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Reading up on repeating history...the more things change...

"The condition of adventure is not development, but repetition, not coherence but illumination. The adventure story does not move principally from beginning to end, but from peak to peak, reflecting values different from that of the novel."

"The very notion that that freedom-the Enlightenment's cherished discovery-required a sort of voluntary imprisonment, was filled with incipient drama."

Time to get in the ring again...