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| | Elves, Wookies and Fanboys: Star Wars And Our Need For Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The great biblical faiths, Judaism and Christianity, also employed them, albeit with the added twist that their stories were grounded in history. |
 | | Narrative and stories, which by definition can’t be directly observed, were pushed aside in favor of a more "scientific" way of explaining the world around us: proposition and hypotheses. |
 | | And the story it told was a big one, filled with the themes that keep popping up throughout human history: good versus evil, freedom versus slavery, the eternal struggle between fathers and sons, and, ultimately, the story of one man’s redemption. |
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