Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.
Yi-Fu TuanIn a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.
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