"I used to think about giants all the time when I was a kid. Everything big looked like it played some role in the world of the giants who stalked the land by night. I liked to wonder whether the trees & hills & mountains weren’t in fact the bodies of giants who came to life while the world slept. Much later, I played a demo of a video game called Shadow of the Colossus whose idea was quite similar, and I was pretty stoked for the concept, but the giants in Shadow of the Colossus didn’t seem to have any inner lives, and it is imperative that giants have inner lives. What is the point of having a giant if he is not tormented? The meaning of giants is that they suffer. That is how they are like us. The way they are not like us is that they have puny creatures scrambling around their toes on whom they can vent their sorrows. That is also the way in which they are like us. The first politician to address the truly important question of what to do about the inner lives of giants will get my vote no matter what else he believes."
