If we could have gone back a few months and tried to explain how our world has changed since COVID-19, it would be hard to believe. In the historical scheme of things, human beings have suffered plagues before and come through.
So much of the anxiety we feel, longing for what we had, loneliness, all of it is difficult to get our minds around. For me, it has always been comforting seeing the push and pull of desire and its consequence (whether it has a moral or not) embodied in fables. Somehow being able to commune with an image that was only a momentary dream impression gives me solace.