...we would say that the updated vitality of the myth does not flow by way of a nostalgic recovery of its spectacular functions. Rather, it flows like a metaphor (perhaps forced, if with that we were not to get dangerously close to a statute of undesired belligerence) transgressed from the inalterable dimension of the sign. In fact, the myth is not so much the personalisation of a foundational attribute which is fixed in its solitary grandeur, but rather the opportunity it offers us of an infinite and audacious interpretative variant. The myth as an allegory transforms the concept of narrative rhetoric into appearance and image or, in other words, into perpetual reality which defines and extends itself without renouncing - in the obsessive manifestation of its presence - self-stimulation that keeps it eternally active and out of reach...




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