herewiss13

Can you summon a demon from a horizontal pentagram (i.e. one tacked to a wall, or drawn on a chalkboard)? If you do, what happens? The pentagram is supposed to keep the demon from crossings its lines, so will the spirit just ignore gravity and stand sideways? Or will it falls onto the invisible "wall" of the pentagram, like a bug in a glass tipped sideways?

And why has this never been addressed? Seems like a much easier way to keep from scuffing the lines or having someone trip over it, etc.

This is, btw, a random tangent generated by the short story currently roiling its way through my head. There is no literary merit to this story. It's something Asimov should have written in the 50's, as it involves Einstein, Demonology and a horrible punchline only physicists could love; that nevertheless feels dangerously derivative of a Buffy Halloween episode (though I'm fairly sure the train of thought came first and the parallel followed later). Already, half of you know enough to make reading the damned thing redundant, but I'll probably follow through anyhow...if only because I've already got several paragraphs and the whole idea amuses me.

...plus I hate thinking of myself as a writer (which I do, based mainly on limited past performance) even though I don't (write)...especially since I read so many other _actual_ writers on LJ. It's not fanfic yet, but maybe it's a step in the right direction.