Babylon 5 Characters as Literary Devices
BESTER: gallows humor, pejoratives
BYRON: off-rhyme
CARTAGIA: metonymy
DELENN: stage directions, catharsis, paralipsis
FRANKLIN: juxtaposition, truism
GARIBALDI: allusion (to Looney Tunes specifically), limerick (namely the one he taught Delenn)
G'KAR: hypophora, surrealism
IVANOVA: non sequitur, nemesis, pun, sardonicism, satire, tragicomedy
KOSH: foreshadowing (which therefore contributes situational irony)
LENNIER: enthymeme, pastiche
LOCHLEY: synecdoche, tautology
LORIEN: deus ex machina
LONDO: circumlocution, hamartia, hubris, volta
LYTA: litotes, oxymoron
MARCUS: idiom, verisimilitude
MORDEN: cacophony, syllogism, utopia
NA'TOTH: onomatopoeia, poetic justice
NEROON: in media res
SINCLAIR: enjambment, frame story
SHERIDAN: suspension of disbelief
TALIA: paradox, understatement
VIR: epiphora, parrhesia
ZACK: maxim, tmesis
ZATHRAS: mise en scene, malapropism
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Best Babylon 5 Character
Best B5 Character Contest
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Writing 8 whole pages (and counting) of fanfic for a character that next to no one in the fandom likes should be diagnosable as a mental illness
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All right this is two scenes in Babylon 5 where people are having sex with a crowd right outside the door.
I am not going to speculate on the possible reasons for this.
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She Walks in Beauty, George Gordon Byron
[ Text ID: So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, ]
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There Is Pleasure in the Pathless Wood
by George Gordon Byron
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean -- roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin -- his control
Stops with the shore; -- upon the watery plain
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
A shadow of man’s ravage, save his own,
When for a moment, like a drop of rain,
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.
His steps are not upon thy paths, -- thy fields
Are not a spoil for him, -- thou dost arise
And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields
For earth’s destruction thou dost all despise,
Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies,
And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray
And howling, to his gods, where haply lies
His petty hope in some near port or bay,
And dashest him again to earth: -- there let him lay.
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草のそよぎにも、小川のせせらぎにも、耳を傾ければそこに音楽がある。
There’s music in the sighing of a reed; There’s music in the gushing of a rill; There’s music in all things, if men had ears;
George Gordon Byron
ジョージ・ゴードン・バイロン
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