Yann Martel

Those were brought by poetry.

All that poetry that must have been there uttered at one point was lost.

So Harlow in these things detects these whispers that must have been there.

So that's why I say myth is malleable and plastic and relatable and inventable because surely it was there.

So he's lured by that and I'd say I would do that too.

It is so shut.

It is so shut.

When they do come, it's cute, but then I shut the door again.

Well, as I said earlier, because you make it your own.

That's the key thing.

You can't make history your own.

You could try to learn from it, but first of all, it's a huge task.

Like, I'll give a perfect example.

I mentioned all these dead white males, by the way.

That's what I was brought up on, these dead white males.

So, George Orwell, Animal Farm.

You could read, you know, a seven-tome history of modern Russia to understand what Stalin did to the Russian people, or you can read Animal Farm.

Mm-hmm.

You know, art has a wonderful way of extracting the reality of history and telling it in a delightful way.

So myth can do that.