[MV] The Super Wizard From Space #32: To Hell And Hell And Hell And Hell And Hell And Back Again, Part 8

[Scott Eiler]

On 6/14/2012 1:45 PM, Andrew Perron wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:52:12 +0000 (UTC), Wil Alambre wrote:
>
>> It was heat and scratching that dragged the Devil from unconsciousness.
>> He couldn't see and he couldn't breathe and he couldn't feel. There was
>> a burning heaviness everywhere, covering him, drowning and burying.
>> Overtop, a long haunting howling punctuated by the booming rumble of an
>> irregular bass drum.
>
> This is wonderfully flavoriffic description here (as usual for this
> series).

... What he said.  And you've really set up a good plot situation too.

>> But it would have to do for now. If this is what it took. He could deal
>> with the consequences later. "Fine. I'm not going to whinge about this.
>> You cooperate from here on in, you do things my way without any more
>> faffing about, I'll take you to my Hell. Personally. You can run rampant
>> over the whole place for all I care. Deal?"
>
> Does the Language just realize that it made a literal deal with the Devil?

... heh.  Here I was, wondering how the Devil could live without Hell or 
the damned, little thinking of certain fictional precedent.  Of course, 
having the damned all over the place might be messy...

-- 
(signed) Scott Eiler  8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ ---------

Let's take a look, if you will, at the Second Amendment of the
Constitution, which protects every American's right to shoot another
American.  This cherished constitutional right to shoot people and make
them dead is currently recognized in all fifty states, most recently
Florida.

- The Borowitz Report
(http://www.borowitzreport.com/2012/03/29/an-argument-against-healthcare/),
March 2012.