Ah, but read to the end of the essay: "So be it with Gnon. Our job is to placate him insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and invasion. And that only fo

Ah, but read to the end of the essay: "So be it with Gnon. Our job is to placate him insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and invasion. And that only for a short time, until we come into our full power." To give everything of yourself over to Gnon/Moloch is to deny Elua, who Scott names the god of art, science, philosophy, love, niceness, community, civilization. One might add to that: the god of play, of gardening – of reading.