The continuation..
" So defend yourself, you back-stabbing, cheating, money-hungry animal", Mephistopheles bellowed.
" I rest my case", replied Mr. Onuyama calmly.
"What?!! What are you talking about?!! You havn't even said anything!"
"Well, I just did. I said 'I rest my case'"
"But.. but that doesn't make any sense! Defend yourself against the charges!" yelled the furious devil.
Mr Onuyama walked out of the underworld with his arms crossed defiantly. He looked confident enough. He had a right to be. His meteoric rise to fame and fortune were unprecedented. Never before was there a more acclaimed assessment book writer in history. Not that much of history had assessment book writers. But this writer had re-written the storyline of history. And possibly even the future. He had sold the devil the second worst book ever written besides "The Hassle-Free Divorce Proceeding".
Mephistopheles stared blankly at his array of newly printed "Finding love in Algebra: a loving guidebook to elementary mathematics". All 777 million of them.
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He felt like a defeated protagonist in one of Jeffery Archer’s loosely written fiction. Or is he the antagonist? Oh, what does it matter now? He’d make an easy character for any genre- the stupid kind too. But it doesn’t seem fair at all, to always be given the losing role. What irony it is, when being the voice of the most eloquent doomsayer, brainwave of the conniver; the slightest discontentment of the soul and precipitator of Self’s downfall, when his ultimate goal in life is to set the trap right, it is for others to foil it and gain the glory. His most faithful subordinate, the ghost of regret, comes back to haunt him after doing his rounds.
“What made you think you could trick him, when you have failed in the past?”
“Oh, will you just shut up.”
“You are my maker. Perhaps you now regret creating me.”
Maybe he should just remain passive. Which seems to be the way his copies of “Finding love in Algebra: a loving guidebook to elementary mathematics” is going to be. But desperate times call for desperate measures. Mephistopheles got out his “New King James” version from behind the stacks of useless books. It’s no myth that the evil one knows the Word.
There. So it’s written.
The next day when Mr Onuyama went to the bank, he got news that his cheque had bounced. For in the same way that God owns the cattle of a thousand hills, the devil is quite poor indeed. And “He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning.” -1 John 3: 8
" I rest my case", replied Mr. Onuyama calmly.
"What?!! What are you talking about?!! You havn't even said anything!"
"Well, I just did. I said 'I rest my case'"
"But.. but that doesn't make any sense! Defend yourself against the charges!" yelled the furious devil.
Mr Onuyama walked out of the underworld with his arms crossed defiantly. He looked confident enough. He had a right to be. His meteoric rise to fame and fortune were unprecedented. Never before was there a more acclaimed assessment book writer in history. Not that much of history had assessment book writers. But this writer had re-written the storyline of history. And possibly even the future. He had sold the devil the second worst book ever written besides "The Hassle-Free Divorce Proceeding".
Mephistopheles stared blankly at his array of newly printed "Finding love in Algebra: a loving guidebook to elementary mathematics". All 777 million of them.
----
He felt like a defeated protagonist in one of Jeffery Archer’s loosely written fiction. Or is he the antagonist? Oh, what does it matter now? He’d make an easy character for any genre- the stupid kind too. But it doesn’t seem fair at all, to always be given the losing role. What irony it is, when being the voice of the most eloquent doomsayer, brainwave of the conniver; the slightest discontentment of the soul and precipitator of Self’s downfall, when his ultimate goal in life is to set the trap right, it is for others to foil it and gain the glory. His most faithful subordinate, the ghost of regret, comes back to haunt him after doing his rounds.
“What made you think you could trick him, when you have failed in the past?”
“Oh, will you just shut up.”
“You are my maker. Perhaps you now regret creating me.”
Maybe he should just remain passive. Which seems to be the way his copies of “Finding love in Algebra: a loving guidebook to elementary mathematics” is going to be. But desperate times call for desperate measures. Mephistopheles got out his “New King James” version from behind the stacks of useless books. It’s no myth that the evil one knows the Word.
There. So it’s written.
The next day when Mr Onuyama went to the bank, he got news that his cheque had bounced. For in the same way that God owns the cattle of a thousand hills, the devil is quite poor indeed. And “He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning.” -1 John 3: 8
posted by efarmer at 3:25:00 PM
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I LIKE THIS SO SO MUCH!! if you guys publish, i'll be the first to purchase... =)
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