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In End of Days the devil is first seen as a transparent watery wrinkle that rises out of a manhole and sashays into the men's room of a restaurant, whereupon it makes a forcible entry into the body of a prominent investment banker played by Gabriel Byrne.
With a hopeless bod like that, it's no surprise that the devil would rather look like Gabriel Byrne.
Byrne, as D'Artagnan, the fourth musketeer, torn between his loyalty to the king and to his all-for-one/one-for-all compatriots, has the most complicated role and carries it off with real dignity and discernment (which means, of course, that he's just a teeny bit dull).
Memorizing words is not the point of this book which, in addition to two titles, has a subtitle: “A literary distillation of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Webster's International , and Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words .” The book is a list of words, with remarkably succinct definitions, that have captured the author's fancy for one reason or another.
It's terribly tasteful and grown-up, but not half as compelling as musketeer Gabriel Byrne's fervid declaration to foxy Queen Mother Anne Parillaud in The Man in the Iron Mask : "To love you is a treason against France--not to love you a treason against my heart."
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