the arts

Like anyone who has to write in order to find out what he is thinking, I can only say what I hope this piece will be. If it goes the way I hope it might, it should have more than a nodding acquaintance with the True Myth thread. What will become apparent quite quickly, and might as well be confessed now, is that I have done very little study of the history or essential nature of myth as a literary form. Which is not to say that my affection for myth and respect for its role is stylistic, rather that this respect arises from a sense of how deeply we are, individually and socially, susceptible to and in deep need of mythic narrative.