Dispatches from the Buffyverse

(1) Precedent for the Hellmouth:

On an island in the west of Ireland,  an entrance to Purgatory was revealed to St Patrick, that he might overcome the obstinacy of those whom he was trying to convert.

-- The Oxford Companion to English Literature

More re antecedents for the Hellmouth:

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-proto-buffy.html


(2) The vision of “Once More with Feeling” (“They Got the Mustard Out”):

If reapers sing while reaping, why should not auditors sing while auditing, and bankers while banking?

-- G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles (1909)