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If you were to analyze our collective myths, stories, novels, films, etc., (and some have), you generally come up with around 5 major story types. These have been around for thousands of years, and yet they're still in current use. It's the details that change.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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