing a crinoline (or proto-crinoline) that didn't deform under the weight? Or does the pounds refer to how much it cost?
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** Or, as shown in other direct prophecies, like when she arranged for the delivery of the book, she directly addressed the descendants who were thinking of a different name and told them why that name wouldn't work. Having a book or note that seemingly reads your mind would definitely be convincing. That and I'm sure, after a while, her descendants, by choosing people who were willing to go along with everything, effectively bred for obedience to the prophecies.
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*** I don't see what God has to do with it - humans create life all the time, Adam already created aliens, and Adam doesn't care what God wants. Besides, if creating more whales would do anything, it would stop their food source from expanding beyond what the ocean can support.
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** Perhaps there were occasions where people decided that they were not going to follow Agnes' list of names but there were miscarriages or something, and it was only when the predicted name was chosen that the child lived. It would seem like it was a prediction or curse, but really it would just be Agnes seeing the sad inevitable outcome. Or the descendent didn't disclose the list to their spouse and asked them to pick names at random, and the name still got chosen. It would only take a couple of experiments for people to just get locked into the list and accept it as a valid roadmap for the future.
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* So its mentioned (at least, in the Radio play its mentioned) that Agnes predicted the names of all of her descendants and wrote them down in the book? Didn't the descendants question that its not really predicting the future if they see their own name and see that they will have a son named James, so then just go on to name their son James?
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** [[https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/715606704306720768?lang=en Word of god]] is that it was a typo for "Zingiber".
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** By the time Anathema and Newt encounter Aziraphale and Crowley outside the base, there's been so much supernatural happenings going on, the auras of one angel and one demon really don't matter anymore. She's standing there witnessing not only the Four Horsepersons, but the Metatron, Beezlebub, a kid who's so powerful he can seriously warp reality, and the near-arrival of Satan himself. What's a couple of more people with strange auras?
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** By the time Anathema and Newt encounter Aziraphale and Crowley outside the base, there's been so much supernatural happenings going on, the auras of one angel and one demon really don't matter anymore. She's standing there witnessing not only the Four Horsepersons, but the Metatron, Beezlebub, a kid who's so powerful he can seriously warp reality, and the near-arrival of Satan himself. What's a couple of more people with strange auras?
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** On the subject of nitrous oxide, the term for this chemical compound in this troper's native language is "laughing gas." That's what makes the monkeys gay (=happy).
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** It does sound sort of like "Zingiber", the scientific name for ginger plant, so there might be a ginger = red-headed {{pun}}, but other than that, no idea.
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** Because in real life, just based on my experience, when you’re looking for a tape to play, the only one you can ever find is Best of Queen or Queen’s Greatest Hits. And even when you find one that says it’s something else, put it in the cassette player and sure enough it only has Queen songs on it.
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** Actually, “Damn” and “Hell” aren’t swearwords in England. They’re just words that aren’t suitable for polite company, in the same way “idiot” or “stupid” aren’t swearwords but you wouldn’t use them in a polite conversation.
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* Does the name "Zuigiber" hold any significance? It's not a real name, as far as I can tell, but it also doesn't seem to mean "red" or "warmaker" or anything. The closest I can find to any kind of meaning is that "zuig" is Dutch for suction. This does not appear to be relevent.
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** {{Antagonist}} is probably a better word for Death in this book than villain. He's pretty much just doing his job, but his job in this case involves wiping out all life on Earth, so...
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** Wensleydale is the name of a food. The whole problem of Famine is a ''lack'' of food.
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** Consider also British cultural attitudes towards swearing. In Britain, mild curse-words like "bugger", "bloody" and "hell" tend to be regarded more as inoffensive punctuation than actual swear-words. When Aziraphale swears at the incident with the blue circle, he's talking about a 'proper' swearword (an F-bomb or something similar).
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** Consider also British cultural attitudes towards swearing. In Britain, mild curse-words like "bugger", "bloody" and "hell" tend to be regarded more as punctuation than actual swear-words. When Aziraphale swears at the incident with the blue circle, he's talking about a 'proper' swearword (an F-bomb or something similar).
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** The boys have also presumably been taught from a fairly young age that hitting girls is a particularly not-very-nice thing to do, which is no doubt part of their "timeless code of honour" (i.e. boys don't hit girls). Since Pepper is less likely to have had the inverse ethical principle of "girls don't hit boys" drilled into her in the same way (since for various reasons girls are generally less likely / encouraged to engage in physical / violent conflict than boys are), she has a slight advantage over them in that they're likely to hold their punches towards her, but she's under no obligation to do the same. In essence, she benefits from a DoubleStandard.
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** Also, good grief, we're being a bit humourlessly literal there, aren't we? It's a semi-comedic analogy, not a court transcript.
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** A revolver IS a pistol. Does the book actually say "automatic" at any point?
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** In a word: yes. It was wordplay - gay meaning both 'happy' and 'homosexual'. Consider [[Creator/TerryPratchett who]] was [[NeilGaiman writing]] that. (Also: I appear to have some sort of editing superpower. You're very welcome.)
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** In a word: yes. It was wordplay - gay meaning both 'happy' and 'homosexual'. Consider [[Creator/TerryPratchett who]] was [[NeilGaiman [[Creator/NeilGaiman writing]] that. (Also: I appear to have some sort of editing superpower. You're very welcome.)
