As I grow older, the fact of the existence of the world's huge compendium of changing and unchangeable tales seems to me more, not less, mysterious. How can they so steadily resemble each other, wherever they come from? How can they be so abstract and so concrete?
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What movie do you think does something admirable (though not necessarily accurate) regarding science? Bonus points for answering whether the chosen movie is any good generally....
"The world is full of light and life, and the true crime is not to be interested in it." A.S. Byatt
"What seems a detour has a way of becoming, in time, a direct route." Richard Powers
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Wasn't that the thesis of Joseph Campbell and his "theory with a thousand faces?"
Sure, and Frazier is relevant, and Jung - the question is if you find any of the explanatory myth frameworks offered satisfactory. . . and even if you do, you can still be astonished, as Byatt is :)