Potent Word
The idea of discourse that has power in and of itself. Can be utilized to create non-conventional antagonists, e.g., an utterance that uncreates a person, a book that is consuming the world, etc.
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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. |
| Feb 12, 2023 | » | Clean Room (2015 - 2017)
2 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
Clean Room (2015 - 2017).
Gail Simone; Jon Davis-Hunt; Walter Geovani; Sanya Anwar.
Snapshots[Chloe] The Haverlin brothers from next door came to visit, when my mother did not. They pulled me out. I told them I was grateful because I didn’t want to make them sad. Sometimes the truth hurts the people with the best hearts the most. ... |
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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