Archetypes

“These archetypes – which is what myths are in essence – were created by people endowed with vigorous imaginations but feeble powers of reasoning. So they proved to be true poetic statements, which are feelings clothed in powerful passions, and thus filled with sublimity and arousing wonder. We further find that poetic expression springs from two sources: the poverty of language, and the need to explain and be understood.” – Giambattista Vico (1668-1744). 

Still,
In the dense and dark night which envelops remotest antiquity
There shines
An eternal and inextinguishable light
And under the shadow wing of influence,
The Investigators, a soul band:
Galileo Bacon Descartes Epicurus
Lucretius on sax

corso et ricorso

Four Horsemen ride
Metaphor, Synechdoche, Metonymy, Irony
Master Tropes of Rhetoric
Shape our apprehension of the world.