Ice
Ice is a frequently employed symbol
within the genre of science fiction; (note Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,
Ursula K. LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness, William Gibson’s Neuromancer
). It is a symbol of rigidity, frigidity, the waters of the earth as opposed to
the fresh and living WATER of the fountain of Paradise.
It is coldness, absence of love, difficult and unexplored territory not conducive
to human life and life in general. With winter, the season of death. In Dante,
a deep part of Hell. In psychology, the dividing line between the conscious and
the unconscious.
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