Those who survived the Ice Age
The groups who survived the brutal cold of the four repeated ice ages
were not the 'primitives who ran away.'
The ones who broke through hardship and evolved from beast to human were
the groups who stood their ground in a place where there were no trees even to sit under,
the groups who, once the tree fruits were gone, caught animals and filled their bellies with meat,
the groups who, instead of retreating after the sunlight, invented clothing and fire.
— Arnold Toynbee
"What decides whether a film is a success or a failure is the audience, and it happens not by them revealing tastes they already hold, but by them newly discovering what they actually like."
Franco Moretti, "The Slaughterhouse of Literature," World Literature, Summer 2001
