There is a theme in literature of a “death list”. The idea is that the act of adding someone’s name to a list in a book or on a piece of parchment condemns that person to death.<\/p>\n
This idea pops up in works as disparate as Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado<\/i> and Tsugumi Ohba’s Death Note<\/i>. But today it occurred to me that there could be interesting variations.<\/p>\n
For example, this afternoon I went on Wikipedia to see what famous people were born on this day. I got to one entry in particular, and found that I had a strong urge to delete it.<\/p>\n
“Imagine,” I thought to myself, “If I could just remove this one name from the list, then that particularly destructive person would never have been born. Think how much better off we would all be right now.”<\/p>\n
Alas, as far as I know there is no such superpower. But it would make a great idea for an operetta or a Japanese manga, wouldn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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