It must be said as exactly as possible: the mythmaker is not a special kind of person, but every person is a special kind of mythmaker. First, however, it must be agreed that every person is a special kind of dreamer. Our dreams may not please us, but they are us – the slumbering storyteller, mysterious, funny and mad, waiting there in wings of our darkened theater, always impatient for a signal of delight – only then can be gathered all the other characters of intelligence to be joined on stage for all the sublime pitfalls of: now let me tell you a story. I am not attempting a text book history of myth. Rather my wish is to point to those markings which validate authentic myth, separating it from popular forms not rooted in immortal longings.
It must be said as exactly as possible: the mythmaker is not a special kind of person, but every person is a special kind of mythmaker. First, however, it must be agreed that every person is a special kind of dreamer. Our dreams may not please us, but they are us – the slumbering storyteller, mysterious, funny and mad, waiting there in wings of our darkened theater, always impatient for a signal of delight – only then can be gathered all the other characters of intelligence to be joined on stage for all the sublime pitfalls of: now let me tell you a story. I am not attempting a text book history of myth. Rather my wish is to point to those markings which validate authentic myth, separating it from popular forms not rooted in immortal longings.
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