Falling like angels cast out of a place in the past perhaps heaven or whatever it was no doubt some serious hell should we call ourselves Gabriel appearing to some latter day Daniel in some feverish dream revealing specifics beyond the tablets the fine print of the Commandments consoling him with the 11th edict Do not fuss and keep your own counsel the way a lawyer would to a client who couldn't afford to pay it is doubtful that Daniel feared the visions or the night Lucifer had not yet been invented Milton had not yet penned that portrait of pride and Satan was also far from Daniel and when Gabriel came to Muhammad he said he was reciting from a book so for all of us Christian and Muslim and Jew the back story was written first and read later rewritten to the best of the recollection of prophet whether friend or foe and repeated thereafter to help us trade places with the prophets and hear the words they heard for ourselves that's the...