TRTR Almost heroically, (Or actually boringly) I post more on The Hero post

[Mark Kohut]

and Joe Campbell brought the mythic meanings of the hero alive in our time in 
his work and re hero there is always that
tough critic of society, Brecht, who famously said "Pity the country that needs 
heroes" and from the wikipedia article on
The Hero from which the paragraph below is taken---which ARGUES in a scholarly 
article almost EXACTLY what Gaddis 

does on page 247(!!)......and from which article I learn that in the 
aforementioned Lord Raglan's book that he used Napolean to talk 

about non-mythic heroes which then reminded me of Pynchon's anti-charisma 
remarks. 

 
Pick it all up, someone.....
 
It has been suggested in an article by Roma Chatterji"[11] that the hero or more 
generally protagonist is first and foremost a symbolic representation of the 
person who is experiencing the story while reading, listening or watching; thus 
the relevance of the hero to the individual relies a great deal on how much 
similarity there is between the two. The most compelling[citation needed] reason 
for the hero-as-self interpretation of stories and myths is the human inability 
to view the world from any perspective but a personal one. The almost universal 
notion of the hero or protagonist and its resulting hero identification allows 
us to experience stories in the only[citation needed] way we know how: as 
ourselves.