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Nick Kotar - Art and a Unifying Vision

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The Greatest Story Has Already Been Telled

Greatest story is the fulfillment of all the stories that came before it. Tolkien argues for in his essay on fairy stories, where he says that all the myths were structured in the same way as the coming of Christ. And then everything that comes afterwards is necessarily a reflection of it because that's the one myth that happened in history. So every story I tell isn't, is potentially better because it's closer to the model or every act that I do is potentially good because it's close to the model.

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