A look at the mythological roots of an inescapable cultural phenomenon. A new post on a new creature every other Wednesday.
We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe, but there is something in the dragon’s image that appeals to the human imagination, and so we find the dragon in quite distinct places and times. It is, so to speak, a necessary monster, not an ephemeral or accidental one…
Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings
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Amateur art historian and film and fiction writer; worked on the award-winning documentary Kusama: Infinity.