In an attempt to improve productive efficiency, I’ve been reading up on critics A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It’s quite futile.

Bull, bird, Lucifer, Jesus, flight, eagle, Prometheus, Thoth, Daedalus and Icarus, Parsimonae, Minos – an endless list of religio-mythical characters that fuel so many divergent opinions among critics that one wonders whether the artistry is in the novel or in the critics’ mind (one of the central issues I’ve come across in aesthetics for KI).

Yes, humans like mythical issues even though most of us don’t believe in them. The mere suggestion of its truth, together with the magic of fiction, enthrals and ensnares the human imagination. I won’t be surprised if someone comes to believe in myths simply by studying them.

Myth and religion – thin line, but that’s for another day.