[Tropes — Rhetorical figures of thought that change meaning by changing the way something is named or identified. Opposed to schemes, which rearrange the order of words, tropes change the meaning of words, often creating new meanings. Metaphor, the trope in which one thing is substituted for another, is considered the master trope. Other tropes include hyperbole (exaggeration), synecdoche (substituting the part for the whole or the whole for the part), metonymy (replacing an object with one of its attributes), and periphrasis (circumlocution).]

Guess what, I just finished reading Promethea, and you were right: I loved it. I knew that I would as soon as I saw in the beginning that Moore was using Hermes and Thoth to initiate the Promethea legend. And, as fate would have it, I've been reading Derrida's 'Plato's Pharmacy' where he also mentions the role of Hermes/Thoth as the pharmakon of writing underlying the Platonic dialogues. He even mentions that pharmakos also signifies 'magician', 'wizard', or 'poisoner', and that Plato even calls Socrates a pharmakeus (synonym of 'pharmakos') in his dialogues!