“FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are asked to buy into. After that, you're dealing with very human ripple effects - how people deal with it and how they come to terms with it.” PeopleHumansShowsHappensLostTermDealsEffectsEventsMajorsMythologySci FiRippleRipple Effect Author:Sonya Walger
“Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.” ThinkingWorldPersonsRealDealsSituationTeachMythologyAriseTalesFairyReal WorldFairy TaleMultitudesAnalogiesExaggeratedBlueprintsDistillation Author:Charles de Lint
“It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really from Machen & Dunsany & others, rather than through the Bierce-Chambers line, that I picked up my gradually developing hash of theogony - or daimonogony. Come to think of it, I guess I sling this stuff more as Chambers does than as Machen & Dunsany do - though I had written a good deal of it before I ever suspected that Chambers ever wrote a weird story!” ThinkingDoeIdeasStoriesStuffLinesDealsWrittenMinesMythologyDevelopingChamberBad IdeasHash Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.” EndsOrderDealsSolutionsLegsMythologyMathematician Author:Daniel Tammet