Read it and weep
Jason Boyett does his first audiobook, and inadvertently discovers a Great Truth:
Never, ever write a book that includes long names like Zoroastrianism or Mictlantecuhtli if you plan to read it aloud some day. One of my chapters uses Zoroastrianism and Zoroaster about half a dozen times apiece. My goodness, this was a big mistake. Eventually I just started saying “Zorizzle” and “Z-dog” as replacement words. My apologies, Zondervan.
It could be worse. Zoroaster proclaimed Ahura Mazda to be the Lord of Wisdom, and Ahura Mazda had 101 names, an array well short of that once posited by Arthur C. Clarke, but still a lot to read.
