“Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them”
Arthur Eddington
Sunday
Events that are too large to be perceived in immediate history register in the unconscious in the collective form of myth, and since artists and visionaries possess strongly mythopeotic imaginations, they can express in the microcosm of the works what is going on in the macrocosm of mankind.
Eric Hobsbawm
JUST AS WE CORRAL BEASTS TO KEEP THEM IN THEIR PLACE FOR OUR USE, AND AS WE SIT ON THE FENCE AND WATCH THEM RUMINATE ALL DAY LONG, WE WONDER HOW THEY CAN STAND TO EAT ALL THE TIME; SO DO THE GODS AND DEMONS CORRAL US INTO HISTORY, AND AS THEY SIT ON THE EDGE, WONDER HOW WE CAN STAND TO THINK ALL DAY LONG?
WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON
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