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| Oct 25, 2021 | » | Stories of Your Life and Others
14 min; updated Jan 17, 2026
Stories of Your Life and Others.
Ted Chiang.
2010.
ISBN: 9781931520898 .
Tower of Babylon |
| Dec 23, 2022 | » | Doom Patrol (1987 - 1995)
13 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
Doom Patrol (1987-1995).
Grant Morrison; Richard Case; John Nyberg.
PunchlinesFather McGarry has long since ceased to believe in miracles. Saturdays, he
trudges out to the dump, looking for God among the debris. Saturdays are
always the longest days and, in the winter, chilly. He asks for very little.
Some trace, some evidence, some spoor of the divine. Some sign. It begins to
rain fish. Mackerel. Herring. Sea bass. Pike. Sturgeon. Tench. Plaice. Salmon.
From a clear sky. Trout. No cod. |
| Apr 10, 2022 | » | Snow, Glass, Apples
3 min; updated Jul 29, 2023
Snow, Glass, ApplesSnow White is a vampire. She fed on her father (consensually?), the King, to the point of him being a shadow of a man. Her stepmother, the Queen, was only 18 when the King died. The Queen had witnessed Snow White’s vampirism, and so she had a servant kill her by carving out her heart and dump her in the forest. ... |
Story focused on Hillalum, who lived during the construction of the Tower of Babel .
notes that the Hebrew school version was more elaborate than the Old Testament account, e.g. the tower is so tall that it takes a year to climb, and when a man falls to his death, no one mourns, but when a brick is dropped, the brick-layers weep because it will take a year to replace.
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