The myth of you and me

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:


"I have often had the fancy that there is some one myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

—W. B. Yeats, Essays and Introductions

Comments

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

oooh, I really like that. It's a light sort of profound.

[pjthompson]

Yeats may have been something of a crack pot, but he understood the heart of myth like few others, I think.

[sboydtaylor.livejournal.com]

The title of the post first reminded me of Paul Simon's the myth of fingerprints. ("It's the myth of fingerprints... man, they're all the same"). That everybody's fingerprint is still a fingerprint... that we're all still people, and we shouldn't take advantage of each other.

The Yeats quote I interpret as meaning each person has their own, unique, myth that they follow.

It was a misinterpretation of your title to be sure, but it was illuminating, too. I got to see two artistic views of reality (which, to some extent, I believe) butting heads.

[pjthompson]

I don't know...they're both talking about the uniqueness of each human being in a way. We may all be human and the same in that way, but in the end our fingerprints are different. We are unique within our sameness.