Babel, Tower of

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1. In the Book of Genesis, a tower that the descendants of Noah built. They intended that the tower would reach up to heaven itself, increase their reputation, and make them like God. God prevented them from completing the tower by confusing their language so that they could no longer understand one another's speech. From that time forward, according to the Bible (see also Bible), the peoples of the Earth would be scattered, speaking different languages.

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“Babel” is confusion and noise.

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That Saunders chose to relay it via a Babel tower of voices from both sides of this mortal coil made the novel feel simultaneously psychedelic and profound, paternal devotion wrapped in a ghost story.

From New York Times

Photograph: Sutton-Hibbert / Rex Features "Sooner or later some such book as this had to be written…" said Basil Hogarth in The Technique of Novel Writing, published in 1934 – possibly the first in what is now a Babel tower of creative writing manuals available to new writers.

From The Guardian

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