Babel


were not understandable in the way people were. These works were, it seemed, created to evade understanding while inviting it.
Andre Alexis • Fifteen Dogs
When God wanted to stop the people from building the Tower of Babel, he did not smite them down with a thunderbolt. He said: “… let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” He could think of no surer way to keep the tower unbuilt than to garble communications. While the Lord confounded langu
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