I understand that you’re trying to sandbox this reasoning to “mythic mode”, but the way you write about it in this post (while presumably not in mythic mode) makes it seem like the sandbox might be a bit leaky.
I was not, in fact, staying consistently outside of mythic mode when writing this post. I didn’t think what it was would convey well if I had.
Instead, I tried to weave in and out of it while highlighting signposts. When I talk about coincidences lining up and how one gets used to things like that while in mythic mode, or when I talk about seeing the gods… that’s operating mythically. When I then talk about how there’s an easy way of seeing how this could come from cherry-picking which things are significant, that’s outside of mythic mode.
I haven’t checked carefully, but I’m pretty sure I could insert <mythic> and </mythic> pseudo-HTML tags throughout the OP.
I was not, in fact, staying consistently outside of mythic mode when writing this post. I didn’t think what it was would convey well if I had.
Instead, I tried to weave in and out of it while highlighting signposts. When I talk about coincidences lining up and how one gets used to things like that while in mythic mode, or when I talk about seeing the gods… that’s operating mythically. When I then talk about how there’s an easy way of seeing how this could come from cherry-picking which things are significant, that’s outside of mythic mode.
I haven’t checked carefully, but I’m pretty sure I could insert <mythic> and </mythic> pseudo-HTML tags throughout the OP.