2003-05-04 - 3:43 p.m.
"Therefore we all feel what is meant by Prometheus stealing fire from heaven, until some prig of a pessimist or progressive person explains what it means. Therefore we all know the meaning of Jack and the Beanstalk, until we are told. In this sense it is true that it is the ignorant who accept myths, but only because it is the ignorant who appreciate poems."
(the everlasting man)
this does make the prospect of a life spent in lit. crit. sound the slightest bit ridiculous.
