Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for May 29, 2023

The devil is in the details

Where’s his Visitor badge??!!

Calling Michael! Intruder alert!

It wouldn’t matter: The dam​ned have freely made themselves incapable of enjoying Paradise or anything else. As Milton’s Satan laments in Paradise Lost, Book 4,

Me miserable! which way shall I fly

Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?

Which way I fly is He​ll; myself am He​ll 73-75

O, then, at last relent: Is there no place

Left for repentance, none for pardon left?

None left but by submission; and that word

Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame 79-82

After all, it is said of God,

“You lead me in the path of life.

I experience absolute joy in your presence;

you always give me sheer delight." Psalm 16:11

If you reject the path of life, absolute joy, and sheer delight, you’re probably not having fun.

I thought that community was gated.

Beer and wine? Heck, why not.

Lieutenant with a clipboard, most dangerous thing on the battle field.

Happy? Memorial Day

That’s the Heck of it!

Getting out, however, can be trickier.

Except for downtown St. Louis at night…

The Hell you can.

He’s going to cause mischief. Going to let the Baptists know they’re not the only ones here.

“You’re the Devil in Disguise” E.A. Presley

Same thing with traffic cones. Carry a couple, three around in your car and you can park anywhere you please if you just put out the cones around the car. Fire plug, driveway, you name it.

They serve wine and beer there?…