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There's something pretty magnificent about the way seven-minute opener Time Collapse/The 7th Terror goes about its business: low-end and high-end guitars strut in perfectly evil unison (it's not exactly camp, but certainly a bit schlocky) then break into a glorious, storytelling solo and end on a hypnotic, megalithic stomp.
Philo then proceeds to outline four possible hypotheses about the cause of the universe: it is perfectly good; it is perfectly evil; it is both good and evil; it is neither good nor evil.
Indeed, I'd worked for Rupert Murdoch's perfectly evil Newscorp for four years and had never begrudged my dark overlords their right to pay my rent.
This was a bit of purely inspired casting, as Jim Cunningham and his "Fear vs. Love" self-help empire was the perfectly evil parody of the supernaturally-energetic, guru-figure Swayze cultivated throughout his career.
Nobody is perfectly good and nobody is perfectly evil, even the antagonists.
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No society is either perfectly virtuous or evil; both malice and kindness exist everywhere.
Also: "Your basic Fat Evil Prick, perfectly cast as a dictatorial committee chairman: He has the requisite moist-with-sweat pink neck, the dour expression, the penchant for pointless bile and vengefulness".
As if to underline the point that good and evil are not perfectly divided, Bulgakov has him decide the fates of the Master and Margarita with Jesus's whining apostle Levi Matvei, a man who resides in Heaven but who is so annoying you want him off the page immediately, so you can continue to luxuriate in the presence of Satan.
In short, their evil intent was perfectly suited to the BSA," said Roberto.
In the second case, the contradiction is in the idea of a perfectly good being choosing to do evil.
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