Myth -- A Coda

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Paging further into my journal, I find this quotation from Robertson Davies, excerpted from a lecture of his called "Literature in a Country Without Mythology":

Mythology is the way in which a particular people has chosen to state its experience, not to impress other people but in the hope of understanding itself.


Which pretty much sums up most of my fictional writing.


And if you haven't read Davies' Sixth Business, you should.

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Thats a good quote. I'm putting that one on my cube.