Satanic Portrayals
Feb. 24th, 2009 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readingredheadSo, instead of eating my dinner or doing any one of the numerous homework assignments that are bound to crush me to a pulp between now and Thursday, I have been accosted by a short story. I am actually rather pleased by this -- I have been waiting for this particular story to make itself work for me ever since reading the Book of Job (yeah, the one from the bible) last semester for my biblical poetry class. And as a result, I'm writing a short story about Satan. Or rather, "the Satan" (long story that will get outlined elsewhere). It's set in the modern world, and thus far opens with the following line:
"The Satan had known coming into this job that it had a high turnover rate, but leaning back in his leather swivel chair and observing the view out the window of his 66th story corner office, he really didn’t understand why."
(For the record, this is currently the ONLY sentence. But the ideas are still in the process of accosting, so I figure I'll give it some time.)
What I require from you, dear readers, is further inspiration. I know I have my own personal favorite portrayals of Satan or the Devil in literature, from Satan in Paradise Lost to the Lone Power in Diane Duane's Young Wizards books, but I want to play around with figurations of the character of the devil and what his work actually entails. What does your favorite interpretation of the devil look or act like? What are some interesting names for the Devil, or for evil figures in general? (I'm looking for everything from Pluto to Prince of Darkness.) What can I do to make this awesome?
...yeah. Well. Now I should maybe go eat that dinner and work on that paper and problem sets and chapters worth of reading that are all due within the next two days. That seems like an intelligent idea.
"The Satan had known coming into this job that it had a high turnover rate, but leaning back in his leather swivel chair and observing the view out the window of his 66th story corner office, he really didn’t understand why."
(For the record, this is currently the ONLY sentence. But the ideas are still in the process of accosting, so I figure I'll give it some time.)
What I require from you, dear readers, is further inspiration. I know I have my own personal favorite portrayals of Satan or the Devil in literature, from Satan in Paradise Lost to the Lone Power in Diane Duane's Young Wizards books, but I want to play around with figurations of the character of the devil and what his work actually entails. What does your favorite interpretation of the devil look or act like? What are some interesting names for the Devil, or for evil figures in general? (I'm looking for everything from Pluto to Prince of Darkness.) What can I do to make this awesome?
...yeah. Well. Now I should maybe go eat that dinner and work on that paper and problem sets and chapters worth of reading that are all due within the next two days. That seems like an intelligent idea.