A Myth

In CS Lewis' The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, a Faun has a book entitled Is Man A Myth? In Clifford Simak's City, a Dog has written a book entitled The Myth Of Man: a parallel worth recording. Fantastic fictions can show us ourselves from fantastic perspectives. In Poul Anderson's The Rebel Worlds, the tripartite Didonians with their inherited but dwindling memories struggle to recall their brief encounter with human beings:

"(Blurred, two legs, faceless...no, had they beaks?)"

-Poul Anderson, The Rebel Worlds IN Anderson, Young Flandry (Riverdale, NY, January 2010), pp. 367-520 AT p. 369.

"Be not afraid of the strangers with single bodies... Rather pity that race, who are not beasts but can think, and thus know that they will never know oneness." (p. 520)

On Dido, we are becoming a myth - although they understand us.