![]() ![]() I feel that monsters are here in our world to help us understand it. ![]() Werewolves, vampires, ogres, this and that. The sex drive, the need to hunt, the need to kill, these things then became personified in monsters. All those impulses that we were repressing: cannibalism, murder, these things needed an explanation. The rain and the thunder were logical now. And as we became more and more sophisticated and created sort of a social structure, the real enigmas started not to be outside. ![]() And we invented creatures that made sense of the world: a serpent that ate the sun, a creature that ate the moon, a man in the moon living there, things like that. The Night Eternal (Strain Trilogy 3) Hogan, Chuck,del Toro, Guillermo Published by HarperCollins(2011) ISBN 10: 0007319525ISBN 13: 9780007319527 UsedHardcoverQuantity: 1 Seller: WeBuyBooks (Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Hardcover. And I believe that monsters originally, when we were cavemen and you know, sitting around a fire, we needed to explain the birth of the sun and the death of the moon and the phases of the moon and rain and thunder. “In fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not only a problem we need to overcome, but also they need to represent, much like angels represent the beautiful, pure, eternal side of the human spirit, monsters need to represent a more tangible, more mortal side of being human: aging, decay, darkness and so forth. ![]()
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