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In the Biblical passage Revelation 6:8, a pale horse is ridden by Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The expression "behold a pale horse" has been used as the title of a 1964 film by Fred Zinnemann and a 1991 book by ufologist William Milton Cooper. Run one through To kill someone, usually by stabbing Euphemism
Davy Jones pictured by George Cruikshank in 1832, as described by Tobias Smollett in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. [1]Davy Jones' locker is a metaphor for the oceanic abyss, the final resting place of drowned sailors and travellers.
In Revelation 9:11, Abaddon is described as "Destroyer", [8] the angel of the Abyss, [8] and as the king of a plague of locusts resembling horses with crowned human faces, women's hair, lions' teeth, wings, iron breast-plates, and a tail with a scorpion's stinger that torments for five months anyone who does not have the seal of God on their ...
[62] Cuarón's disdain for back-story and exposition led him to use the concept of infertility as a "metaphor for the fading sense of hope". [ 62 ] [ 60 ] The "almost mythical" Human Project is turned into a "metaphor for the possibility of the evolution of the human spirit, the evolution of human understanding". [ 63 ]
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In the penultimate chapter of Red Plenty (2010), Francis Spufford's novelized history of Soviet economic ambitions in the 1960s, a character who has been reading Roadside Picnic sees it as a metaphor for the effort. [21] A tabletop role-playing game in 2012 titled Stalker was developed by Ville Vuorela of Burger Games. [22]