The Global Standard Deity & the Sun God

The very Irreverent Joffy Next was the minister for the Global Standard Deity’s first church in England. The GSD has a little bit of all religions, arguing that if there was one God, then He would really have very little to do with all the fluff and muddle down here on the material plane, and a streamlining of the faiths might very well be in His interest. Worshippers came and went as they pleased, prayed according to how they felt most happy, and mingled freely with other GSD members. It enjoyed moderate success, but what God actually thought of it no one ever really knew.”

Chapter 21’s intro note on The Global Standard Deity found in Jasper Fforde’s novel Lost in a Good Book.

I read Fforde’s The Eyre Affair a while back, and am just finishing (in my just before sleep reading) the second book in the series, Lost in a Good Book.

FWIW … another [timely] quote:

The camera switched back to the studio.

“Trouble at MoleTV,” continued the anchorman, “and a bitter blow for the producers of Surviving Cortez, the channel’s popular Aztec conquering reenactment series when, instead of being simply voted out of the sealed set of Tenochtitlan, a contestant was sacrificed live to the Sun God. The show has been canceled and an inquiry has been launched. MoleTV were said to be ‘sorry and dismayed about the incident’ but pointed out that the show was ‘the highest-rated on TV, even after the blood sacrifice.’ Brett?”

The camera switched to the other newsreader …
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Fforde’s Thursday Next novels are constantly referred to as “Harry Potter for adults …” On the contrary, I see nothing wrong with Harry Potter FOR adults.

But, that said, it’s fun reading.

Fford’s page.

There’s two news stories currently making the rounds which make the excerpts above seem timely.