Tool Time in Theory and Practice

The Great Beast crops up in the strangest of places:

In episode 168 'Taking Jill for Granite' of the television show "Home Improvement" we find Tim "the Tool Man" Taylor seeking advice from his neighbor Wilson, a common conceit of the show. Wilson is played as a sage-like figure, a living and breathing encyclopedia of wisdom and knowledge, armed with an arsenal of quotes to fit any oocasion. Tongue firmly in cheek, of course.

Wilson, face obscurred, offers this to his bumbling neighbor: ''...I am reminded of the English writer Aleister Crowley who said that "falsehood is invariably the child of fear."

As I said, the strangest of places.