There is an affect that comes before creativity and an affect that comes, if it comes at all, only afterwards.
The work of historians might be viewed as providing pinpricks of light in a great sea of darkness. The areas of light are those past events and periods of time that are well-understood and where other historians have travelled before.
I am theorising that the father's body is part of the necessary knowledge of an infant and a growing child. Furthermore, I suggest that fathering puts a man in touch with himself, and brings into being a heart which men sometimes feel they do not have.
One of the subtle mega-trends in American culture in the second half of the twentieth century has been UFOs and alien symbolism. Whether the early events centering around Roswell, New Mexico and such groups as Project Blue Book are true or not, what is a fact is that interest in aliens came onto the "radar screen" of American culture around the late 40s.
