pallid

When the new Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels opened in September with its pallid array of commissioned art, I couldn’t help wondering how different it might have been had Bill Viola been invited to contribute a work.

He looked frail and pallid — a shadow of the man Tawana knew.

It is all too easy to trace the skull beneath the Gazan boy’s face, the pallid skin stretching tight over every curve of bone and sagging with every hollow.

It is a nova, a nuclear explosion bursting forth from the pallid corpse of a long-dead star.

The move to Arrakis goes catastrophically wrong; Paul’s father and most members of House Atreides are murdered by their enemies, most notably the pallid, villainous House Harkonnen.