The audio explains how contemporary art movements—even literature and cinema—have roots in this work, created in isolation, without self-censure. It goes on to discuss how the mythological god—Saturn—can be seen as the personification of feelings such as the fear of losing one’s power; that he is said to have consumed his children out of a terror of being overthrown. And then, almost as an afterthought, the narrator says that one of Saturn’s sons—Jupiter—escaped. That Jupiter’s mother protected the child, kept him safe. And that as an adult, he returned and made good on the prophecy. That the
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