I dont know how to add examples, but in Gravity Falls whatever goes on inside Bill Cypher's head drove Old Man Mc Guckett crazy
Is there a reason this is These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know instead of simply Things Man Was Not Meant to Know? The first is long, unwieldy, and sounds like dialogue.
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I'm surpised that there isn't an I Shouldn't Even Be Here trope, for when humans stumble upon a place so strange, so nightmarish that they say "I shouldn't even be here!" and become insane when they escape, if they even escape.
Is there a trope for this? I've searched for half an hour with no luck.
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You probably want to ask in Lost And Found.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Picture is a bit wordy and campy considering the actual topic. At the same time, I have a hard time imagining how you can adequately have a picture for this trope at all.
I removed this:
- If you divide a positive, finite number with zero, you get infinity. If you divide a negative, finite number with zero, you get negative infinity. That's not weird. However, 0/0, infinity/0 and infinity/infinity are undetermined.
From the Real Life section. It's not correct. While the limit approaches infinity, one cannot say that you "get" infinity, as infinity isn't actually a number. Division by zero is undefined except in some very special cases. If anyone wants to argue the point, feel free.
Edited by INUH Infinite Tree: an experimental story
The second page quote is nice, but it really doesn't fit this trope. Can anyone think of a better place to put it, or may I simply remove it?
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I agree with you, so I removed it.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
Er, no, I meant the other quote... You see, this trope is about things which it's unhealthy to know because they're too big, too awful, whatever, for human nature to deal with them, like Frankenstein saying he shouldn't have tried to figure out the key to life and death. But the second quote just says that the brain "doesn't want" us to understand ourselves, not that it would be unhealthy to do so.
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Yeah, come on. Classic Trope Maker literature versus a quote from a Cracked article? Why on Earth would you think he was talking about the first one?
See you in the discussion pages.
The page image appears sideways. Is there a way to fix this?
Do it for science!