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Perhaps they were going for an association with Allen Ginsburg's Howl (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl) instead?



Reminds me of when someone saw that the NSA's public key (http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html) to be included in Lotus Notes had an organizational name of "MiniTruth", and a common name of "Big Brother".

Moloch isn't the good guy in Howl.

Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!

Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!

Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!


Moloch the dude in the cubicle across from mine that always eats his lunch at his desk and chews with his mouth open!

Moloch the meddling micromanager from Maine!

Moloch the Junior Architect!

Moloch the 3-space indenter!


Wasn't Allen Ginsburg also in favor of child abuse?... He was a member of NAMBLA...

At least Moloch isn't real.


which is the same referent, and begs the same question: "What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?"




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