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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.