[gmw]

I won't bother to explain why, but I happened to be researching a bit about Joseph Campbell and "A Hero's Journey" - specifically the book where he introduced the idea: "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". In the Wikipedia article for the book I found the following quote from Neil Gaiman:

I think I got about half way through The Hero with a Thousand Faces and found myself thinking if this is true—I don't want to know. I really would rather not know this stuff. I’d rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is.