“Reason can be awake and beget monsters.
Extreme, fantastical, and insubstantial as they are, they materialise real desires and fears, they embody meaning at a deep, psychic level.
We’re living in a new age of faith of sorts, of myth-making, of monsters, of chimeras.”

Warner, M. Managing monsters: six myths of our time: the 1994 Reith Lectures. London: Vintage, 1994 p.20