ABSTRACT
All known performances and edifices of mind are ultimately rooted in human beings' fundamental sociality. The notion of a mind decontextualized from larger human culture and society cannot have any real meaning to people. Immediacy is something people cannot escape while alive; its hold on them is merely obscured by the illusion of distance created by the imaginative work carried out by their exceedingly powerful and ambitious human mental apparatuses. The escapist sense of safety nurtured by narratology provides an outlet for the human desire to indulge in trust. All literature is merely testimony to the fact that people share the common experience of hardship, joy, and everything in between on the path between birth and death. The Euro-romance is the story of Western civilization. It is the binding agent connecting the minds of its people to each other and their world.
