why yes, I AM a geek, why do you ask?

[kaydeefalls]

Wandering the Village after dinner tonight, I passed an old bookstore that was having a used book sale outside. I perused.

Then I bought myself A Dictionary of Angels (including the fallen angels).

It's a dictionary of the angels. Like, ALL of them. Almost 400 pages' worth of angels. Some have long passages of description (Gabriel gets practically two full columns), others are barely noted (well, who the heck has ever heard of Kered?). It's, like -- I can finally go back and look up the angels from His Dark Materials. Understand arcane references. Make my OWN arcane references.

This is so cool.

Hey, did you know Metatron has 76 names? (My parents didn't even know who Metatron was. I wept.)

...and in other news, since it's past midnight, Happy Birthday, versaphile!

Comments

[versaphile.livejournal.com]

Yay, thanks!

[ldmoonflower.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's so fnxoopy!

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Isn't it, though? Eeeeangels....

[airgiodslv.livejournal.com]

Metatron = Voice of God?

And that's about the extent of my knowledge of Judeo-Christian mythology knowledge.

*blushes*

[airgiodslv.livejournal.com]

Not only that, but I am so exhausted that I typed the word knowledge twice.

My apologies. Goodnight.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

See, at least you knew that much. My parents just stared blankly at me. Which is sad, because my father was raised fairly religious and my mother thinks the Bible is a good read.

[gabbyhope.livejournal.com]

Alan Rickman from 'dogma'! ...Right?

Dude, that book sounds awesome.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Voice of God, yes. Much prettier to picture him as Alan Rickman, because coolness...

I lurve this book. It's so random and probably useless.

[kohaku1977.livejournal.com]

Wow, how utterly cool. I'´ve been looking for a good dictionary for ages. Is it really good? As in really really?

Can you give me the full title?

< /geek>

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

It's really, really good. *grins* The full title is as written, A Dictionary of Angels, including the fallen angels. It's at home and I'm at work, but when I get home I'll give you the author's name.

[kohaku1977.livejournal.com]

*envies*

Thanks, you're a darling. I have two bad dictionaries at home (both were presents), and I'm needing a good one desperately.

*envies some more*

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I said I'd give this to you about ten days ago and never did. *facepalms* I sorry! Things have been a little nutso on my end lately. Yes.

Author (editor?) of dictionary of angels: Gustav Davidson.

*slinks away*