[Way, Way, Way OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

[Daniel Burrows <dnb114@psu.edu>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:20:32AM -0800, Nunya <31210.nospam@comcast.net> was heard to say:
> Sounds a lot like a plot in very early issues of 1980s of Hellblazer, a 
> comic which by the way is being made into a movie with Keanu Reeves (it's 
> being filmed as we speak).  http://www.insanerantings.com/hell/movie/
> [Heaven is oppressive, right-wingers are malevolent, world saved by the 
> paganists/hell.  Subtheme: civil war in hell.  Good stuff.]

  "His Dark Materials" is a more recent take on this idea.  Same basic
idea, though.

  Another slightly "off-center" take on Christian mythology is Terry
Pratchett's "Good Omens", in which BOTH heaven and hell are 'evil',
albiet in slightly different ways.

  Daniel

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