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* [[Older Than Feudalism]] literary example: The actual Tower Of Babel in ''[[The Bible]]''. Note that this isn't technically an example, as it was an [[Unbuilt Trope]] at the time.
** The fate of the N.I.C.E. in C. S. Lewis' ''[[That Hideous Strength]]'' is a shout out to the Biblical Tower of Babel.
** The Tower of Babel story is [[Older Than They Think]] -- an older Sumerian version of the story exists, [http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/36_babel.html as told here]. Technically, then, the version in the Bible is still an example of this trope.
** Given that the [[The Great Flood|flood]] had just happened, they may have just wanted a place to run to in case it happened again.
* In ''[[Snow Crash]]'', the [[Big Bad]] is attempting to spread an informational [[The Virus|virus]] that causes infected people to revert to the "language of Babel", supposedly a primitive language wired into the human brainstem. He uses this language to essentially take control of their minds. The language is incomprehensible to anyone who is uninfected and hasn't studied it extensively.
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