Stale Detective Work

So I have had an extremely hard time lately to find some sort of inspiration to blog about. I have been thinking that I must be the worst Mythic Detective alive. Nothing has really popped out at me that seems very mythic, or mythological in nature.

 So I am an avid reader and I was finishing a book last night and a line jumped out at me and made me think that maybe, I have just been passing by all these little clues and I should pay more attention.
The context of the line is that two characters are talking about stories, and one says that all stories intertwine, and that good and evil are more complex than a princess and a dragon, because the dragon has its own stories that make the dragon who it is. The other then counters that there must then be no simple stories, which led to this passage
"That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed their nuances, made them more than story, greater than the sums of their parts. But that requires time. The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are."

This was they book I finished if anyone is interested

This really hit me because I was thinking of Ovid and how I have read and reread these tales and they are so familiar, but that every time I read them again I learn new things and see new perspectives in the pages. The line about the truest tales (myths!) require time and familiarity to become what they are, was just what I needed to hear. This was the mythic universe telling me I needed time and familiarity to interpret the world around me as myth. So with that in mind I returned to my detective work. Which I will continue on another blog, because it has its own seperate kind of them.