George W. M. Reynolds

But it is interesting that he was thinking about this sort of the central unconsciousness, the unconscious of a society and what stories, what images, what characters would be useful for that.

society in any one moment and what as soon as you have that there must be images that aren't you know as soon as um apparently when uh world war in the blitz period of world war ii in the uk there was lots of retellings of um uh sort of the dragon slaying uh myth you know saint george and the dragon everyone's interest in saint george got really hepped up at that time

The story just goes in at a deeper level.

It kind of like bypasses your conscious thinking and goes in somewhere.