ENGA10H3 Lecture : English notes
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We only know the world through words. Myths of origin- myths that suggest how we began; disappears and then we begin it ourselves. God spoke the word, and the world was then formed - old testament. If you change the word, you change the world. Cannot stop racism because it works too well. Myths of progress- roads take you to a predestined place. Myth of origin- we go back to it to rationalize a bad decision what kills dorian gray is his myth of origin. If you give someone their myth of origin, that means you control them. When you influence someone, you give them their soul - henry (novel- Myths of origin become our future, in our beginning is our end. We can interrogate our beginning; self is a myth and has the capacity to pave our future, and can even get us fast.
