What was it all for?

[davem]

Originally Posted by Raynor

So, I would say the myths represent to him a spiritual path, which redeems us; this may not be the same thing with Christianity, but I doubt that for him, God/Truth was any other than the biblical one.

Yeah - like I'm getting into that last one.....

You make two assumptions , though. First that of a 'spiritual path' & second of 'redemption'. Possibly. And yet non-religious folk who don't accept either of those things are affected by the work. He wanted to achieve something, felt driven to do it, as I said.

And back to the 'boredom' explanation, or that it was 'just a story' - the question I'd ask is, if it was all just for a story he wrote to avoid boredom, why has there been such a vociferous debate on his 'sources' - whatever the sources for something 'trivial' are they should not have inspired such ire on all sides. I suspect we all have a very deep sense that it is about something very important & very specific - if only in its effect on us - & we feel very annoyed when someone says its about something else...