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I`m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but seeing as how there`s some reference to The Invisibles comic book series, I thought I`d give it a go.
At the end of American Death Camp, it was revealed that Boy had been undergoing "debugging" by Cell 23. One of the members of Cell 23, named Coyote, tried to explain to King Mob what they were doing, saying something along the lines of "I can`t explain this without bringing up *****(insert word composed of hidden alphabets here)..."
So there`s this interesting thing in languages, wherein the words for one thing may not exist in the english language. One example would be the Japanese word "betsubara" (beh-tzu-ba-ra), which basically describes the feeling you get when after having a full meal, you notice a bowl of ice-cream that you did not see before, and suddenly you have more space for it(literally, it means "other stomach"). Yet by the very fact that this word exists, we are able to name this feeling, and perhaps view it from a more direct angle - since we don`t have "betsubara" in english(unless someone comes along and enlightens me), we might characterize such behaviour(of finding more space for that ice-cream) as "gluttony" or "greed", neither of which is, in fact, "betsubara".
In Boy`s case, her need for revenge was going to kill her - but the only word we have for the vicious cycle of seeking out revenge that eventually leads to one`s own demise, isn`t a word in sense(more like a phrase), and perhaps in the case of Cell 23, the fact that they had words to describe the self-destructive nature of revenge allowed them to "see" it more clearly.
So my actual QUESTION is, has anyone else written about this stuff? That or anything pertaining to hidden words or how the fact that Eskimos have a whole book full of words to describe what passes as "ice" for us, may in fact speak of a completely different way of seeing the world?
Thanks in advance, sorry of this is in the wrong category.
(x-posted to grantmorrison fan site at lj) |
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