Do we ever live really in the present? I don’t think so, not entirely, do you?...There are always intrusions, sometimes welcome, sometimes not, from … - Nadine Gordimer

Everyone wears the uniform of how he sees himself or how he disguises himself.

Since humans became self-regarding they have sought, as well, explanations for the common phenomena of procreation, death, the cycle of seasons, the earth, sea, wind and stars, sun and moon, plenty and disaster. With myth, the writer's ancestors, the oral story-tellers, began to feel out and formulate these mysteries, using the elements of daily life — observable reality — and the faculty of the imagination — the power of projection into the hidden — to make stories.

ثمة شيء مخادع في الإذعان بالنسبة إلى شخص لم يحسب أنه أذعن يوما !