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Beowulf
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...it is the business of myth to condense and contain the most fundamental sources of cultural tension -- those areas in which the self and the world are in greatest friction -- and to validate current ideologies by dramatizing them and retrojecting their contours into the past.
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― Beowulf
― Beowulf
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It is a great wonder
How Almighty God in his magnificence
Favors our race with rank and scope
And the gift of wisdom; His sway is wide.
Sometimes He allows the mind of a man
Of distinguished birth to follow its bent,
Grants him fulfillment and felicity on earth
And forts to command in his own country.
He permits him to lord it in many lands
Until the man in his unthinkingness
Forgets that it will ever end for him.
He indulges his desires; illness and old age
Mean nothing to him; his mind is unt
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