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and you and I sat surrounded by broken glass, smoking these cigars and drinking Guinness, do you remember? At the top of Grafton Street. And the thing you said, and I agreed with, you said, you know, myth and story is just the best way to talk about almost everything. It’s the Indigenous way to talk about everything. It’s the classical way to talk about everything. It’s the Arthurian way. It’s the Irish way. It’s the Russian way. It’s the Aboriginal way. It’s what we’ve always done. There’s a very old notion I’m interested in, which is human beings get made. It’s actually a process. And if you don’t have connection to stories, rather like a cloak, then you are prone to enormous floods of anxiety as you get older. As you experience the duress of life, despite all the gadgetry, if we don’t have this very ancient technology called a story close to hand, we’re un-equipped in some way.