Perfect Insanity

I am too old to just now be having this revelation. How did it take me this long to realize this? I’ve reread this book several times?!? I don’t have my physical copy nearby so we’re working off the kindle. We’re also sleep deprived so we’re rambling.

Page 24 on my kindle states:

Mrs. Deirdre Young is giving birth in Delivery Room Three. She is having a golden-haired male baby we will call Baby A.

The wife of the American Cultural Attaché, Mrs. Harriet Dowling, is giving birth in Delivery Room Four. She is having a golden-haired male baby we will call Baby B.

Sister Mary Loquacious— is being handed a golden-haired male baby we will call the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness.

Page 36 on my kindle states:

IT WOULD BE NICE to think that the Satanist Nuns had the surplus baby—Baby B—discreetly adopted.

That he grew to be a normal, happy, laughing child, active and exuberant; and after that, grew further to become a normal, fairly contented adult. And perhaps that’s what happened. Let your mind dwell on his junior school prize for spelling; his unremarkable although quite pleasant time at university; his job in the payroll department of the Tadfield and Norton Building Society; his lovely wife. Possibly you would like to imagine some children, and a hobby—restoring vintage motorcycles, perhaps,

or breeding tropical fish.

You don’t want to know what could have happened to Baby B. We like your version better, anyway.

He probably wins prizes for his tropical fish.

Excerpt’s from Page 364 on my kindle state:

IT WAS SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

High over England a 747 droned westwards.

In the first-class cabin a boy called Warlock put down his comic and stared out of the window.

The plane was at that point passing right above the Lower Tadfield bedroom of Greasy Johnson,

who was aimlessly leafing through a photography magazine that he’d bought merely

because it had a rather good picture of a tropical fish on the cover.

And Warlock flew on to America. He deserved something

(after all, you never forget the first friends you ever had, even if you were all a few hours old at the time)

and the power that was controlling the fate of all mankind at that precise time was thinking…

So if I’m understanding this right, Warlock was baby A.

Greasy Johnson, was Baby B.

And Adam was the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness.

Mrs. Johnson adopted a baby, aka Greasy Johnson, aka Baby B, secretly born to Mrs. Doweling.

Mrs. Dowling, was given a baby she believed she had given birth to, aka Warlock, aka Baby A, secretly born to Mrs. Young.

Mrs. Young, believing she had given birth to Adam, was secretly given the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness.