The Cretan from Bohemia

Hundredpoundowl

• 19 december 2017
• 9781981898008

Samenvatting:

Four episodes are each a story in themselves concerning: “Works of Words”: “Fangs of Fear”: “Guile of Greed”: concluding with “Woes of War” using the lessons learned in the three towns exemplifying their titles the book ends with the chapter, “Beautiful Endings”—although the beauty in the end is after much change and deaths. Every episode and chapter deals with an effect our world has on us. Chapter two, “A Log and Thirsty Bones” is when the protagonist (Creebo) leaves his home town crossing a desert where he then hears a log speaking to him from a stand of fruit trees by a stream. Chapter three, “Bumps and Other Unpleasant Things” is the first town Creebo comes to; where “were waRts On mAd fAces and bUmPs iN weiRd pLaces, wAs hEard mUch cRuel cursiNG—nO pLeasanT conVersing”. The eyes of each town’s inhabitants are as windows of souls; as in the first town are “black with a sheen of mean”. In, “Kids and Clues” two children are made whole of their progressing afflictions caused by the toxic environment of whiplashing words. Creebo, is then condemned to the dungeon of “Lord Calumny” in, “Dungeons and Other Dark Things”. Representing the Antichrist, Lord Calumny uses the Book of Revelation to devise a plan to eliminate the “Jesusaires”, the followers of Creebo. Creebo is, “Dearly Delivered” by a tree and creatures—“dirt-besmirched servants”, including “the two flies that knew him, forever flying around his head”.“Works of Words” culminates with, “Crimson and Gold”, which, log-now-tree represents. With a farewell speech from Creebo a Scripture is nailed onto it. The transition between the episodes are poems in themselves, setting the story’s mood—which is sometimes as a cliff-hanger—and the book ends with a poem summing up the entire story using the book’s purpose: to hear and state what God says. Episode two, “Fangs of Fear” begins with the henchmen of Lord Calumny looking for Creebo, illustrated by an interlude poem. It begins with a chapter called, “Garden of Fright”, where Creebo faces his fear of death and overcomes it by preaching the words he read in “the old book by his bed” to all the deadly creatures living in a dark, swampy woods. Creebo then meets a man (Samson) that remains a crucial character until the end of the book. “Serving Tension for Two” where a restaurant in the second town of the story where everyone’s eyes are huge as owl’s from fright that rules their soul. Searching for Creebo, the town becomes surrounded by henchmen. Creebo and Samson divinely escape capture. The town is delivered from the henchmen by a huge swarm of bees by the direction of God’s hand in, “Bees Please”. One of the henchmen blinded by the sting of bees is filled with God’s spirit and becomes another companion of Creebo in “Pardon in Part”. The third episode, “Guile of Greed”, takes place in a walled town of millionaires where Creebo finds a pearl called Eve who becomes his spiritual daughter in the chapter, “Dinner and a Meeting”. The episode could be called, “The Deceit of Riches”—as Jesus put it. The last episode, “Woes of War” plays out the true war we all are in and the weapons of it, all of which will soon culminate with the Antichrist. In, “Welcome Back” and “Jackboot Jamboree” Creebo and company are brought before the Beast and the Antichrist and are condemned and attacked by the beast. The hand of God delivers the world of Lord Calumny’s rule by opening hell’s abyss in, “Turnstile’d Intents”. The book makes clear reality will be worse in the future and this book is a lifeline of the Truth from the Word of God.