The term “avalanche” in literature is employed in a wide-ranging and versatile manner. In some works it serves as a vivid metaphor for an unstoppable, overwhelming force; for example, Chekhov describes it as a crushing descent upon fragile lives [1], and Poe likens the act of arresting one to a futile, impossible task [2, 3]. In poetry and prose alike, the word conveys both literal natural phenomena—as seen in descriptions of snowy cascades in Victor Hugo’s verse [4] and in several accounts of Glacier National Park [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]—and figurative torrents of emotion or events, such as a flood of laughter [15], an outpouring of creative projects in Gogol’s narrative [16], or even the overwhelming rush of applause in Wagner’s memoir [17]. Authors like Mary Shelley [18, 19, 20, 21], Jules Verne [22, 23], George Eliot [24, 25, 26], and others further attest to its flexibility, employing "avalanche" to evoke both the tangible rumble of nature and the intangible power of human feeling or societal change [27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35].