Relevant Late-Night Other Reading

Sometimes alternative reading resonates. This quotation is relevant to recently discussed science-magic, sf-fantasy combos:

Baron Winter: "Science and sorcery...an explosive combination. I hope you know what you're doing, Constantine."

-Alan Moore, Swamp Thing: A Murder Of Crows (New York, 2001), p. 171, panel 1.

(The problem with Constantine is that he always survives an ordeal but his allies often do not.)

Incidental reflection: John was the Fourth Evangelist and Constantine was the first Christian Emperor so, if names have power, then John Constantine must be powerful. Like Poul Anderson's Steve Matuchek, Constantine addresses an ultimate evil that threatens a multiverse where someone who is fictional on one parallel Earth can be real on another, e.g., both multiverses have their versions of Auberon and Titania. All fiction is one long series, it seems sometimes.