there is a concept of the “thin plate”, which goes by the word LAMELLA
which has cousin words like laminate (like the plastic converting concept) and lame (broken things)
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well Lamella is a fiction of horror movies of things like the 1979 Alien or Vampires or Bugs Nests and so on. Where the creature is like a Balloon with an outer surface we interact with but somehow the monster can somehow get into our house like a chestbuster, or the vampire turning into mist, bats, bugs, etc. The smallest amount of hole is all the monster needs to insert itself into, and then it will rebuild itself in your home into its full glory
Primal Horror
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Well comic book characters are also like this, they have an outer later but also inside organs … and peoples ideas of comic book characters have different mixture of inside organs. No two takes on superman are the same for when you have thousands of points of reference people are pulling from different mixture of sources. Including sources not inside the text but in the person’s own life world. Comic book characters are like a liquid and like a solid, they are jello.
So let’s get to the point where I can derive dozens of different directions from my 4 paragraphs. What if Superman is Oedipus the King, an adopted child from another place? What if Superman is Moses with the River? What if Superman is God? What if Superman is friend? What if Superman is enemy?
One of the most important concepts in many traditions … one we see inside of … what if god is one of us?
• For in Greek, Hebrew, and many other traditions the concept of Theoxenia was the most important concept, for anyone can be friend or enemy, anyone can be a mortal man or a god hidden in disguise,
• • or a chimeric monster made from a clone bed for Lex Luthor wants the alien to fuck him followed by the alien bowing down to his will. To be fucked by the ultimate man but also the ultimate man to be a sub to Lex’s will. After all … When Queen Sisygambis mistakenly bows before Hephaestion, Alexander tells her not to worry, "for actually he too is Alexander" . (yes Alexander’s best friend, was also taller than him, who freaking cares)
Shrug that is the magic of stories you can go in almost infinite directions like a tower of babel. The monster of the sphinx, a chimeric monster, it two is also too, where it is man and woman, god and man, man and animal, night and day, it’s horror is not even here with us now, but also in the past and future. It too is LAMELLA but also lame
Be kind to one another, or NOT the choice is up to you!