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Some light similarity to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
by chi17 9y ago
Some light similarity to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
- gwern 9y agoI would say the precedent is more to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Land - nothing about the Tower of Babel was meant to house anyone or be self-contained, it was merely a ladder to the heavens.
- spookyuser 9y agoIt's not canon, but in Ted Chiang's short story about the tower of Babel. The tower was perpetually in construction, so a whole society eventually flourished in the tower. Some people never even left the tower because it took too long to get down from the place they were born.