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And so we reached the end.

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You've made it, congratulations, all the
way through, I'll only detain you a couple

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more minutes, I wanted to have
a couple of concluding thoughts.

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Human beings like to tell stories,
that's obviously true.

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And the stories that they tell,
it's a also true,

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don't just float around in space, remember
the slide from our very first lecture.

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It's not as though there are demons and

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spirits out there that are going to
whoosh down the particular

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fully meaningful narrative that
we need to understand our lives.

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Instead, what we have is constructions
made by people for other people,

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and particular times as emblematized
here in our scene depicting our course.

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There are moments in history when people
make up great stories and those stick.

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And when they stick it's worth something.

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Hang onto these things and

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looking for deeper meanings
that are buried inside of them.

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Something that the ancients
themselves did and

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that we've been working on in our course.

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We've used our toolbox with our
functionalism, our structuralism,

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psychoanalysis, and myth in ritual trying
to dig at what makes these myths tick.

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Trying to get an understanding of
what happens in the stories and

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then also, some of the deeper senses
of what they're trying to convey.

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But our stories are indeed stories.

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They're great to hear.

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And my goal in teaching this course to
you has been to give you an excuse and

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give you a chance.

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Give you an encouragement as best I can to

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hang out with people at the beginning
of the course, much smarter than I am.

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You've spend some time with Homer, Hesiod,
Virgil, Vigil, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Ovid.

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[COUGH]
These are amazing figures with

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tremendous amounts of things to teach us.

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We've only scratched the surface here.

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I hope that that surface
scratching has made you itch and

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I hope that you itch for more.

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There is much more out there for you.

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So thanks very much for
spending the time with me and

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the teaching team here at Penn.

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We've had a great time with you and

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we look forward to further
communications with you in the future.

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Thanks again and best of luck
with your myths in the future.