Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following a star The same one them three men followed from the East. I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace he wrote on 1983's Infidels, regaining his focus...
...Protestant flock he once ministered to in Blue Hill, Me. The loss of his wife, whom he did not love, cost him a creed that he did not trust: "In whisky veritas. When Abby died, I was left alone with the Juvenal. Fearing I had been delivered into Satan's hands, I denied my faith rather than face God's wrath." He confesses to himself: "Within a year, I learned I could live without...
...Condors are far more interesting, perhaps because narrative quickens in the presence of evil and strife. John Milton faced such a problem when he portrayed Satan in Paradise Lost, and Le Guin, working on a different level, explicitly acknowledges the dilemma. One of the chorus of voices in the book belongs to Pandora, who seems to represent both the character from Greek mythology and contemporary Western consciousness. Through the magic of time travel, Pandora converses with a Kesh woman librarian. These enlightened people routinely throw away books and documents. As the dialogue continues, Pandora grows frustrated. "I never did like...
That, of course, may be mere sentimentalism. Whatever works. Loneliness is the Great Satan. Jane Austen, who knew everything about courtship, would have understood the personals columns perfectly. Her novel Emma, in fact, begins, "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, happy, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition." The line might go right into the New York Review of Books...
...also clashes with a barroom full of vicious bikers called Satan's Helpers, all of whom he tells to be quiet while he tries to make a phone call. They do not, however, kill him in 18 different ways, as they want to do at first. Pee Wee's ingenuity not only allows him to save his own neck, but to befriend the roadies as well...