It is simple enough to construct a building that attracts lightning strikes, as might be a design requirement for a castle where a medical student can set about reanimating patchwork cadavers by harnessing the power of the elements. It should be equally straightforward, I reasoned, for a building to attract earthquakes. The main component would seem to be an array of earthquake rods piercing down into bedrock instead of upward-pointing lightning rods.
R. A. Lafferty rates for the "seven-handed game of brain-weaving" method of setting the ground a-tremble. However, he also informs us that only illusory tremors are created when serpentine humans meld their minds (though the illusion is good enough to fool seismographs as well as human observers), reducing their fitness for the purpose.
Never mind why we require a regular supply of seismic energy at Riddled Research Laboratories. We don't pry into your methods for twitching aside the lace-curtains of ignorance and delving into Promethean secrets that man was not meant to know, do we?But the architects I consult all swear that such a thing is not possible.* Ha! Then they become even more evasive and unhelpful when I show them the documentary proof:
Clearly the cover-up extends to the highest levels.* They also swear that a building perpetually on fire is also not possible, as if they think I haven't seen Synecdoche NY.
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R. A. Lafferty rates for the "seven-handed game of brain-weaving" method of setting the ground a-tremble.
I walk without rhythm, so I won't attract the worm.
Too late!
Is there worm-sign, Stilgar?
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WHY OH WHY did I move into the messiness-prone apartment? Finding the occasional quarter is just not worth it.
It is an indictment of lax town-planning regulations that architects are allowed to design meteorite-strike-prone homes purely to gratify a client's ego.
Why do they think it strange a meteorite hit a home owned by people named Comette? I find it stranger that a mineral expert's name is Carion.
I find it stranger that a mineral expert's name is Carion.
Another item for Tigris' wikipedia page.
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Synecdoche NY is filled with psychosis-prone buildings - must be seen to be believed! Pure mental terror, the truly modern horror flick. And I so love Phillip Seymour Hoffman. And for Substance, a nod there to Michel Gondry.
Thanks for mentioning this film.
Another thing I have learned from movies is not to live in a falling-jet-engine-prone house if your first name is Donnie.
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