tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post7986473025756816599..comments2024-03-27T19:04:14.544-05:00Comments on The Absorbascon: Rocky Grimes Week #2: IT'S LIKE A SYMBOL!Scipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-26063785892249035242013-04-02T16:33:09.379-05:002013-04-02T16:33:09.379-05:00We need a term of art for moments like these, wher...<i>We need a term of art for moments like these, where a villain adopts his idiosyncrazy. That moment where the criminal finally looks up from his life and sees the gears of the mechanisms of irony in which he is enmeshed and decides not to escape the mechanism but to use it to his advantage, to turn it against his enemies. </i><br /><br />I take medication to avoid moments like that.TotalToyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17458868361840649001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-69949952892650651732013-04-02T16:01:47.888-05:002013-04-02T16:01:47.888-05:00Wait. So you're saying instead of a peripeteia...Wait. So you're saying instead of a peripeteian epiphany of evil, it's an apophenic epiphany of evil? <br /><br />No, that's not right. It would be a peripeteian apophany of evil, wouldn't it? <br /><br />Damn those Greeks and their twisty, slippery words. Set me straight, Scipio. Bryan Lnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-41704562138564390752013-04-02T15:10:04.699-05:002013-04-02T15:10:04.699-05:00Sally's point is a strong one.
These "mo...Sally's point is a strong one.<br /><br />These "moments" are an unscientific mind's attempt to impose meaning on the vicissitudes of life, to see patterns where there is only coincidence and chaos. Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112155718721908876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-2097254439478915182013-04-02T11:52:28.983-05:002013-04-02T11:52:28.983-05:00Most of them are faking it, though, to avoid the t...Most of them are faking it, though, to avoid the truth that their villainous career was already long-established through their Nominative Destiny.<br /><br />I mean, Roy G. Bivolo probably has a story about how a prism and a rainbow ruined his career as a petty thief and it was that that caused him to become the Rainbow Raider, but everyone has to know he's just fooling himself.Jeff R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-379460071505266372013-04-02T09:01:19.895-05:002013-04-02T09:01:19.895-05:00I think he hires an undergrad to crawl around in f...I think he hires an undergrad to crawl around in front of him with a flashlight.Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112155718721908876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-37657585809844122072013-04-02T08:41:03.518-05:002013-04-02T08:41:03.518-05:00Bonus points to the Scarecrow for working the Goth...Bonus points to the Scarecrow for working the Gotham City runway lighting. Nice silhouette. Bryan Lnoreply@blogger.com