Requiem: Avenging Angel within the game manual with a Biblical quote. For example, one of Malachi's attacking powers turns an enemy into a statue of salt. This power is explained via the following quote: "But Lot's wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt. - Genesis 19:26." Certain locations have followed this theme too, with humanity's starship named Leviathan after a sea monster from the Old Testament. The game's concept and premise were heavily inspired by John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost". In contrast to the interconnected world seen in the final game, early in development the plan was
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the short story collection "Dubliners" (1914) earned Joyce a place at the forefront of literary modernism. Born into a middle-class family in Dublin, Ireland, James Joyce (1882–1941) excelled as a student, graduating from University College, Dublin, in 1902. He moved to Paris to study medicine, but soon gave it up. He returned to Ireland at his family's request as his mother was dying of cancer. Despite her pleas, the impious Joyce and his brother Stanislaus refused to make confession or take communion, and when she passed into a coma they refused to kneel and pray for her. After a