"In truth, Kael's unfailing wisdom and her unfailing clarity of vision seem more inhuman.
Nathanael West's novels, including Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), A Cool Million (1934), and The Day of the Locust (1939), used black comedy to create a bitter vision of an inhuman and brutal world and its depressing effects on his sensitive but ineffectual protagonists.
With an eight-frame lead and Ebdon needing to beat him 11-2 in the last session, Dott would have been inhuman not to have had visions of glory.
The frieze depicts the journey from Expectation to Fulfilment; Fulfilment is personified by an embracing couple - like the pair in The Kiss - enfolded in a glowing robe as the tree of life swirls around them, at once organic and coldly mineral, a vision of rapture almost inhuman in its sensuality.
"My vision of aliens is an inhuman, silicon-based life form that looks much more like a jellyfish than sci-fi's little green men".
Ironically, we accept this loss of power willingly, even eagerly, because it allows us to hold on to what seems to matter most to us: our vision of a war against inhuman evildoers, which brings us to... Mistake Number Five: To convince ourselves that the Islamic State is evil incarnate, we imagine that the enemy is as relentless, intractable, and implacable as the devil himself.
What about the common feeling that these lofty modernist visions often turned out to be oppressive and inhuman; that they could lead to the kind of disasters from which many cities – Birmingham for example – had to escape?
"I thought about how the vision of wildness with which I had begun my journeys – inhuman, northern, remote – was starting to crumble from contact with the ground itself.
These are not isolated phrases: the whole film rests on seeing Turing's outsider status and his unique perspective as two sides of the same coin: he is called "inhuman" and "a monster", a man apart even within geeky Bletchley Park; yet his vision and intuition are of universal value.
