Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Story is the lab by which we watch the great “what if”.

Achilles is Homer's "what if": what would it take to derail the greatest warrior of all time from not entering the arena? We watch stories to see the what if, and by watching we worship.

It is in the lab and temple we find our nature and our being, by analogy.