I bought Aziraphale's Bible so you don't have to.
Am I insane? Yes. Was it worth it? Maybe.
In most* of both season 1 and season 2 of GO, there's a very specific Bible on a bookstand next to Aziraphale's desk. It's a vintage illustrated plate book by Harold Copping, known as the Harold Copping Bible, published by the religious tract society in London in 1910. It features some of the most well known Old Testament stories, summarized and annotated by the Bishop of Durham at the time, and illustrated by Copping, who was freshly returned from a sojourn in the middle east. Ironically, It was meant as a lay-person's version of a comic book, short, exciting by use of exotic illustrations, and easy to read.
But my (expensive) gain is now your gain! As I've collected here every visible page in both seasons for your reading and viewing pleasure.
Season 1: All episodes
Adam & Eve
Genesis iii (1:3) / HCB page 10
Season 2: Episode 1
Joseph known to his brethren
Genesis xlv (1:45) / HCB Page 28
S2E1 14:21, S2E1 17:41, S2E1 39:45
Season 2: Episode 2
Jacob's vow
Genesis xxviii (1:28) / HCB Page 22
S2E2 5:49
Season 2: Episode 2
Joseph known to his brethren
Genesis xlv (1:45) / HCB Page 28
S2E2 13:38 (see S2E1 above)
Season 2: Episode 2
The Brazen Serpent
Numbers xxi (4:21) / HCB page 36
S2E2 16:12, 43:40
Season 2: Episode 2*
Bible on the desk, Magazine on the stand
Annuel L'art Pour Tous, Cover (1861-1880 most likely)
S2E2 22:10
The French L'art pour tous industrial design periodical will have to be a story for another post. For now, just enjoy this 1880 edition copperplate of cherubs discovering a microscope...
Season 2: Episode 2
Imaginary page from HCB, Job
KJV Job (18:1) / HCB N/A
S2E2 22:29, S2E2 40:05
Obviously, the plate illustrations and text look different here than in the real bible, because they were created for the show. But there are a few more particularities here. For one, this layout with the thin grid around the text, as well as the paragraph symbol next to the first title, indicate that this would have been a printer's proof copy, not a finished book. It shows you the layout grid and can be annotated for changes. Second, there seems to be a war going on between fonts. Where the "chapter" of Job begins, we get a font and a style similar to the original bible, which gets rudely interrupted by a dropped capital (from the real book) and a Gothic-style font/verse numbers like in the original King James version of the printed Bible.
Season 2: Episode 3
The Brazen Serpent
NUMBERS xxi (4:21) / HCB page 36
S2E3 1:18 (see episode 2)
Season 2: Episode 5
By the Rivers of Babylon
Pslam cxxxvii (19:137) / HCB page 52
S2E5 21:20
Season 2: Episode 6
Bible missing, L'art pour Tous on the stand
Annuel L'art Pour Tous, Cover (1861-1880 most likely)
S2E6 10:21, 17:21, 18:15, 34:28 (see episode 2)
Season 2: Episode 6
Closed HCB, L'art pour Tous on the stand behind
HCB page 0
S2E6 37:58, 44:20, 48:08
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Things that have made me cry (or almost cry) in the last few hours due to exhaustion:
The end of The Underworld from Epic the musical
The end of Hadestown
Socialising with strangers
A sad TikTok about Aziraphale being lonely as the Supreme Archangel set to When Will My Life Begin from Disney’s Tangled
The board of animal actors used for the Harry Potter films, including the ones that never made it to screen because that is not fair
How pretty David Tennant looks (it was pictures of Crowley)
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2 April 2023 - Crowley
Soon, he would have to go back to work. Crowley had no idea how he was going to start seeing people again. Over the past few months, he had become a shadow of himself. He had gone out the bare minimum, eaten the bare minimum, and drunk far more than the bare minimum.
He had gone from sorrow to anger and then back to sorrow.
Because Crowley had loved with all of himself, and it had not been enough.
Because those like him were never enough.
(Damn you, Crowley. Falling in love like that, at forty years old. You idiot)
12 March 2022 - Crowley
It was probably going to rain, but it wasn't that important. He knew where he had to go and the path better than anyone else.
The man on the path had hair that looked as soft as a dandelion, which sprouted just about everywhere in the mountains at that time of year. He had greeted him, as he always did on the trail, and the stranger seemed a little lost, as if he did not know exactly what to do. Crowley had gone on for a few minutes, thinking about whether he should stop and go back and offer him some help, just in case he needed it. Then he'd heard himself being called, and his life had momentarily found itself in one of those situations you only see in romantic comedies, like that damn movie with Gwyneth Paltrow, the one where the subway doors close and the whole course of things changes for that reason. Because she hadn't been able to get on the fucking subway.
Although he might have imagined it, he could not know at that moment.
The man's eyes were the purest and most transparent he had ever seen. The smile he gave him was the most open and radiant that could exist. He looked like an almost otherworldly being.
Crowley could not have known it, but the doors of his stupid imaginary train had closed in front of him because he had stopped on the lodge path to talk to a person he did not yet know.
And so, from that moment on, everything would be different.
The header of this story was done by this magic duck, my Favourite duck in the entire word: Martina a duck ❤️🦆
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Neil Gaiman, you madman. I found your psychotic code.
Do you want a preview of a gigantic *thing* I found hidden inside of Good Omens Season 2? Of course you do.
Please believe me when I tell you that when you remove every Minisode, Flashback, and Heaven/Hell scene from this season and put all the episodes back to back in one big timeline, the entire running time of season 2 is actually :
2 hours, 22 minutes and 22 seconds long, exactly.
And I can't wait to tell you what else I found in this version. This is just the beginning.
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