i love the idea of crowley being the animating spirit of the bookshop. thinking abt aziraphale saying ''but my bookshop...'' and staring out the window after crowley.
i dunno if aziraphale's decision at the end is as naive as it seems. thinking abt this bit from the book:
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occasionally, serious men in dark suits would come calling and suggest, very politely, that perhaps he'd like to sell the shop itself so that it could be turned into the kind of retail outlet more suited to the area. Sometimes they'd offer cash, in large rolls of grubby fifty-pound notes. Or, sometimes, while they were talking, other men in dark glasses would wander around the shop shaking their heads and saying how inflammable paper was, and what a fire trap he had here.
And Aziraphale would nod and smile and say that he'd think about it. And then they'd go away. And they'd never come back.
Just because you're an angel doesn't mean you have to be a fool.
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think of the metatron as the mobster ''politely'' suggesting aziraphale give up his shop. and aziraphale's psycho smile at the end is bc he knows what he's going to do to ensure he never comes back.
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Date: 26 Aug 2023 05:36 pm (UTC)i dunno if aziraphale's decision at the end is as naive as it seems. thinking abt this bit from the book:
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occasionally, serious men in dark suits would come calling and suggest, very politely, that perhaps he'd like to sell the shop itself so that it could be turned into the kind of retail outlet more suited to the area. Sometimes they'd offer cash, in large rolls of grubby fifty-pound notes. Or, sometimes, while they were talking, other men in dark glasses would wander around the shop shaking their heads and saying how inflammable paper was, and what a fire trap he had here.
And Aziraphale would nod and smile and say that he'd think about it. And then they'd go away. And they'd never come back.
Just because you're an angel doesn't mean you have to be a fool.
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think of the metatron as the mobster ''politely'' suggesting aziraphale give up his shop. and aziraphale's psycho smile at the end is bc he knows what he's going to do to ensure he never comes back.