Thanks for joining us, Gary!
I agree. The repetition of the titles is not only hilarious, it downplays the importance of the title.
I like that you compare it to repeating a word so many times that it loses all meaning. This used to happen to me quite a bit when I was an adolescent. I remember one time in particular, when I was in junior high. I was studying my music for marching band. I was practicing the flute part without my flute (as mentioned in the
Musicophilia thread) for the song "It's a Small World" (the obnoxious Disney one that no one listens to if they can help it
), and for some reason, I stopped paying attention to the notes and began to stare at the title. The more I looked at the word "world," the less it looked like a word, and at first I began to question its spelling, which I then noted to be correct, and then its definition, and I said the word out loud over and over, remembering how it sounded, but eventually it just became a collection of letters that made absolutely no sense whatsoever, and was hard even to speak, and my mind could no longer remember the word "world" or why it was on the page or why it was spelled that way. I probably spent a good fifteen minutes reflecting on this notion until my mom called me for something and I snapped out of it.
This still happens occasionally, when I stare at a word for too long (especially the word "world," even now), but I try to shake it off quickly and not get sucked into the void of non-understanding. It's almost trance-like, and is very strange. "World" is the worst word for this purpose, followed only secondly by the word "spaghetti." Seriously, that's a tough word to break down and lose all concept of. So weird. And don't test it, it's really not pleasant. Just take my word for it (which I know you won't, because we're all very curious and at least one of you is going to try to make the word "spaghetti" lose all meaning
).
So I completely understand what you mean, Gary, about the titles eventually losing their significance, and the humanness of the angel and demon does seem to suggest to us that the existence of such beings is ridiculous, because when it boils down to it, they're just like us. That may have happened from spending too many centuries among humans, but if the "ineffable" plan really called for angels and demons to live among humans long enough to act and feel as humans do, then it makes you wonder about the nature of the "ineffable" plan and the existence of angels and demons, doesn't it?
I know it certainly makes me wonder.