In spite of worthy, and indeed indispensable, attempts to become different, history, as its clearsighted practitioners are obliged to admit, can never completely divest itself of myth.
– Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss.
In spite of worthy, and indeed indispensable, attempts to become different, history, as its clearsighted practitioners are obliged to admit, can never completely divest itself of myth.
– Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss.
On a related note, Tolkien always described himself as a historian with regard to the Lord of the Rings saga. And then, you know, with Adler I’m fighting the myth with my history. …Dog chasing tail. :) – TL
Galdalf,
So there’s history in myth as well as myth in history, I suppose.
Frodo