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Carl Muckenhoupt
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Rhombic dodecahedron disguised as a man
SarahHere it is, my little store full of puzzles:
Anyway, I mention it now because I just had a brainwave about it. You know how every single James Bond film starts with a brief scene of looking down the barrel of a gun as Bond walks into view, then whirls and shoots at the camera? (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q8-BMk-ADmY)
What if that's the only part that actually happens, and the entire rest of the film is the unseen dying gunman imagining that the guy who shot him was James Bond? It explains so much!
Every James Bond gun-barrel turn-n-shoot
The canonical introductory example is John Wick. For the first 20 minutes or so of the film, there's no suggestion that he's anything other than an ordinary sad man. Then he's attacked in his home and beaten to within an inch of his life, after which he suddenly turns out to be an elite hitman capable of enacting that ordinary man's desperate fantasies of survival and revenge. No, the more plausible explanation is that everything after the attack is imaginary.
There's this thing I like to do sometiems that I call the Owl Creek Bridge Game. I thought for sure I had mentioned this before here on Mastodon but it doesn't show up in a search of my posts. The idea is that you take a work of fiction and add the unexaminable assumption that the viewpoint character dies at some point in the story without realizing it, after which the rest of the story is either a dying dream or the afterlife. And you try to figure out where in the story this happens.
Lightfighter
- Humans have the ability to "conjure"
- They don't necessarily know that this is what they're doing -- it's implied that Pomni conjured the "exit door" in episode 1 just by wanting there to be an exit door
- Ragatha first appeared in the circus in Kinger's presence at a time when he was incredibly lonely
- Caine was surprised that this could happen
Did Kinger create Ragatha?
(Did Scratch create Kinger?)
Tears are such a weird idea. It’s like: when you’re distressed, your first recourse for communicating this to others is vocalization. If it’s too strong for that, you get involuntary facial contortions for emphasis. But if that’s not enough either? You secrete a special distress communication fluid.
peterbBecause Bond is essentially a defender of the status quo. An ordered, predictable system where not everyone is on top, but everyone knows their place. His villains aren't revolutionaries exactly, but already wealthy and powerful people who want a higher place in that hierarchy. OK, why should we care which rich asshole is in charge? Because these ones, unlike the ones we've got, are dangerously unreliable.