1. The golem thus became a creation of overambitious and overreaching mystics, who would inevitably be punished for their blasphemy, very similar to Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and the alchemical homunculus .

2. Knitandpurl commented on the word Burnish "Close to the shore, patches of vapour, soot-black but with the Burnish and consistency of agate, visibly solid and palpable, were trying to rise one above another over the sea in ever wider tiers, so that the highest of them, poised on the top of the twisted column and overreaching the centre of gravity of those which had hitherto supported them