Hah! You and Crowley obviously know who requires supervision! Thank you very much! I was actually worried about it seeming out of character but I think Crowley likes to keep tabs on people as much as possible, just in case...
I really wanted to do something loving and evocative of how we remember important things. Particularly how memory acts as this weird other limb of the self that can't be controlled and is for the most part just ignored until it's not operating correctly. I'm so glad that the groundedness worked! For me, the magic of Crowley and Aziraphale is at least 70% the fact that they exist in something approaching the real world and that comes with all the same little vagaries that the rest of us navigate. That mix of prosaicness of life and the poetic nature of them being supernatural is what I LOVE about this book and these characters.
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I really wanted to do something loving and evocative of how we remember important things. Particularly how memory acts as this weird other limb of the self that can't be controlled and is for the most part just ignored until it's not operating correctly. I'm so glad that the groundedness worked! For me, the magic of Crowley and Aziraphale is at least 70% the fact that they exist in something approaching the real world and that comes with all the same little vagaries that the rest of us navigate. That mix of prosaicness of life and the poetic nature of them being supernatural is what I LOVE about this book and these characters.