Star Wormword
English translation: Star WormwoOd
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| English language (monolingual) [PRO] Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Kirill Semenov Ukraine Local time: 04:57 | ||||||
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peer agreement (net): +10| star wormword Star WormwoOd Explanation: An allusion on the Biblical Star Wormwood which would shine in the sky on the Doomsday: Revelation 8:10-11 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 13 mins (2005-04-11 08:43:47 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- No even an allusion -- it\'s a part of sermon given by a fanatical preacher (in fact, she is possessed by a demon): ` Rocking and sobbing, the congregation became a sea; the woman seemed to point at all of them, none of them. “It’s him that will come as the Antichrist, to lead men into the flaming bowels of perdition, to the bloody end of wickedness, as Star Wormwood hangs blazing in the sky, as gall gnaws at the vitals of the children, as women’s wombs give forth monstrosities, as the works of men’s hands turn to blood – “ (`Gunslinger\', Chapter 12) |
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