Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.