Every race has made its own myths and it is in these that early drama often finds an outlet. The author of Parsifal has recognized this and hence his work is solid as a rock.

In using the myth, in manipulating a continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity, Mr Joyce is pursuing a method which others must pursue after him … It is simply a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history.

The various stages of life have different inclinations, claims, tendencies of taste … It is probably a rule that in certain years the taste for all purely individual and particular phenomena, for the individual case … fades out gradually. Instead the typical, the eternally human, eternally recurring, timeless – in short, the mythical – steps into the foreground of interest.