A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
神话
Myth
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
如果你把神话和民间传说,以及这些用符号来表达的东西,它们可以用很多方式来解释,尽管实际的图像足够清晰,但解释是无限模糊的,就像你能想象的各种颜色的巨大彩虹。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
你的神话的深度是你的效力的程度。
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
它是一个神话,而不是命令;它是一个寓言,而不是逻辑;
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
我想在神话和遥远的未来之间摇摆,昨天,今天,明天。感觉有点像预言,有点像讲故事。
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
历史就是现在。这就是为什么每一代人都在重新书写。但大多数人认为的历史是它的最终产物,神话。
Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
后现代主义者认为真理是神话,神话是真理。这个等式起源于流行心理学。同样的人也相信情感是现实的一种形式。过去这种心态有另一个名字。它曾经被称为精神病。
The shaping of deeply felt values into meaningful, apposite form, is present in all communities, and will find some means of expressions among all.
所有社区都存在着将深刻感受的价值观塑造成有意义的、恰当的形式的现象,并将在所有社区中找到某种表达方式。