Word: realm
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...interconnected numbers laid out like a hopscotch pattern. Dedicating one issue to each "sephiroth," or number, Moore imagines each one as a real place corresponding to a part of our solar system, an aspect of divinity, and a card in the tarot deck. As Promethea travels to each realm she learns more and more about the nature of man and divinity...
...conventional superhero books present some sort of evil to be overcome, this series depicts the overcoming of reality. This narrative requires a different, refreshing way of reading a "superhero" book. It's more like one of those smart travelogues that doubles as an essay. "We're in the mercurial realm of language, magic and intellect. It's Hebrew name is 'Hod.' That means splendor," is a typical bit of sometimes overly-didactic dialogue. Moore delights in revealing how everything ties together, sometimes leaving the reader feeling lectured. Even so, he is enough of a storyteller to never...
...wizards). Muggles are non-magical humans who live oblivious to the fact that their society is infiltrated by a population of those who practice incantations and potion-making. Real-life muggles are the non-believers, the ones not indoctrinated into the ineffable charm of Rowling’s realm, while witches and wizards are the ones who love literally everything associated with the magically gifted, tousle-haired, bespectacled pre-teen with a lightning bolt scar on his forehead...
...wizards). Muggles are non-magical humans who live oblivious to the fact that their society is infiltrated by a population of those who practice incantations and potion-making. Real-life muggles are the non-believers, the ones not indoctrinated into the ineffable charm of Rowling’s realm, while witches and wizards are the ones who love literally everything associated with the magically gifted, tousle-haired, bespectacled pre-teen with a lightning bolt scar on his forehead...
...young Baudolino is brought under the loving protection of Frederick, the Holy Roman Emperor known to history as Barbarossa. As a grown man, Baudolino persuades the Emperor to give up trying to subdue the restive city-states of Italy and to journey instead to the Far Eastern realm of Prester John, a mythical Christian King. After Frederick dies (history says he drowned, but Eco has a more complicated explanation), Baudolino and friends continue in search of Prester John's realm...