“ou grew accustomed to the only other face that had been around more or less consistently for six millennia.” They have come to an Arrangement, in the way that “many isolated agents, working in conditions a long way from their superiors, reach with their opposite number when they realize that they have more in common with their immediate opponents then their remote allies.” It consists of not interfering in some of the other’s activities, ensuring that neither side lost but neither side won. No sale is ever made and customers are persuaded quite quickly to leave.Īziraphale and Crowley have grown quite fond of Earth and its inhabitants and have become, in a way, friends.
He prides himself on his impeccable clothes and owns a rare books shop which is really a place for him to store the books. Aziraphale is the angel who stood at the entrance to the Garden of Eden with a flaming sword, which he gives to Adam and Eve when they are expelled: “They looked so cold, poor things…and what with the vicious animals out there and the storm coming up…”. Any cassette left in his car for long enough turns into Best of Queen. Crowley, who starts out as the serpent in the Garden of Eden but has taken on human form, has “dark hair and good cheekbones”, dresses in black and drives a Bentley with a cassette player that plays only Best of Queen. This delightfully subversive look at the Apocalypse and everything that went before is one of my favourite books.Īziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, have been living on Earth since the beginning.
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