Kaddish (The X-Files) that love is the central conceit of the episode. Although, in the myth of the Golem, the creature is soulless, Gordon took "some liberties" with the legend. He wanted "Kaddish" to "literally be about resurrection". Ariel creates an imperfect reflection of her husband by crafting the Golem from mud. In essence, she is trying to play God, a role that Gordon later likened to Victor Frankenstein, the scientist from Mary Shelley's famous novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" (1823). However, Ariel and Frankenstein differ in the fact that Ariel's flaw was related to her "loving [Isaac] too much, not being
The Modern World (novel) events and frightened of losing his closest friend, he reveals that he has begun to use the drug scolopendium once again. The Modern World (novel) The Modern World is a fantasy/science fiction novel (2007) by Steph Swainston and is the sequel to "The Year of Our War" (2004) and "No Present Like Time" (2005). "The Modern World" is published as Dangerous Offspring in the USA. The first chapter of "The Modern World" is available on Steph Swainston's website The novel is set in the Fourlands, a country in danger of being overrun by large hostile Insects, and follows the exploits