In both cases, certain victims, heroes, enemies and scapegoats were at the heart of the interpretation.
When those ancestral heroes and producers inhabit a geographically distant locale, objects and artisans (perhaps even styles) from that place assume a special significance.
The heroes of the new enterprise are the writers, many of whom individually contributed hundreds of articles.
They are sung and unsung heroes, (mostly) ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
There were no heroes or founding fathers to become the subject of later mythology.
With rebellion came the birth of a terrible beauty and, for the rebels, a rebirth as heroes and martyrs.
Why don't they get big arias that mark them as the true heroes of the story?
In his view, we all are heroes on an epic quest!
