Summary Of Rick Moody's The Apocalypse Commentary Of Bob Paisner

Rick Moody’s, The Apocalypse Commentary of Bob Paisner is hardly an academic paper. The narrator, here a forthcoming graduate, traces his own experiences in college in the order of the Revelation of St. John. By random inclusion of parenthetical documentation of biblical scripture; and allusion to key apocalyptic figures, concepts, and events throughout the plot; Moody created a parallel between his life and the prophecy of John recorded in the book of Revelation. He marks each instance as a new section, labeled by a significant component of Revelation, in chronological order. Moody does little to expand upon or explain the prophecies of John beyond how he perceived them to be happening in his own life. However, this is successful in simplifying the original text. As it appears, Rick Moody’s humanistic rendition of Revelations embodies its reoccurring theme—the time before the end of time is the only life we have control over—although not directly stated. His characters are represented as symbols of prominent figures in the book of Revelation (i.e. Judith as the Whore of Babylon, Dodgson as the Antichrist), and furthermore share similar controls

How he described her came directly from The Book of Revelation: a woman clothed with the sun, the moon upon her feet, and a twelve-star crown upon her head. However, he also referred to her as the angel of the seventh seal, which is not mentioned in the original text, and made no mention of the dragon for which her story was included. Instead, Moody speaks of her as a symbol of love, alluding to the hundred and forty-four thousand sealed by the mark of God instead as heartbroken. Furthermore, this concept was presented in a much earlier chapter in Revelation than it is here. However, the dragon did come up in a later section that Moody titled The Seven Plagues, assuming its role as the