Although this question is never explicitly raised in the film, the postmodern, dystopian world within which the action takes place -- a world that is overcoded, that contains an unmanageable jumble of advertising appeals from disembodied voices along with a heteroglot of language and speech styles that threaten both self-understanding and mutual intelligibility — makes an implicit point.

The olivine crystals in most basalts are imperfect, lacking clear crystal faces.

Lord of remembrance in the Hall of Justice, Secret ba of the lord of the cavern, Holy in White-Wall, Ba of Re, his very body.

Up ahead three young bare-footed girls in goatskin attire and jewelried necks were moving their small flock with gnarled droving stocks quickly down the mountain.