Red Sea

The doors of the Dibbsy Store in the 925th Universe were once described as parting “like the Red Sea”, although in another telling they had instead parted like “the red seas”, plural and uncapitalised. (PROSE: A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (2024 reedit))

Behind the scenes

This is an allusion to Moses parting the Red Sea as per the Book of Exodus. In the first published draft of the edited version of PROSE: A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas, this phrase was notably rendered by Callum Phillpott plural and uncapitalised, though this was altered to simply “the Red Sea” a day later.

Either way, it may also be notable that the deliberately esoteric lyrics of Man at C&A, the song which inspired the creation of the Man in Grey, allude to the Red Sea with the line “The Man in Black, he told me the latest Moscow news, about the storm across the Red Sea…”.