Thread:PisceanWaterbender/@comment-33419273-20171117181402/@comment-30530552-20171121023106

I mean, since my paper is going to try to speak to the nature of fear as it relates to literature and the human condition, undoubtedly it's going to be long-winded. Only issue will be the nature of the question and the fact I can't fully speak to that level because of the scope I'm giving will be my main problems. But so far The sources have been pretty interesting.

Listened to one woman do a TED-Talk on how our fears are like stories, and true to it, the story she told as an example was very bittersweet.

Long story short, it's 1819, a whaling ship was capsized 3,000 miles from shore due to a sperm whale crashing into it (which inspired Moby Dick actually,) survivors on the 3 remaining boats were forced to make a decision: go 1,500 miles to Tahiti and the nearby isles with the rumored risk of being eaten by cannibalistic peoples, sail to Hawaii and face potentially horrific storms on the way, or go the long way due south, in the hope of catching winds to go back to South America, but probably die of starvation first. They gave into their fears, and chose to go the long way...the irony of it was that in their attempt to escape cannibals, less than half survived after the food ran out and they were rescued, and some resorted to their own forms of cannibalism to survive in the meantime...dark stuff.