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I finally sent off the work project that has been dogging me for, well, for months. And it sucks, it's nowhere near the quality I would like it to be, nowhere near what I would like to think of as my usual level of quality, but today was the absolute last deadline, and so, hey, at least it's out of my life for the time being now.

Leaving me free to spam you all with some stuff.

Thing One
I read somewhere that the SPN writers were drawing on Milton's representation of Satan in Paradise Lost for their Lucifer, and so when I read these lines I thought, "Oh. Yeah."

Satan first comes to Eve in a dream, and Eve tells Adam about it the morning:

Close at mine ear one called me forth to walk
With gentle voice. I thought it thine....
(Book 5, ll.35-6)

Thing Two
A movie rec.
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So I'm about to dive into my shiny new copy of Corambis, the last of the four books of Sarah Monette's Doctrine of the Labyrinths series, and I'm wondering, not for the first time, whether there is some overlap between readers of these novels, and SPN fans.  Because you'd think if you like one, you'd like the other.

( And here's why: )