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Recording Angel

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noun

  1. an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts

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Short of the unexpected appearance of a Recording Angel, there isn't much a memoirist can do to pull aside that two-ply veil.

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One is the Lesser Zadkiel, an assistant to the Recording Angel; the other is a daimon called Maimas, who steered Francis Cornish through his existence.

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Ultimatum Every day a slim, grey agent of the Recording Angel scans all the newspapers which reach his Philadelphia office, meticulously snips out every item about every suicide.

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Robert Louis Stevenson, the householder some times kiddingly reminded his wife, said that to marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel.

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God saw the look that she turned on me as she spoke, and if there be indeed a Recording Angel that look is noted to her everlasting honour.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker