The Birth of the Hero

"You have to be somewhere where the world isn't drowning you out in order to understand how to open this," he says. "It's something that represents a transcendent ideal and that makes it manifest to you if you're quiet enough to listen" Japetto, who is just a carpenter and a toy maker, lives in an everyday house but everything that's happening there is good. The magical transformation can happen in the most mundane of places.