Well, now. Let's see here... fella pits a desert demon, a mere djinn, against the power of a God, backs the djinn, and places his bet...
Gives a whole new dimension to the phrase "God's gonna get ya fer that!"
I mean, seriously - if you're going to invoke the wrath of your own deity against the people of another, far more powerful, deity, shouldn't you first at least pause a moment to consider which direction the wrath is actually going to flow in?
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Gives a whole new dimension to the phrase "God's gonna get ya fer that!"
I mean, seriously - if you're going to invoke the wrath of your own deity against the people of another, far more powerful, deity, shouldn't you first at least pause a moment to consider which direction the wrath is actually going to flow in?
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake