A Bison is Sometime Not a Bison

I agree with those who advocate that not everything can be done with reason. Those who discard myth and poetry are indeed shallow. In the end, I think more can be done with a story than abstraction. However, it is desirable not to jump to conclusions but keep a speculative mind.

I have a journalist in my family and you bet she loves it when I tell her things like this. Amid all her practical work - there's me - seeping darkness.

But the story goes on: why should we not view what plausibly explains the physical world by its being a bulwark against the here and now, i.e. banality? I've always maintained the metaphor of light and darkness a particularly primal and powerful one, so what's wrong with igniting a torch in the cave and looking at the drawings?

I've read a guy proclaiming Shakespeare the greatest pessimist in the Anglo-American tradition for the utterance of 'we are stuff dreams are made of..'