"Your code name will be Jack Frost"
May. 30th, 2010 09:17 pmRe-reading Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, and I finally realised something about the codenames: They are the things that the characters rail against. "Jack Frost," "King Mob," "Lord Fanny," "Tom O'Bedlam," and all the rest are the epithets and ideals against which they ineffectually raged, or which kept them from feeling the world, from being whole. They took them as their names, to own the concepts, so the concepts could no longer own them, and they turn them inside out to make the concepts and word combinations mean other than their consensus connotations.
That is a beautiful, wonderful concept, and a neat bit of self-conceptual Jujitsu. Well-done, Mr Morrison.
But more than this, it got me thinking: What would my Invisibles code name be? What would yours be?
Who among you is our Tom, willing to name names, unafraid of fallout?
Just a few thoughts...
That is a beautiful, wonderful concept, and a neat bit of self-conceptual Jujitsu. Well-done, Mr Morrison.
But more than this, it got me thinking: What would my Invisibles code name be? What would yours be?
Who among you is our Tom, willing to name names, unafraid of fallout?
Just a few thoughts...