“How did you find a copy of this?” Aziraphale cradled a slightly roughed up manuscript titled Book of Mormon.
OH MY GOD the pages that went AWOL when Martin Harris misplaced them; secret author, if you know even a little about the curious early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and this battered manuscript turning up has something to do with the lost pages, I'm pretty much instantly installing it as headcanon that one of these two, or both of them, had something to do with the theft. I in no way identify as Mormon anymore, but I still remember everything I learned growing up. Those pages were lost ca. 1828, I think, so I'm trying to do the math on your use of "consider it an advance copy"...Wilde was born in 1854, so there would have been, I think, two print editions of the Book of Mormon by the time he was born, some of which would have made their way to England via Missionaries because it was the first country in which the LDS proselytized. Advance copy in the sense that it's a pilfered manuscript, I guess, absolutely ;) I'm sure Aziraphale will get his hands on one of the print versions, which have existed a while already, for comparison.
“I like him fine! I went to all his plays! I even bought a copy of his damned novella.”
I love Crowley's tetchiness here. Textbook Crowley sarcasm. Love it <3
no subject
OH MY GOD the pages that went AWOL when Martin Harris misplaced them; secret author, if you know even a little about the curious early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and this battered manuscript turning up has something to do with the lost pages, I'm pretty much instantly installing it as headcanon that one of these two, or both of them, had something to do with the theft. I in no way identify as Mormon anymore, but I still remember everything I learned growing up. Those pages were lost ca. 1828, I think, so I'm trying to do the math on your use of "consider it an advance copy"...Wilde was born in 1854, so there would have been, I think, two print editions of the Book of Mormon by the time he was born, some of which would have made their way to England via Missionaries because it was the first country in which the LDS proselytized. Advance copy in the sense that it's a pilfered manuscript, I guess, absolutely ;) I'm sure Aziraphale will get his hands on one of the print versions, which have existed a while already, for comparison.
“I like him fine! I went to all his plays! I even bought a copy of his damned novella.”
I love Crowley's tetchiness here. Textbook Crowley sarcasm. Love it <3